
P.R. Kumar
University Distinguished Professor | Regents Professor | O’Donnell Foundation Chair I- prk@tamu.edu
- Room 331E Tel: (979) 862-1645 Email: prk.tamu@gmail.com
Biography
Regents Professor
O’Donnell Foundation Chair I
Member National Academy of Engineering, Member World Academy of Science, Fellow ACM, IEEE and IFAC, Franklin Woeltge Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Honorary Professor at IIT Hyderabad
Research Interests
Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Communication Networks, Cyber Physical systems, AI in Health care and Manufacturing.
Cyber-Physical Systems Lab
Research Interests
Books
Publications
Past Conference Presentations
Awards and Honors
Students and Post-docs
Presentations
Table Tennis
Miscellaneous
Short Biography
Mailing Address: 3259 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3259
Administrative Coordinator: Carolyn Warzon, carolyn@ece.tamu.edu
Books
View books (6 entries)
In reverse chronological order:
- Le Xie, Meng Wu and P. R. Kumar, Architecture and Economics for Grid Operations 3.0, Vol. 2, No. 3, Foundations and Trends in Electric Energy Systems: NOW Publishers, Delft, The Netherlands, 2018.
- P. R. Kumar and P. Varaiya, Stochastic Systems: Estimation, Identification and Adaptive Control, SIAM Classics in Applied Mathematics, SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, 2015.
- