My name is Jake Buzhardt, and I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working with Prof. Michael D. Graham.

I completed my PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2023 at Clemson University, where I worked with Phanindra Tallapragada in the Applied Dynamical Systems Lab.

Broadly, my research interests are the modeling and control of nonlinear dynamical systems. My current work is focused on data-driven methods for reduced order modeling in fluid dynamics applications. During my PhD, I worked on applications such as the control of groups of interacting microswimming robots and the control of offroad vehicles. Within these contexts, I have studied problems of data-driven and uncertainty-aware control, parameter estimation, trajectory optimization, and deep reinforcement learning I am also particularly interested in data-driven modeling and control strategies based on finite dimensional approximations of the Koopman and Perron-Frobenius operators.

The best way to reach me is by email:

• jbuzhar[at]gmail.com
• buzhardt[at]wisc.edu