Keyan Miao

About Me

I’m currently a DPhil candidate in the Department of Engineering Science at University of Oxford , as a member of the Control Engineering Group, under the supervision of Prof. Antonis Papachristodoulou and Dr. Konstantinos Gatsis. My research involves connecting Control and Machine Learning.

Prior to joining the DPhil program, I obtained my master’s degree in Control Systems from Imperial College London , under the supervision of Professor Richard Vinter, and my BEng degree in Detection, Guidance and Control from Northwestern Polytechnical University.

Outside of academia, I am a violinist at Hertford College Orchestra.

[Dec. 2023] Received NeurIPs Travel Grant funded by G-Research.
[Nov. 2023] Paper Towards Optimal Network Depths: Control-Inspired Acceleration of Training and Inference in Neural ODEs accepted by The Symbiosis of Deep Learning and Differential Equations DLDE III, NeurIPS 2023 Workshop.
[Jun. 2023] Attended The 5th Annual Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US.
[Mar. 2023] Paper Learning Robust State Observers using Neural ODEs published on Proceedings of Machine Learning Research.
[Oct. 2021] Joined University of Oxford with Research Studentship and Oxford-Ashton Memorial Graduate Scholarship.
[Jul. 2021] Paper Optimal control of a growth/consumption model published on Journal of Optimal Control Applications and Methods.
[Nov. 2020] Graduated from Imperial College London with Outstanding Achievement: Control Systems MSc & Hertha Ayrton Centenary Prize(Best Project) for best performance in the programme (ranking 1st) and project with significant original contribution to the topic area.