RAIN Lab

Education

• Ph.D. Candidate in Aeronautics & Astronautics, University of Washington (present)
• M.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Washington (present)
• M.Eng. in Research, University of Sydney (2008)
• B.Eng. in Aeronautical (Space), University of Sydney (2006)
• B.Sc. in Adv. Mathematics and Physics, University of Sydney (2006)

Research Interests

• Networked Dynamic Systems
• Multi-agent Systems
• Control Theory
• Graph Theory
• Network Security
• Semi-Autonomous Networks
• Advection on Graphs
• Network Controllability

Journals and Book Chapters

• Airlie Chapman, Marzieh Nabi-Abdolyousefi and Mehran Mesbahi (2013) "Controllability and Observability of Network-of-Networks via Cartesian Products". In IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. (submitted)
• Airlie Chapman and Mehran Mesbahi (2013) "Security and Infiltration of Networks: A Structural Controllability and Observability Perspective". In Springer's Lecture Notes on Control and Information Sciences. (to appear)
• Airlie Chapman and Mehran Mesbahi (2013) "UAV Swarms: Models and Effective Interfaces". In Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Springer. (to appear)
• Airlie Chapman and Mehran Mesbahi (2013) Semi-Autonomous Consensus: Network Measures and Adaptive Trees, 19-31. In IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 58 (1).
• Airlie Chapman and Mehran Mesbahi (2012) System Theoretic Aspects of Influenced Consensus: Single Input Case, 1505-1511. In IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 57 (6).
• Peter Domachuk, Airlie Chapman, Eric Magi, Michael J. Steel, Hong C. Hguyen, and Benjamin J. Eggleton (2005) "Transverse characterization of high air-fill fraction tapered photonic crystal fiber", 3885-92. In Applied Optics 44 (19).

Conferences

• Airlie Chapman, Eric Schoof and Mehran Mesbahi (2013) "Distributed Online Topology Design for Disturbance Rejection". In Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. (submitted)
• Saghar Hosseini, Airlie Chapman and Mehran Mesbahi (2013) "Online Distributed Optimization via Dual Averaging". In Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. (submitted)
• Airlie Chapman and Mehran Mesbahi (2013) "Strong Structural Controllability of Networked Dynamics". In Proc. of the American Control Conference. (accepted)
• Airlie Chapman, Marzieh Nabi-Abdolyousefi and Mehran Mesbahi (2012) Controllability and Observability of Cartesian Product Networks, 80-85. In Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. (Invited Paper)
• Airlie Chapman, Eric Schoof and Mehran Mesbahi (2012) Advection on Networks with an Application to Decentralized Load Balancing, 2680-2681. In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
• Airlie Chapman and Mehran Mesbahi (2012) Cartesian products of Z-Matrix networks: Factorization and interval analysis. In 20th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems.
• Airlie Chapman and Mehran Mesbahi (2012) Stability Analysis of Nonlinear Networks via M-matrix Theory: Beyond Linear Consensus, 6626-6631. In Proc. of the American Control Conference.
• Airlie Chapman and Mehran Mesbahi (2011) Advection on Graphs, 1461-1466. In Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
• Airlie Chapman, Ran Dai and Mehran Mesbahi (2011) Network Topology Design for UAV Flocking with Wind Gusts. In Proc. of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference.
• Airlie Chapman and Mehran Mesbahi (2011) UAV Flocking with Wind Gusts: Adaptive Topology and Model Reduction, 1045-1050. In Proc. of the American Control Conference. (Best session presentation award)
• Airlie Chapman and Mehran Mesbahi (2010) Semi-Autonomous Networks: Network Resilience and Adaptive Trees, 7473-7478. In Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. (Invited Paper)
• Airlie Chapman, Eric Schoof and Mehran Mesbahi (2010) Semi-Autonomous Networks: Theory and Decentralized Protocols, 1958-1963. In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
• Airlie Chapman, Marzieh Nabi-Abdolyousefi and Mehran Mesbahi (2009) Identification and Infiltration in Consensus-type Networks, 84-89. In 1st IFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems. (Finalist for the best student paper award)
• Airlie Chapman and Salah Sukkarieh (2009) A protocol for decentralized multi-vehicle mapping with limited communication connectivity, 357-362. In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
• Peter Domachuk, Airlie Chapman, Eric Magi, Michael J. Steel, Hong C. Hguyen, and Benjamin J. Eggleton (2005) "Tapered High-Fill Photonic Crystal Fiber", 692-694. In Proc. of the Conference on Lasers & Electro-Optics.

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Selected Awards

• College of Engineering Dean's Fellowship (2012-2013)
• IROS Student Travel Award (2012)
• Graduate School Fund for Excellence and Innovation (GSFEI) Graduate Student Travel Award (2011,2012)
• Amelia Earhart Fellowship (2010-2011,2011-2012)
• CDC-ECC Student Travel Award (2011)
• Best Session Presentation Award, American Control Conference (2011)
• Kambala Leadership Scholarship (2011)
• ACC Student Travel Award (2011, 2012)
• Clarimont L. Egtvedt Fellowship, University of Washington (2010-2011)
• Outstanding Female Engineer Award, University of Washington (2010)
• Best Student Paper Finalist, 1st IFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems (2009)
• Andris Vagners Memorial Fellowship, University of Washington (2008-2009)
• Australian Postgraduate Award (2007-2008)
• University of Sydney Merit Scholarship (2002-2006)