Publications by Areas of Research
Networked control systems
Xudong Chen and Bahman Gharesifard Sparse linear ensemble systems and structural averaged controllability: single-input case , 2023 Andrew Downie, Bahman Gharesifard and Stephen Smith, A programming approach for worst-case studies in distributed submodular maximization , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2022 Somya Singh and Fady Alajaji, and Bahman Gharesifard , Consensus Using a network of finite memory Polya Urns ,
IEEE Control Systems Letters , 2022
Behrouz Touri and Bahman Gharesifard , A unified framework for continuous-time distributed optimization SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization , 2023
Bahman Gharesifard and Xudong Chen, Structural averaged controllability of linear ensemble systems ,
IEEE Control Systems Letters , 2021
Pouya Rezaienia, Bahman Gharesifard , and Tamas Linder Distributed optimization with uncertain communications , submitted, 2021
Somya Singh and Fady Alajaji, and Bahman Gharesifard , A finite memory interacting Polya contagion network and its approximating dynamical systems ,
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization , 2022
Greg Harrington and Fady Alajaji, and Bahman Gharesifard , Initialization and curing policies for Polya contagion networks ,
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization , 2022
Mikhail Hayhoe, Fady Alajaji, and Bahman Gharesifard ,
Curing epidemics on networks using a Polya contagion model ,
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking , 2020 (pdf available)
Pouya Rezaienia, Bahman Gharesifard , Tamas Linder, and Behrouz Touri,
Push-sum on random graphs , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 2019
Behrouz Touri and Bahman Gharesifard , A modified saddle-point dynamics for distributed convex optimization on general directed graphs , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 2019
Simon Michalowsky, Bahman Gharesifard, and Christian Ebenbauer, A Lie bracket approximation approach to distributed optimization ,
Automatica , 2019
Michael McCreesh and Bahman Gharesifard , Stability of bounded subsets of Metzler sparse matrix cones , Automatica , 2018
Mohammad Akbari, Bahman Gharesifard , and Tamas Linder, Individual regret bounds for the distributed online alternating direction method of multipliers , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 2019 Aris Tsopelakos, Mohamed Ali Belabbas, and Bahman Gharesifard , Classification of the structurally controllable zero-patterns for driftless bilinear control systems , IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems , 2018 Mikhail Hayhoe, Fady Alajaji, and Bahman Gharesifard , A Polya contagion model for networks , IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems , 2018
Bahman Gharesifard and Stephen Smith, Distributed Submodular Maximization with Limited Information , IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems , 2018
Shreyas Sundaram and Bahman Gharesifard , Distributed optimization under adversarial nodes , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 2019
Cesar Aguilar and Bahman Gharesifard ,
Almost equitable partitions and new necessary conditions for network controllability , Automatica , 2017
Bahman Gharesifard ,
Stabilization of bilinear sparse matrix control systems using periodic inputs , Automatica , 2017
Bahman Gharesifard , Behrouz Touri, Tamer Basar, Jeff Shamma, On the convergence of piecewise linear strategic interaction dynamics on networks , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 2016
Mohammad Akbari, Bahman Gharesifard , and Tamas Linder, Distributed online convex optimization on time-varying directed graphs , IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems , 2017
Ali Khanafer, Tamer Basar, and Bahman Gharesifard , Stability of epidemic models over directed graphs: a positive systems approach , Automatica , 2016
Bahman Gharesifard , Tamer Basar, and Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, Price-based approach for controlling networked distributed energy resources , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 2016
Cesar Aguilar and Bahman Gharesifard ,
Graph controllability classes for the Laplacian leader-follower dynamics , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 2015 Cesar Aguilar and Bahman Gharesifard , Laplacian Controllability Classes for Threshold Graphs , Linear Algebra and Its Applications , 2015 Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Distributed continuous-time convex optimization on weight-balanced digraphs , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 2014
Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Distributed convergence to Nash equilibria in two-network zero-sum games , Automatica , 2013
Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Distributed strategies for generating weight-balanced and doubly stochastic digraphs , European Journal of Control , 2012 Pouya Rezaienia, Bahman Gharesifard , Tamas Linder, and Behrouz Touri, Distributed optimization on random graphs , Proceedings of the 7th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Groningen, Netherlands, 2018 Pouya Rezaienia, Bahman Gharesifard , Tamas Linder, and Behrouz Touri,
