Zhang Liu

Ph.D. Candidate (Finish in 2009) Field: Control Systems and Operation Research Electrical Engineering Department University of California, Los Angeles Advisor: Professor Lieven Vandenberghe Navigation Engineer Aerospace Systems Northrop Grumman Corporation

Contact information

Northrop Grumman Corporation
RB3 2-B-04
P.O. Box 509066
San Diego, CA 92150

Phone: (858) 618-3729
Email: zhang@ee.ucla.edu
Homepage: http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~zhang/

Publications

Semidefinite programming methods for system realization and identification

Z. Liu and L. Vandenberghe
Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2009 (To appear)

Interior-point method for nuclear norm approximation with application to system identification

Z. Liu and L. Vandenberghe
SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 31(3):1235-1256, 2009

Low-rank structure in semidefinite programs derived from the KYP lemma

Z. Liu and L. Vandenberghe
Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pages 5652-5659, 2007

Software

• NucNrmApp: Python package for nuclear norm approximation

• gKYPSDP: Matlab package for generalized KYP-SDPs