The 2026 ACC is pleased to announce the Student Best Paper Award. First-listed authors of regular or invited papers who were students at the time of submission were eligible. 

Please contact Matthew Hale (matthale@gatech.edu) with any questions.

Date: Wednesday May 27

Time: 10:30 am - 12 pm

Location: Churchill B1 (Level 2)

Shaurya Shrivastava: Chance-Constrained Covariance Steering for Discrete-Time Markov Jump Linear Systems

Nishida, Kunihisa Okano: Event-Based Control via Sparsity-Promoting Regularization: A Rollout Approach with Performance Guarantees

Yuto Watanabe: Policy Optimization in Robust Control: Weak Convexity and Subgradient Methods 

Yingxuan Guo: Raceline-Informed Envelope Model Predictive Control for Autonomous Racing

Michael Tang: A Lyapunov-Based Small-Gain Theorem for Fixed-Time Stability

Kriti Verma: Homogeneous Approximations and Fixed Time Semistability with Applications to Network Consensus