Yoav Sharon

Recent Work Experience

Senior Manager, S&C Electric Company, Chicago, IL, 2024–Current

Manager, S&C Electric Company, Chicago, IL, 2016–2024

Project Engineer, S&C Electric Company, Chicago, IL, 2013–2016

Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2011–2012

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010
Thesis advisers: Daniel Liberzon and Yi Ma

M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, 2005
summa cum laude
Thesis adviser: Michael Margaliot

B.Sc. in Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1999
magna cum laude

Refereed Publications

Journals

• Y. Sharon, A. Annaswamy, A. Motto, and A. Chakraborty, “Adaptive Control for Regulation of a Quadratic Function of the State,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 59(10), pp. 2831 - 2836, 2014
• Y. Sharon and D. Liberzon, “Input-to-state stabilizing controller for systems with coarse quantization,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 57(4), pp. 830-844, 2012
• Y. Sharon and M. Margaliot, “Third-order nilpotency, nice reachability and asymptotic stability,” Journal of Differential Equations, vol. 233, pp. 136-150, 2007

Proceedings

• Y. Sharon, A. Montenegro, A. Gardner, and M. G. Ennis, “New Directional Protection for Distribution Networks,” in Proc. 2015 IEEE PES General Meeting, 2015
• Y. Sharon, A. M. Annaswamy, and A. L. Motto, “Network-Constrained Adaptive Control with a Nonlinear Tracking Function,” in Proc. 6th Int. Conf. on Network Games, Control and Optimization, 2012
• Y. Sharon, A. M. Annaswamy, A. L. Motto, and A. Chakraborty, “Topology Identification in distribution network with limited measurements,” in Proc. 2012 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, 2012
• G. Tran, A. Kiani, A. Annaswamy, Y. Sharon, A. L. Motto, and A. Chakraborty, “Necessary and sufficient conditions for observability in power systems,” in Proc. 2012 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, 2012
• Y. Sharon, D. Liberzon, and Y. Ma, “Adaptive control using quantized measurements with application to vision-only landing control,” in Proc. 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 2511-2516, 2010
• Y. Sharon and D. Liberzon, “Stabilization of linear systems under coarse quantization and time Delays,” in Proc. 2nd IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, 2010
• Y. Sharon, J. Wright, and Y. Ma, “Minimum sum of distances estimator: Robustness and stability,” in Proc. 2009 American Control Conference, pp. 524-530, 2009
• Y. Sharon and D. Liberzon, “Input-to-state stabilization with quantized output feedback,” in Proc. 11th International Workshop on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control,
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4981, pp. 500-513, 2008
• Y. Sharon and D. Liberzon, “Input-to-state stabilization with minimum number of quantization regions,” in Proc. 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 20-25, 2007
• Y. Sharon and M. Margaliot, “Third-order nilpotency, finite switchings and asymptotic stability,” in Proc. 44th IEEE Conference in Decision and Control, CDC-ECC '05, pp. 5415-5420, 2005

Patents

• M. Ennis, A. Gardner, A. Montenegro, Y. Sharon,
  “Fault Detection and Direction Determination,”
  U.S. Patent 10,247,767, 2016

• Y. Sharon, A. Annaswamy, A. Motto, and A. Chakraborty,
  “Topology identification in distribution network with limited measurements,”
  U.S. Patent 9,287,713, 2013

• B. Heisele and Y. Sharon,
  “Creating a model tree using group tokens for identifying objects in an image,”
  U.S. Patent 7,680,748, 2007
  U.S. Patent 8,676,733, 2010

Invited Talks

• University of Chicago Computer Science Department, “Multi Agent Systems in Power Distribution Networks – Introduction, Recent Innovations, and Open Challenges,” Nov 2016
  

Conference Reports

• K. Barton, N. Jain, S. Mastellone, Y. Sharon and S. Sundaram,
  “Symposium on Control and Modeling of Alternative Energy Systems [Conference Reports],” IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 30 (1), pp. 87-89, 2010

Additional Experience

Project Manager, Israeli Air Force, 2000–2005

Summer Intern, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, 2007

Summer Intern, Honda Research Institute, Boston, MA, 2005