Current Courses

CSE2410 - Introduction to Software Engineering

Selected Publications

• Tyler Hanks, Cristian Nino, Joana Bou Barcelo, Austin Copeland, Warren Dixon, and James Fairbanks. “Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Multi-Target Tracking using Cellular Sheaves.” 2026 European Control Conference (ECC), 2026.
• Tyler Hanks, Yichen Zhao, Hans Riess, Samuel Cohen, Matthew Hale, and James Fairbanks. “Asynchronous Nonlinear Sheaf Diffusion for Multi-Agent Coordination.” 2026 American Control Conference (ACC), 2026.
• Tyler Hanks, Hans Riess, Samuel Cohen, Trevor Gross, Matthew Hale, and James Fairbanks. “Distributed Multi-agent Coordination over Cellular Sheaves.” 2025 64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2025.
• Tyler Hanks, James Fairbanks, and Matthew Klawonn. “Generalized Gradient Descent is a Hypergraph Functor.” Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Applied Category Theory (ACT), 2024.
• Tyler Hanks, Baike She, Evan Patterson, Matthew Hale, Matthew Klawonn, and James Fairbanks. “Modeling Model Predictive Control: A Category Theoretic Framework for Multistage Control Problems.” 2024 American Control Conference (ACC), 2024.
• Kristopher Brown, Evan Patterson, Tyler Hanks, and James Fairbanks. “Computational Category-Theoretic Rewriting.” Graph Transformation: 15th International Conference, ICGT, 2022.

Recognition & Awards

• EASST Best Software Science Paper Award for “Computational Category-Theoretic Rewriting”
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recipient