Ben Wooding
I am an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow in the School of Computing at Newcastle University. I am researching a project titled “Reliable AI-Enabled Design of Cyber-Physical Systems”.
My PhD thesis was “Model-Based and Data-Driven Formal Synthesis of Power Systems” supervised by Dr Sadegh Soudjani, funded by an EPSRC Studentship. My research focused on the intersection of formal methods in computer science and control theory, applied to power system primary frequency regulation.
In 2019, I completed an integrated Masters degree in Computer Science (Security and Resilience) with 1st Class Honours also at Newcastle University. For the project and dissertation, I received 92%.
I have contributed to the international academic community with published works, conference presentations, program committee memberships, and paper reviews. Published works of particular note are conference works at European Control Conference (ECC), Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS), Quantitative Evaluation of Systems and Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems (QEST+FORMATS), Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC), and a work in the Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems (NAHS) journal. I contributed two chapters to the book Active Building Energy Systems: Operation and Control.
At Newcastle University, I have been the chair of AMBER, given multiple internal research presentations, and assisted widely by teaching as a demonstrator and with marking. I have experience with supervising PhD, MSc and BSc student projects. Alongside these, I have previously led the team for research communication and dissemination for the HyCoDeV Lab.
I am an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow in the School of Computing at Newcastle University. I am researching a project titled “Reliable AI-Enabled Design of Cyber-Physical Systems”.
My PhD thesis was “Model-Based and Data-Driven Formal Synthesis of Power Systems” supervised by Dr Sadegh Soudjani, funded by an EPSRC Studentship. My research focused on the intersection of formal methods in computer science and control theory, applied to power system primary frequency regulation.
In 2019, I completed an integrated Masters degree in Computer Science (Security and Resilience) with 1st Class Honours also at Newcastle University. For the project and dissertation, I received 92%.
I have contributed to the international academic community with published works, conference presentations, program committee memberships, and paper reviews. Published works of particular note are conference works at European Control Conference (ECC), Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS), Quantitative Evaluation of Systems and Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems (QEST+FORMATS), Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC), and a work in the Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems (NAHS) journal. I contributed two chapters to the book Active Building Energy Systems: Operation and Control.
At Newcastle University, I have been the chair of AMBER, given multiple internal research presentations, and assisted widely by teaching as a demonstrator and with marking. I have experience with supervising PhD, MSc and BSc student projects. Alongside these, I have previously led the team for research communication and dissemination for the HyCoDeV Lab.
Google Scholar API
A collection of my recent publications have been scraped from Google Scholar below:
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IMPaCT: Interval MDP Parallel Construction for Controller Synthesis of Large-Scale STochastic Systems
B Wooding, A Lavaei International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems and Formal …, 2024 |
1 | 2024 |
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IMPaCT: A Parallelized Software Tool for IMDP Construction and Controller Synthesis with Convergence Guarantees
B Wooding, A Lavaei Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems …, 2024 |
1 | 2024 |
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Data-driven abstraction-based control synthesis
M Kazemi, R Majumdar, M Salamati, S Soudjani, B Wooding Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems 52, 101467, 2024 |
30 | 2024 |
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PRoTECT: Parallelized Construction of Safety Barrier Certificates for Nonlinear Polynomial Systems
B Wooding, V Horbanov, A Lavaei arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.14804, 2024 |
3 | 2024 |
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Data-Driven Abstractions via Binary-Tree Gaussian Processes for Formal Verification
O Schön, S Naseer, B Wooding, S Soudjani IFAC-PapersOnLine 58 (11), 115-122, 2024 |
2024 | |
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Formal Control of New England 39-Bus Test System: An Assume-Guarantee Approach
B Wooding, A Lavaei, S Soudjani arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.03467, 2023 |
3 | 2023 |
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Robust simulation functions with disturbance refinement
B Wooding, A Lavaei, V Vahidinasab, S Soudjani 2023 European Control Conference (ECC), 1-6, 2023 |
4 | 2023 |
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Model-Based and Data-Driven Formal Synthesis of Power Systems
B Wooding Newcastle University, 2023 |
2023 | |
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Control and management of active buildings
B Wooding, V Vahidinasab, M Kazemi, S Soudjani Active Building Energy Systems: Operation and Control, 161-192, 2021 |
2 | 2021 |
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Operation and control of a population of active buildings at network level
B Wooding, V Vahidinasab, S Soudjani Active Building Energy Systems: Operation and Control, 193-218, 2021 |
3 | 2021 |
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Tuning Robotti: the machine-assisted exploration of parameter spaces in multi-models of a cyber-physical system
S Bogomolov, J Fitzgerald, FF Foldager, C Gamble, PG Larsen, K Pierce, … Proceedings of the 18th International Overture Workshop, 50-64, 2021 |
6 | 2021 |
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ARCH-COMP20 Category Report: Stochastic Models.
A Abate, HAP Blom, N Cauchi, J Delicaris, A Hartmanns, M Khaled, … ARCH, 76-106, 2020 |
15 | 2020 |
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Formal Controller Synthesis for Frequency Regulation Utilising Electric Vehicles
B Wooding, V Vahidinasab, S Soudjani 2020 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST …, 2020 |
10 | 2020 |
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Using formal methods and proof to verify a cando epilepsy medical device
B Wooding Master’s thesis, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University UK, 2019 |
3 | 2019 |