Convergence rate of push-sum algorithms on random graphs , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Miami, 2018 Pouya Rezaienia, Bahman Gharesifard , Tamas Linder, and Behrouz Touri, Distributed optimization on random graphs , Proceedings of the 7th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Groningen, Netherlands, 2018 Pouya Rezaienia, Bahman Gharesifard , Tamas Linder, and Behrouz Touri, Convergence rate of push-sum algorithms on random graphs , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Miami, 2018 Simon Michalowsky, Bahman Gharesifard, , and Christian Ebenbauer On the Lie bracket approximation approach to distributed optimization: Extensions and limitations , Proceedings of the European Control Conference, Cyprus, Greece, 2018 Mikhail Hayhoe, Fady Alajaji, and Bahman Gharesifard , Curing with the Network Polya Contagion Model , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Milwaukee, 2018 Simon Michalowsky, Bahman Gharesifard, , and Christian Ebenbauer Distributed extremum seeking over directed graphs , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Melbourne, Australia, 2017 Christian Ebenbauer, Simon Michalowsky, Victoria Grushkovskaya, and Bahman Gharesifard, Distributed optimization over directed graphs with the help of Lie brackets , Proceedings of the 20th IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, 2017 Bahman Gharesifard and Christian Ebenbauer, Convergence properties of an Isospectral saddle-point dynamics , Proceedings of the 20th IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, 2017Mikhail Hayhoe, Fady Alajaji, and Bahman Gharesifard , A Polya urn-based model for epidemics on networks , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Seattle (Finalist for Best Student Paper Award ), 2017 Behrouz Touri and Bahman Gharesifard , Saddle-point dynamics for distributed convex optimization on general directed graphs , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, 2016 Shreyas Sundaram and Bahman Gharesifard , Secure local filtering algorithms for distributed optimization , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, 2016 Bahman Gharesifard and Stephen Smith, On distributed submodular maximization with limited information , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Boston, 2016Cesar Aguilar and Bahman Gharesifard , On almost equitable partitions and network controllability , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Boston, 2016 (invited talk ) Mohammad Akbari, Bahman Gharesifard , and Tamas Linder, Regret bounds for the distributed online alternating direction method of multipliers ,Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, abstract, 2016 (invited talk ) Bahman Gharesifard , Averaging methods for stabilization of bilinear sparse matrix control systems , Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, abstract, 2015 (invited talk )Shreyas Sundaram and Bahman Gharesifard , Consensus-based distributed optimization with malicious nodes , Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, abstract, 2015 (invited paper ) Behrouz Touri and Bahman Gharesifard , Continuous-time distributed convex optimization on time-varying directed networks ,
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, CA, 2015 (invited paper ) Jeremy Coulson, Drew Steeves, Bahman Gharesifard , and Behrouz Touri, On the termination time of the one-sided asymmetric Hegselmann-Krause dynamics , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Chicago, 2015 Cesar Aguilar and Bahman Gharesifard , On graph controllability classes , Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, abstract, 2014, (invited talk ), Behrouz Touri and Bahman Gharesifard , A distributed observer for distributed control systems , Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, abstract, 2014, (invited talk ) Mohammad Akbari, Bahman Gharesifard , and Tamas Linder, Distributed subgradient-push online convex optimization on time-varying directed graphs , Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing,Monticello, Illinois, 2014 Ali Khanafer, Tamer Basar, and Bahman Gharesifard , Stability properties of infection diffusion dynamics over directed networks , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angles, CA, 2014 (invited paper ) Cesar Aguilar and Bahman Gharesifard , A graph-theoretic classification for the controllability of the Laplacian leader-follower dynamics , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angles, CA, 2014 Bahman Gharesifard , Tamer Basar, and Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, Designing pricing strategies for coordination of networked distributed energy resources , Proceedings of the 19th IFAC World Congress, Cape town, 2014 Cesar Aguilar and Bahman Gharesifard , Necessary conditions for controllability of nonlinear networked control systems , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, 2014 Ali Khanafer, Tamer Basar, and Bahman Gharesifard , Stability properties of infected networks with low curing rate , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, 2014 Bahman Gharesifard , Behrouz Touri, Tamer Basar, Cedric Langbort, Distributed optimization by myopic strategic interactions and the price of heterogeneity , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, 2013 Bahman Gharesifard , Tamer Basar, and Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, Price-based distributed control for networked plug-in electric vehicles , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Washington, 2013 Bahman Gharesifard and Tamer Basar, Resilience in consensus dynamics via competitive interactions , Proceedings of the 3rd IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Santa Barbara, 2012 Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Continuous-time distributed convex optimization on weight-balanced digraphs , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Hawaii, 2012 (invited paper ) Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Distributed convergence to Nash equilibria by adversarial networks with directed topologies , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Hawaii, 2012 (invited paper ) Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Distributed convergence to Nash equilibria by adversarial networks with undirected topologies , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2012 Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, When does a digraph admit a doubly stochastic adjacency matrix? , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, 2010 Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Distributed strategies for making a digraph weight-balanced , Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, 2009 (invited paper )
Geometric control theory
Xudong Chen and Bahman Gharesifard , Distinguished sets for semi-simple Lie algebras , Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics , 2021
Paulo Tabuada and Bahman Gharesifard , Universal approximation power of deep residual neural networks via nonlinear control theory , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , to appear, 2022
Simon Michalowsky, Bahman Gharesifard, and Christian Ebenbauer, A Lie bracket approximation approach to distributed optimization ,
Automatica , 2019
Aris Tsopelakos, Mohamed Ali Belabbas, and Bahman Gharesifard , Classification of the structurally controllable zero-patterns for driftless bilinear control systems , IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems , 2018
Bahman Gharesifard ,
Stabilization of bilinear sparse matrix control systems using periodic inputs , Automatica , 2017 Bahman Gharesifard , Stabilization of systems with one degree of underactuation with energy shaping, a geometric approach , SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization , 2011 Bahman Gharesifard and Andrew D. Lewis and Abdol-Reza Mansouri, A geometric framework for stabilization by energy shaping: sufficient conditions for existence of solutions , Brockett Legacy Special Issue, Communications in Information and Systems , 2008 Paulo Tabuada and Bahman Gharesifard , Universal approximation power of deep residual neural networks via nonlinear control theory , International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) , 2021 Simon Michalowsky, Bahman Gharesifard, , and Christian Ebenbauer On the Lie bracket approximation approach to distributed optimization: Extensions and limitations , Proceedings of the European Control Conference, Cyprus, Greece, 2018 Xudong Chen and Bahman Gharesifard, Distinguished vector fields over smooth manifolds with applications to ensemble control , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Melbourne, Australia, 2017 Christian Ebenbauer, Simon Michalowsky, Victoria Grushkovskaya, and Bahman Gharesifard, Distributed optimization over directed graphs with the help of Lie brackets , Proceedings of the 20th IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, 2017 Bahman Gharesifard and Christian Ebenbauer, Convergence properties of an Isospectral saddle-point dynamics , Proceedings of the 20th IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, 2017 Bahman Gharesifard , Averaging methods for stabilization of bilinear sparse matrix control systems , Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, abstract, 2015 (invited talk ) Bahman Gharesifard , A complete characterization of stabilization of systems with one degree of underactuation with energy shaping method , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2010 Bahman Gharesifard , Integrability of energy shaping partial differential equation , Eighteenth International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Blacksburg, Virginia, 2008
Distributed averaging
Somya Singh and Fady Alajaji, and Bahman Gharesifard , Consensus Using a network of finite memory Polya Urns ,
IEEE Control Systems Letters , 2022
Pouya Rezaienia, Bahman Gharesifard , Tamas Linder, and Behrouz Touri,
Push-sum on random graphs , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 2019
Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Distributed strategies for generating weight-balanced and doubly stochastic digraphs , European Journal of Control , 2012 Pouya Rezaienia, Bahman Gharesifard , Tamas Linder, and Behrouz Touri, Convergence rate of push-sum algorithms on random graphs , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Miami, 2018 Jeremy Coulson, Drew Steeves, Bahman Gharesifard , and Behrouz Touri, On the termination time of the one-sided asymmetric Hegselmann-Krause dynamics , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Chicago, 2015 Bahman Gharesifard and Tamer Basar, Resilience in consensus dynamics via competitive interactions , Proceedings of the 3rd IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Santa Barbara, 2012 Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, When does a digraph admit a doubly stochastic adjacency matrix? , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, 2010 Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Distributed strategies for making a digraph weight-balanced , Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, 2009 (invited paper )
