Sehaj Singh
I'm an independent researcher working on provably stable control for physical systems. My work sits between control theory and neural-network verification: building learned controllers whose stability is guaranteed by a formal proof over a region, not inferred from testing, and making those proofs scale to systems large enough to matter.
Most of my current work is on the power grid, in collaboration with Prof. Wenqi Cui's group at NYU Tandon ECE, where I'm extending her published work on neural Lyapunov stability with formal certification. I'm interested in whether the techniques that make high-dimensional stability certificates tractable carry over to other cyber-physical systems and to the stability of learned systems more broadly.
Research collaborator, Cui Group, NYU Tandon ECE  ·  paper in progress
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Selected work
2026 · with Prof. W. Cui
Instead of repairing a learned stability certificate after the fact, the network is trained to be verifiable by construction, by differentiating through the CROWN verification bound and making the size of the certified region part of the training objective. On the lossy 39-bus swing model it certifies a larger region than the prior counterexample-guided method (ρ=2.5 vs 1.8) at the same rate, verified three independent ways with zero soundness contradictions, and scales cleanly from a 2-D to a 4-D slice. The open question is how far it climbs toward the full grid state before the verification cost walls out.
A learned Lyapunov function can satisfy its stability condition on 99.98% of sampled states and still fail a formal verifier, because a proof quantifies over an entire region while sampling only ever visits a measure-zero subset. This work shows that gap concretely, 200,000 random samples find no violation where a directed search finds them 6.1% of the time, and closes it with counterexample-guided verification cross-checked three ways (CROWN, Jacobian bound propagation, and dReal SMT). It extends Cui and Zhang's 2022 work on the exact open problem their paper names.
Power-systems modeling — grid infrastructure
ongoing
Build and run power-flow simulations for grid infrastructure design, gathering and analyzing the simulation data and producing engineering reports that inform decisions such as line selection and routing. Work conducted under confidentiality, described here at the level of capability rather than client detail.
Research Intern — data-center grid infrastructure
2025–Present
Researching power-distribution bottlenecks and grid strain driven by the exponential compute demand of large-scale data centers. Role and findings held under confidentiality.
Stability-constrained neural adaptive control
2025–26
A bounded radial-basis network inside a Lyapunov-derived adaptive update law, so the closed loop stays uniformly ultimately bounded under contact drift while the adaptation gain runs high enough to recover fast. Tested across MuJoCo environments including a real manipulation benchmark on a UR5e arm.
Operator — switched-certificate control under wear
2026
A geometry-first neural controller for systems that degrade over time, where stability is enforced by an input-convex Lyapunov certificate and the certificate switches by which physics dominates the dynamics. Grounding the wear model in real run-to-failure degradation data surfaced a sudden terminal-knee failure that a gradual model cannot produce, and the switched certificate holds through it where a fixed controller has no equivalent guarantee.
Semifinalist, MIT competition.
Collaboration — Antioch (robotics simulation)
2025–26
Collaborator with Antioch, an early-stage robotics-simulation startup, on control and stability for simulated physical systems.
Contact
OpenReview   Sehaj Randhir Singh