# Sophie Hall — Academic Profile (ETH Zürich, IfA)

Canonical URL: https://shall-research.moneta.studio/
Contact: shall@ethz.ch | Office: Physikstrasse 3, ETL-K22, Zürich, Switzerland

## Summary

Sophie Hall is a PhD student at ETH Zürich's Automatic Control Laboratory (IfA) in Prof. Florian Dörfler's group (since May 2021). Her research focuses on game-theoretic model predictive control (MPC) and its closed-loop guarantees, with applications to energy and groundwater systems. She also works on carbon-aware computing for global load shifting in collaboration with Google.

## Current Position

- PhD student, Automatic Control Laboratory (IfA), ETH Zürich
- Group: Prof. Florian Dörfler

## Research Areas

- Control Theory
- Game Theory
- Model Predictive Control (MPC) and game-theoretic MPC
- Fairness in multi-agent decision-making
- Energy systems and groundwater management
- Carbon-aware computing and global load shifting (with Google)
- Ethical Automation and Demand Side Management

## Education

- MSc, Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zürich (2021) — specialization: modeling and control
- BEng, Mechanical Engineering (medical engineering, control, signal processing), University of Surrey, UK and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

## Key Links

- Website: https://shall-research.moneta.studio/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophie-hall-0a323b326/
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nEHhRZ8AAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1584-9408
- CV (PDF): https://polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/7FmWNECtjELMRQL
- Lab: https://control.ee.ethz.ch/

## Industry Collaborators

- Google (carbon-aware computing for global load shifting)
- Tiko Energy

## Publications

### 2025

1. Solving Multiparametric Generalized Nash Equilibrium Problems and Explicit Game-Theoretic Model Predictive Control — S. Hall, A. Bemporad — arXiv:2512.05505 — https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05505
2. System-Theoretic Analysis of Dynamic Generalized Nash Equilibrium Problems — Turnpikes and Dissipativity — S. Hall, F. Dörfler, T. Faulwasser — arXiv:2510.21556 — https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21556
3. The Limits of "Fairness" of the Variational Generalized Nash Equilibrium — S. Hall, F. Dörfler, H.H. Nax, S. Bolognani — 2025 IEEE 64th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 5354–5360 — https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11312061
4. Bridging Finite and Infinite-Horizon Nash Equilibria in Linear Quadratic Games — G. Salizzoni, S. Hall, M. Kamgarpour — arXiv:2508.20675 — https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20675 — Submitted to: IEEE Control Systems Letters
5. Welfare and Cost Aggregation for Multi-Agent Control: When to Choose Which Social Cost Function, and Why? — I. Shilov*, E. Elokda*, S. Hall*, H.H. Nax, S. Bolognani — IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems — https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20772
6. Carbon-Aware Computing for Data Centers with Probabilistic Performance Guarantees — S. Hall, F. Micheli, G. Belgioioso, A. Radovanović, F. Dörfler — IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. Early Access, pp. 1–14, 2025 — doi:10.1109/TPWRS.2025.3630499 — https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11250739
7. Stability Certificates for Receding Horizon Games — S. Hall, G. Belgioioso, F. Dörfler, D. Liao-McPherson — IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. Early Access, pp. 1–8, 2025 — doi:10.1109/TAC.2025.3647314 — https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11313531

### 2024

8. Carbon-Aware Computing in a Network of Data Centers: A Hierarchical Game-Theoretic Approach — E. Breukelmann, S. Hall, G. Belgioioso, F. Dörfler — 2024 IEEE 63rd Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 4908–4914 — https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10591261
9. Receding Horizon Games for Modeling Competitive Supply Chains — S. Hall, L. Guerrini, F. Dörfler, D. Liao-McPherson — IFAC-PapersOnLine, 8th IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control — https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896324013818

### 2022

10. Receding horizon games with coupling constraints for demand-side management — S. Hall, G. Belgioioso, D. Liao-McPherson, F. Dorfler — 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 3795–3800 — https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9992497
11. Real-time Projected Gradient-based Nonlinear Model Predictive Control with an Application to Anesthesia Control — S. Hall, L. Ortmann, M. Picallo, F. Dörfler — 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 6193–6198 — https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9992498

### Earlier

12. Real-Time Ventricular Volume Measured Using the Intracardiac Electromyogram — MS Daners, S. Hall, S. Sündermann, N. Cesarovic, M. Kron, V. Falk, C. Starck — Asaio Journal 67(12), 1312–1320, 2021
13. The Depolarization Amplitude of the Electromyogram is a Measure of End-Diastolic Ventricular Volume — SA Dual, S. Hall, M. Sauer, N. Cesarovic, C. Starck, M. Meboldt — The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 39(4), S133, 2020
14. Preparation and printability of ultrashort self-assembling peptide nanoparticles — S. Ghalayini, HH Susapto, S. Hall, K. Kahin, CAE Hauser — International Journal of Bioprinting 5(2), 2019

## Awards

- 2025 — Best Presentation Award, Regelungstechnisches Kolloquium, Boppard, Germany
- 2024 — Finalist Best Paper Award, IFAC NMPC Conference, Japan
- 2023 — Best Presentation Award, British Columbia Systems & Control Meeting, Canada
- 2023 — Mitacs Globalink Research Award, Grid Resilience using Game-theoretic DSM, Canada
- 2023 — Best Poster Award, Digitalization of Cyber-physical Systems, Switzerland

## About (Extended Bio)

Sophie Hall has been a PhD student at the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zürich since May 2021, working in Prof. Dörfler's group. She completed her undergraduate studies in Mechanical Engineering focusing on medical engineering, control and signal processing at the University of Surrey, UK, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. In 2021, she obtained her MSc in Biomedical Engineering from ETH Zürich specializing in modeling and control. During her master's studies, she conducted research on Gaussian processes for control in Prof. Zeilinger's group and worked on real-time MPC schemes in Prof. Dörfler's group. Her PhD research focuses on game-theoretic MPC, its theoretical closed-loop properties, as well as energy and groundwater applications. In addition, she works on carbon-aware computing for global load shifting in collaboration with Google.

## Topics Summary (for AI indexers)

- Role: PhD student and researcher in control and game theory at ETH Zürich (IfA)
- Core Topics: game-theoretic MPC, closed-loop guarantees (stability, dissipativity, turnpikes), fairness in multi-agent control, energy and groundwater applications, carbon-aware computing with Google
- Methods: model predictive control, dynamic games, generalized Nash equilibria, distributionally robust optimization, job scheduling and demand shifting for data centers, social choice theory for multi-agent systems

## Contact

- Email: shall@ethz.ch
- Address: Physikstrasse 3, ETL-K22, Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Website: https://shall-research.moneta.studio/

Last updated: 2026-01-28

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