Brendon G. Anderson

Brendon G. Anderson 

Brendon G. Anderson

Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering Department
California Polytechnic State University
Email: bga (at) calpoly.edu
Office: 13-224

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I am currently looking for undergraduate and graduate students to join my research projects. Highly motivated students with strengths in mathematics and computer programming are especially encouraged to reach out. Students from outside of Mechanical Engineering are also welcome, as my research is inherently cross-disciplinary. If you are interested in learning more, please email me!

About

I am interested in the development and analysis of safe and reliable computational methods by applying rigorous mathematics to interdisciplinary problems in the areas of machine learning, optimization, control theory, and game theory. My latest projects surround provable safety for neural networks using robust optimization theory, stability guarantees for infinite-dimensional evolutionary games using functional analysis, and robust control of distributed systems using optimal transport theory. I encourage you to look at my publications for more details.

Fun fact: I have an Erdős number of \(3\) (Paul Erdős \(\sim\) Fan Chung \(\sim\) Andrea L. Bertozzi \(\sim\) Brendon G. Anderson).

News

  • April 2025: Applications for Cal Poly College of Engineering's Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) are now open, and are due May 2nd! I will be leading the SURP project “AI Under Attack: Building Certifiably Safe Machine Learning Systems through Input-Dependent Randomized Smoothing.”

  • December 2, 2024: I was featured in a Cal Poly College of Engineering Faculty Spotlight interview.

  • October 22, 2024: I am giving a talk in the Cal Poly Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar series (ME 563): ‘‘Provably robust machine learning through structure-aware computation.’’