Anastasia Bizyaeva

Assistant Professor

Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Upson 321

Biography

Dr. Bizyaeva joined the Cornell MAE faculty as an assistant professor in July 2024. Prior to this, she was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the AI Institute in Dynamic Systems at the University of Washington. She received her Ph.D. in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University in September 2022 and her B.A. in physics with a minor in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2016.

Research Interests

Dr. Bizyaeva’s research program at Cornell explores mathematical connections between collectively intelligent behavior in biological and social systems, and the design of autonomous and artificially intelligent behaviors in engineered teams. Drawing on Dr. Bizyaeva’s expertise in dynamical systems, control theory, and data-driven modeling, some of the complementary directions explored in her group include development of new data-driven and first-principles approaches for modeling complex systems, development of new approaches to multi-agent control and swarm autonomy that combine biological inspiration with mathematical rigor, and analysis of machine learning algorithms through the lens of dynamical systems and control theory. She leads a highly interdisciplinary research program, frequently engaging in collaborations with experts from a broad variety of disciplines including biology, social psychology, and robotics. She is also an affiliate faculty member with the Cornell Scientific Artificial Intelligence Center.

Selected Publications

Bizyaeva, A., Franci, A., & Leonard, N. E. (2023). Nonlinear opinion dynamics with tunable sensitivity. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 68(3), 1415-1430.
Bizyaeva, A., Franci, A., & Leonard, N. E. (2023). Multi-topic belief formation through bifurcations over signed social networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.02755.
Leonard, N. E., Bizyaeva, A., & Franci, A. (2024). Fast and flexible multiagent decision-making. Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, 7.
Musslick, S., & Bizyaeva, A. (2024). Examining cognitive flexibility and stability through the lens of dynamical systems. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 57.
Leonard, N. E., Lipsitz, K., Bizyaeva, A., Franci, A., & Lelkes, Y. (2021). The nonlinear feedback dynamics of asymmetric political polarization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(50).

Selected Awards and Honors

Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science Award for Excellence, 2021
Larisse Rosentweig Klein Memorial Prize, Princeton University, 2019
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2019
Howard Crathorne Phillips Fellowship in Mechanical Engineering, Princeton University, 2018
Gordon Y.S. Wu Fellowship in Engineering, Princeton University, 2017

Education