Distributed optimization
Andrew Downie, Bahman Gharesifard and Stephen Smith, A programming approach for worst-case studies in distributed submodular maximization , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2022
Behrouz Touri and Bahman Gharesifard , A unified framework for continuous-time distributed optimization SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization , to apppear, 2023
Pouya Rezaienia, Bahman Gharesifard , and Tamas Linder Distributed optimization with uncertain communications , submitted, 2021 Behrouz Touri and Bahman Gharesifard , A modified saddle-point dynamics for distributed convex optimization on general directed graphs , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 2019 Simon Michalowsky, Bahman Gharesifard, and Christian Ebenbauer, A Lie bracket approximation approach to distributed optimization , Automatica , 2019 Mohammad Akbari, Bahman Gharesifard , and Tamas Linder, Individual regret bounds for the distributed online alternating direction method of multipliers , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 2019 Bahman Gharesifard and Stephen Smith, Distributed Submodular Maximization with Limited Information , IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems , 2018
Mohammad Akbari, Bahman Gharesifard , and Tamas Linder, Distributed online convex optimization on time-varying directed graphs , IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems , 2017
Bahman Gharesifard , Tamer Basar, and Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, Price-based approach for controlling networked distributed energy resources , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 2016
Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Distributed continuous-time convex optimization on weight-balanced digraphs , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 2014 Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Distributed convergence to Nash equilibria in two-network zero-sum games , Automatica , 2013 Pouya Rezaienia, Bahman Gharesifard , Tamas Linder, and Behrouz Touri, Distributed optimization on random graphs , Proceedings of the 7th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Groningen, Netherlands, 2018 Simon Michalowsky, Bahman Gharesifard, , and Christian Ebenbauer On the Lie bracket approximation approach to distributed optimization: Extensions and limitations , Proceedings of the European Control Conference, Cyprus, Greece, 2018 Simon Michalowsky, Bahman Gharesifard, , and Christian Ebenbauer Distributed extremum seeking over directed graphs , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Melbourne, Australia, 2017 Christian Ebenbauer, Simon Michalowsky, Victoria Grushkovskaya, and Bahman Gharesifard, Distributed optimization over directed graphs with the help of Lie brackets , Proceedings of the 20th IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, 2017 Behrouz Touri and Bahman Gharesifard , Saddle-point dynamics for distributed convex optimization on general directed graphs , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, 2016 Shreyas Sundaram and Bahman Gharesifard , Secure local filtering algorithms for distributed optimization , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, 2016 Bahman Gharesifard and Stephen Smith, On distributed submodular maximization with limited information , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Boston, 2016Mohammad Akbari, Bahman Gharesifard , and Tamas Linder, Regret bounds for the distributed online alternating direction method of multipliers ,Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, abstract, 2016 (invited talk ) Shreyas Sundaram and Bahman Gharesifard , Consensus-based distributed optimization with malicious nodes , Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, abstract, 2015 (invited paper ) Behrouz Touri and Bahman Gharesifard , Continuous-time distributed convex optimization on time-varying directed networks , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, CA, 2015 (invited paper ) Behrouz Touri and Bahman Gharesifard , A distributed observer for distributed control systems , Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, abstract, 2014, (invited talk ) Mohammad Akbari, Bahman Gharesifard , and Tamas Linder, Distributed subgradient-push online convex optimization on time-varying directed graphs , Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing,Monticello, Illinois, 2014 Bahman Gharesifard , Behrouz Touri, Tamer Basar, Cedric Langbort, Distributed optimization by myopic strategic interactions and the price of heterogeneity , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, 2013 Bahman Gharesifard , Tamer Basar, and Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, Price-based distributed control for networked plug-in electric vehicles , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Washington, 2013 invited paper ) Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Distributed convergence to Nash equilibria by adversarial networks with directed topologies , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Hawaii, 2012 (invited paper ) Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Distributed convergence to Nash equilibria by adversarial networks with undirected topologies , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2012
