UC San Diego Electrical Computing and Engineering assistant professor, Yuanyuan Shi, was recently awarded a 2025 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, which will provide five years of funding to support her  research in performance-guaranteed learning and control for real-world energy systems.  

The National Science Foundation CAREER award not only supports junior faculty with a federal grant for five consecutive years, it also fosters innovative developments in science and technology, giving recognition to the scientific missions of the awardees. This prestigious award is given to those at the forefront of science and technology and who demonstrate scientific leadership in their community.

Yuanyuan Shi's research focuses on machine learning, dynamical systems and control, with applications to sustainable energy systems and PDE- governed systems. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), masters in ECE and Statistics, all from the University of Washington, in 2020. From 2020 to 2021, she was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech. Previously, she received the Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellowship in 2024 and Hellman Fellowship in 2023.