Jihun Kim: Pioneering Resilient Control Systems
- Miguel Virgen, PhD Student in Business
- Dec 16, 2025
- 4 min read
PhD student Jihun Kim of UC Berkeley’s Industrial Engineering & Operations Research department, alongside his advisor Professor Javad Lavaei, has earned recognition as a Best Student Paper finalist at the 2025 American Control Conference (ACC). Their paper, “Prevailing Against Adversarial Noncentral Disturbances: Exact Recovery of Linear Systems with the $l_1$-Norm Estimator,” was selected as one of the top six submissions out of roughly 1,000 accepted each year. ACC is a premier annual forum for control systems engineering that convenes a global community of researchers and practitioners (a2c2.org). In this work, Kim and Lavaei tackle a fundamental challenge: how to accurately learn a linear system’s dynamics in the presence of adversarial disturbances (ieor.berkeley.edu). Such resilient learning techniques could improve the reliability of modern engineered systems, including autonomous vehicles and smart power grids (ieor.berkeley.edu). For context, ACC 2025 is expected to host roughly 1,300 participants (a2c2.org), underscoring the broad visibility of Kim’s research.
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