Submodular optimization
Andrew Downie, Bahman Gharesifard and Stephen Smith, A programming approach for worst-case studies in distributed submodular maximization , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2022 Andrew Downie, Bahman Gharesifard and Stephen Smith, Submodular maximization with limited function access , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 2022 Bahman Gharesifard and Stephen Smith,
Distributed Submodular Maximization with Limited Information ,
IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems , 2018 Bahman Gharesifard and Stephen Smith, On distributed submodular maximization with limited information , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Boston, 2016
GANs, Privacy, and Information Bottleneck
Adam Gronowski, William Paul, Fady Alajaji, Bahman Gharesifard , and Philippe Burlina, Classification utility, fairness, and compactness via tunable information bottleneck and Renyi measures , IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security , 2024 Himesh Bhatia, William Paul, Fady Alajaji, Bahman Gharesifard , and Philippe Burlina, Renyi Generative Adversarial Networks , Neural Computations , 2021 Adam Gronowski, William Paul, Fady Alajaji, Bahman Gharesifard , and Philippe Burlina, Renyi fair information bottleneck for imagine classification , 17th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory,
Canadian Society of Information Theory Best Paper Award , 2022
Network controllability
Xudong Chen and Bahman Gharesifard Sparse linear ensemble systems and structural averaged controllability: single-input case , 2023 Bahman Gharesifard and Xudong Chen, Structural averaged controllability of linear ensemble systems ,
IEEE Control Systems Letters , 2021 Aris Tsopelakos, Mohamed Ali Belabbas, and Bahman Gharesifard , Classification of the structurally controllable zero-patterns for driftless bilinear control systems , IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems , 2018 Cesar Aguilar and Bahman Gharesifard , Almost equitable partitions and new necessary conditions for network controllability , Automatica , 2017 Cesar Aguilar and Bahman Gharesifard , Graph controllability classes for the Laplacian leader-follower dynamics , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 2015 (pdf available) Cesar Aguilar and Bahman Gharesifard , Laplacian Controllability Classes for Threshold Graphs , Linear Algebra and Its Applications , 2015 (pdf available) Cesar Aguilar and Bahman Gharesifard , On almost equitable partitions and network controllability , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Boston, 2016 (invited talk ) Cesar Aguilar and Bahman Gharesifard , On graph controllability classes , Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, abstract, 2014, (invited talk ), Cesar Aguilar and Bahman Gharesifard , A graph-theoretic classification for the controllability of the Laplacian leader-follower dynamics , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angles, CA, 2014 Cesar Aguilar and Bahman Gharesifard , Necessary conditions for controllability of nonlinear networked control systems , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland OR, 2014
Network sciences
Somya Singh and Fady Alajaji, and Bahman Gharesifard , Generating Preferential Attachment Graphs via a Polya Urn with Expanding Colors ,
Network Science , Cambrdige University Press, 2024 Somya Singh and Fady Alajaji, and Bahman Gharesifard , A finite memory interacting Polya contagion network and its approximating dynamical systems ,
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization , 2022 Greg Harrington and Fady Alajaji, and Bahman Gharesifard , Initialization and curing policies for Polya contagion networks , SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization , to appear, 2022 Mikhail Hayhoe, Fady Alajaji, and Bahman Gharesifard , Curing epidemics on networks using a Polya contagion model , IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking , 2020 Mikhail Hayhoe, Fady Alajaji, and Bahman Gharesifard , A Polya contagion model for networks , IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems , 2018
Bahman Gharesifard , Stability of epidemic models over directed graphs: a positive systems approach , Automatica , 2016 Mikhail Hayhoe, Fady Alajaji, and Bahman Gharesifard , Curing with the Network Polya Contagion Model , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Milwaukee, 2018
Mikhail Hayhoe, Fady Alajaji, and Bahman Gharesifard , A Polya urn-based model for epidemics on networks , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Seattle (Finalist for Best Student Paper Award ), 2017 Ali Khanafer, Tamer Basar, and Bahman Gharesifard , Stability properties of infection diffusion dynamics over directed networks , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angles, CA, 2014 (invited paper ) Ali Khanafer, Tamer Basar, and Bahman Gharesifard , Stability properties of infected networks with low curing rate , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, 2014
Robotics
