Boya Hou

I am a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Prior to this, I received my Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UIUC and B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University.

Selected Publications:

⭐ Nonparametric Sparse Online Learning of the Koopman Operator

Minor Revision at SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON) Preprint
B. Hou, S. Sanjari, N. Dahlin, A. Koppel, S. Bose

⭐ Sparse Learning of Dynamical Systems in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space: An Operator-Theoretic Approach

Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023 download
B. Hou, S. Sanjari, N. Dahlin, S. Bose, U. Vaidya

📄 Data-Driven Transient Stability Analysis Using the Koopman Operator

International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, 2024 download
A. Reddy Ramapuram Matavalam, B. Hou, H. Choi, S. Bose, U. Vaidya

📄 Compressed Decentralized Learning of Conditional Mean Embedding Operators in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space

Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023 download
B. Hou, S. Sanjari, N. Dahlin, S. Bose

📄 A Behavioral Framework for Data-Driven Modeling of Nonlinear Systems in Vector-Valued Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces

B. Hou, M. Raginsky
Preprint

Selected Awards

  • Best Poster Award, Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC), 2024
  • Rising Stars in EECS, 2023
  • M.A.Pai Scholarship, 2023
  • Mavis Future Faculty Fellows (MF3), 2023-2024

Fun

Outside of mathematics and engineering, I pursue my passion for dancing. I performed contemporary ballet and dance of the Han-Tang dynasties (a subcategory of Classical Chinese Dance) with the Champaign Park District and Zhejiang Wenqin Art Troupe.

View rehearsal photos