Jason Poon
Jason Poon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in EECS from UC Berkeley in 2015 and 2019, respectively, and the B.S. degree in ECE from Olin College of Engineering in 2012. He was a postdoc in the EE Department at Stanford from 2019 to 2021. His research interests span the domains of analog computing, optimization, and power systems. Dr. Poon is the recipient of the 2019 EERE Postdoctoral Research Award and the Best Paper Award at the 2016 IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics for his work on distributed fault-tolerant power electronics. Prior to joining Cal Poly, Dr. Poon was a Visiting Scholar and Instructor in the EE Department at Stanford and an affiliate researcher in the Energy Technologies Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
News
4/21/2026Our group's latest work, Automated Synthesis of Hardware-implementable Analog Circuits for Constrained Optimization, is now available as a preprint on arXiv. This is joint work with Sachin Khoja, Kamlesh Sawant, Palak Jain, and Sairaj Dhople.
8/27/2025Vellex Computing has been awarded a 1-year, $305k NSF SBIR Phase I project, An Analog Hardware Accelerator for Power Systems Feasibility Studies!
7/8/2025Our group's latest work, Real-time Solution Strategy for Linearly Constrained Quadratic Programs with Proportional-Integral Control and Variants, was presented at the 2025 American Control Conference (ACC). This is joint work with Kamlesh Sawant and Sairaj Dhople (UMN), Peter Seiler (UMich), and Mihailo Jovanović (USC).
3/4/2025Our team has been awarded U.S. Patent 12,244,321 for developing a hybrid computing approach for solving nonlinear optimization problems!