Matteo Marchi, Johnathan Bunton, Bahman Gharesifard , and Paulo Tabuada, Sharp performance bounds for provably accurate simple transformation alignment
, IEEE Control Systems Letters , 2023
Matteo Marchi, Jonathan Bunton, Yskandar Gas, Bahman Gharesifard , and Paulo Tabuada, Provably accurate simple transformation alignment , IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, 2022
Reinforcement learning
Neural networks
Karthik Elamvazhuti, Bahman Gharesifard , Andrea Bertozzi, and Stanley Osher, Neural ODE control for trajectory approximation of continuity equation , IEEE Control Systems Letters , 2022 Matteo Marchi, Johnathan Bunton, Bahman Gharesifard , and Paulo Tabuada, Stability guarantees for control loops with deep learning state estimation , IEEE Control Systems Letters , 2021 Himesh Bhatia, William Paul, Fady Alajaji, Bahman Gharesifard , and Philippe Burlina, Renyi Generative Adversarial Networks , Neural Computations , 2021 Matteo Marchi, Bahman Gharesifard , and Paulo Tabuada, Training deep residual networks for uniform approximation guarantees , Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC) 2021 Paulo Tabuada and Bahman Gharesifard , Universal approximation power of deep residual neural networks via nonlinear control theory , International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) , 2021
Online optimization
Mohammad Akbari, Bahman Gharesifard , and Tamas Linder, Individual regret bounds for the distributed online alternating direction method of multipliers , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 2019 Mohammad Akbari, Bahman Gharesifard , and Tamas Linder, Distributed online convex optimization on time-varying directed graphs , IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems , 2017
Mohammad Akbari, Bahman Gharesifard , and Tamas Linder, Regret bounds for the distributed online alternating direction method of multipliers ,Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, abstract, 2016 (invited talk ) Mohammad Akbari, Bahman Gharesifard , and Tamas Linder, Distributed subgradient-push online convex optimization on time-varying directed graphs , Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing,Monticello, Illinois, 2014
Adaptive control
Marc Weber, Bahman Gharesifard , and Christian Ebenbauer, A note on Nussbaum-type control and Lie-bracket approximation, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin, 2021
Learning and control
Marc Weber, Bahman Gharesifard , and Christian Ebenbauer, A note on Nussbaum-type control and Lie-bracket approximation, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin, 2021 Matteo Marchi, Johnathan Bunton, Bahman Gharesifard , and Paulo Tabuada, Stability guarantees for control loops with deep learning state estimation , IEEE Control Systems Letters , 2021 Meriem Gharbi, Bahman Gharesifard , and Christian Ebenbauer, Anytime Proximity Moving Horizon Estimation: Stability and Regret , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 2022 Mohammad Akbari, Bahman Gharesifard , and Tamas Linder, Logarithmic regret in online linear quadratic control using Riccati updates , Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems , accepted, 2021 Mohammad Akbari, Bahman Gharesifard , and Tamas Linder, An Iterative Riccati Algorithm for Online Linear Quadratic Control , Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC) , 2020
Optimal control theory
Annika Fürnsinn, Christian Ebenbauer, and Bahman Gharesifard , Flexible-step model predictive control based on generalized Lyapunov functions , provisionally accepted, Automatica , 2023 Bahman Gharesifard and Andrew Lewis, The trouble with imaginary eigenvalues. Optimal control, controllability, frequency response , 2020 Mohammad Akbari, Bahman Gharesifard , and Tamas Linder On the lack of monotonicity of Newton-Hewer updates for Riccati equations , Automatica , 2021 Mohammad Akbari, Bahman Gharesifard , and Tamas Linder An Iterative Riccati Algorithm for Online Linear Quadratic Control , L4DC 2020
Model Predictive Control
Annika Fürnsinn, Christian Ebenbauer, and Bahman Gharesifard , Flexible-step MPC for switched linear systems with No quadratic common Lyapunov function , 2024 Annika Fürnsinn, Christian Ebenbauer, and Bahman Gharesifard , Flexible-step model predictive control based on generalized Lyapunov functions , provisionally accepted, Automatica , 2023 Annika Fürnsinn, Christian Ebenbauer, and Bahman Gharesifard , Relaxed feasibility and stability criteria for flexible-step MPC , IEEE Control Systems Letters , 2023
Bilinear control systems
Aris Tsopelakos, Mohamed Ali Belabbas, and Bahman Gharesifard , Classification of the structurally controllable zero-patterns for driftless bilinear control systems , IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems , 2018 Bahman Gharesifard , Stabilization of bilinear sparse matrix control systems using periodic inputs , Automatica , 77, 239-245, 2017 Bahman Gharesifard , Averaging methods for stabilization of bilinear sparse matrix control systems , Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, abstract, 2015 (invited talk )
Adversarial learning
Shreyas Sundaram and Bahman Gharesifard , Distributed optimization under adversarial nodes , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 2019
