Makhin Thitsa

Dr. Makhin Thitsa is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mercer University in Macon, GA, where she directs the Cyber-physical Systems and Control Laboratory. She received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2005, her M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2008, and her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2011, all from Old Dominion University. Numerous students who have trained in her research lab have won prestigious research awards such as the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, NSF-GRFP and NDSEG graduate fellowships. She is a recipient of 2023 Mike McCarthy mentorship award. Her research interests include nonlinear systems and control theory, non-smooth control and optimization, control over wireless networks, model-free control, and data-driven control strategies. She has successfully applied control methods to photonic devices, unmanned aerial vehicles, and traffic flow networks.