Shreyas Sundaram and Bahman Gharesifard , Secure local filtering algorithms for distributed optimization , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, 2016 Shreyas Sundaram and Bahman Gharesifard , Consensus-based distributed optimization with malicious nodes , Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, abstract, 2015 (invited paper ) Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Distributed convergence to Nash equilibria in two-network zero-sum games , Automatica , 2013 Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Stealthy deception in hypergames under informational asymmetry ,IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics: Systems , 2014 Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Evolution of players' misperceptions in hypergames under perfect observations , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 2012 (pdf available) Bahman Gharesifard and Tamer Basar, Resilience in consensus dynamics via competitive interactions , Proceedings of the 3rd IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Santa Barbara, 2012 Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Distributed convergence to Nash equilibria by adversarial networks with directed topologies , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Hawaii, 2012 (invited paper ) Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Distributed convergence to Nash equilibria by adversarial networks with undirected topologies , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2012 Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Exploration of misperceptions in hypergames , Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, 1565-1570, 2011 (invited paper ) Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Stealthy Strategies for Deception in Hypergames with Asymmetric Information , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando, Florida, 2011 Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Learning of equilibria and misperceptions in hypergames with perfect observations , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, San Francisco, California, 2011, (invited paper ) Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Evolution of the perception about the opponent in hypergames , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, Georgia, 2010
Game theory
Daniel Adu and Bahman Gharesifard , Robust matching for teams , Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications , 2024 Daniel Adu, Tamer Basar, and Bahman Gharesifard , Optimal transport for a class of linear quadratic differential games , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , to appear, 2022 Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Stealthy deception in hypergames under informational asymmetry ,IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics: Systems , 2014 Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Evolution of players' misperceptions in hypergames under perfect observations , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 57 (7), 2012 (pdf available) Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Exploration of misperceptions in hypergames , Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, 2011 (invited paper ) Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Stealthy Strategies for Deception in Hypergames with Asymmetric Information , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando, Florida, 2011 Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Learning of equilibria and misperceptions in hypergames with perfect observations , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, San Francisco, California, 2011, (invited paper ) Bahman Gharesifard and Jorge Cortes, Evolution of the perception about the opponent in hypergames , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2010 Bahman Gharesifard and Tamer Basar, Resilience in consensus dynamics via competitive interactions , Proceedings of the 3rd IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Santa Barbara, 2012
Optimal transport theory
Daniel Adu and Bahman Gharesifard , Robust matching for teams , Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications , 2024 Karthik Elamvazhuti, Bahman Gharesifard , Andrea Bertozzi, and Stanley Osher, Neural ODE control for trajectory approximation of continuity equation , IEEE Control Systems Letters , 2022 Daniel Adu, Tamer Basar, and Bahman Gharesifard , Optimal transport for a class of linear quadratic differential games , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , to appear, 2022
Saddle-point dynamical systems
Bahman Gharesifard and Christian Ebenbauer, An isospectral saddle-point dynamics , preprint, 2021Behrouz Touri and Bahman Gharesifard ,
A modified saddle-point dynamics for distributed convex optimization on general directed graphs , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , to appear, 2019 Ashish Cherukuri, Bahman Gharesifard , and Jorge Cortes, Saddle-point dynamics: conditions for asymptotic stability of saddle points , SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization , 2017 Bahman Gharesifard and Christian Ebenbauer, Convergence properties of an Isospectral saddle-point dynamics , Proceedings of the 20th IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, 2017Behrouz Touri and Bahman Gharesifard , Saddle-point dynamics for distributed convex optimization on general directed graphs , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, 2016 Bahman Gharesifard and Christian Ebenbauer, Convergence properties of an Isospectral saddle-point dynamics , Proceedings of the 20th IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, 2017
Event-triggered control
Kexue Zhang, Bahman Gharesifard , and Elena Braverman,
A note on stability of event-triggered control systems with time delays , IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control , 2024 Kexue Zhang, Bahman Gharesifard , and Elena Braverman,
Event-triggered control for nonlinear time-delay systems , IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control , 2022 Kexue Zhang and Bahman Gharesifard , Hybrid event-triggered and impulsive control for time-delay systems , Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems , 2021 Kexue Zhang and Bahman Gharesifard , and Elena Braverman, Event-triggered control for discrete-time delay systems , submitted 2020
Estimation
Matteo Marchi, Johnathan Bunton, Bahman Gharesifard , and Paulo Tabuada, Stability guarantees for control loops with deep learning state estimation , IEEE Control Systems Letters , 2021 Meriem Gharbi, Bahman Gharesifard , and Christian Ebenbauer, Anytime Proximity Moving Horizon Estimation: Stability and Regret , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 2022
Geometric mechanics
Bahman Gharesifard , Stabilization of systems with one degree of underactuation with energy shaping, a geometric approach , SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization , 2011 (pdf available) Bahman Gharesifard and Andrew D. Lewis and Abdol-Reza Mansouri, A geometric framework for stabilization by energy shaping: sufficient conditions for existence of solutions , Brockett Legacy Special Issue, Communications in Information and Systems , 2008 (pdf available) Bahman Gharesifard , Integrability of energy shaping partial differential equation , Eighteenth International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Blacksburg, Virginia, 2008 Bahman Gharesifard , A geometric approach to energy shaping , Ph.D., Queen's University, 2009
Control of partial differential equations
Drew Steeves, Bahman Gharesifard , and Abdol-Reza Mansouri, Controllability of coupled parabolic systems with multiple underactuations Part I: Algebraic solvability , SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization , 2019 (SIAG/CST Best SICON Paper Prize 2021) Drew Steeves, Bahman Gharesifard , and Abdol-Reza Mansouri, Controllability of Coupled parabolic systems with multiple underactuations: Part II: Null controllability , SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization , 2019 (SIAG/CST Best SICON Paper Prize 2021) Jeremy Coulson, Bahman Gharesifard , and Abdol-Reza Mansouri, On average controllability of random heat equations with arbitrarily distributed diffusivity , Automatica , 2019 Drew Steeves, Bahman Gharesifard , and Abdol-Reza Mansouri,Controllability of coupled parabolic systems with multiple underactuations , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Miami, 2018
Market design for distributed energy resources
Bahman Gharesifard , Tamer Basar, and Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, Price-based approach for controlling networked distributed energy resources , IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control , 2016 Bahman Gharesifard , Behrouz Touri, Tamer Basar, Cedric Langbort, Distributed optimization by myopic strategic interactions and the price of heterogeneity , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, 2013 Bahman Gharesifard , Tamer Basar, and Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, Price-based distributed control for networked plug-in electric vehicles , Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Washington DC, 2013 Bahman Gharesifard , Tamer Basar, and Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, Designing pricing strategies for coordination of networked distributed energy resources , Proceedings of the 19th IFAC World Congress, Cape town, 2014
Ensemble control
Xudong Chen and Bahman Gharesifard Sparse linear ensemble systems and structural averaged controllability: single-input case , 2023
Bahman Gharesifard and Xudong Chen, Structural averaged controllability of linear ensemble systems ,
IEEE Control Systems Letters , 2021
Xudong Chen and Bahman Gharesifard , Distinguished sets for semi-simple Lie algebras , Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics , 2021 Xudong Chen and Bahman Gharesifard, Distinguished vector fields over smooth manifolds with applications to ensemble control , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Melbourne, Australia, 2017
Geometric theory of partial differential equations
Bahman Gharesifard , Stabilization of systems with one degree of underactuation with energy shaping, a geometric approach , SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization , 2011 (pdf available) Bahman Gharesifard and Andrew D. Lewis and Abdol-Reza Mansouri, A geometric framework for stabilization by energy shaping: sufficient conditions for existence of solutions , Brockett Legacy Special Issue, Communications in Information and Systems , 2008 (pdf available) Bahman Gharesifard , Integrability of energy shaping partial differential equation , Eighteenth International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Blacksburg, Virginia, 2008 Bahman Gharesifard , A geometric approach to energy shaping , Ph.D., Queen's University, 2009
Lie theory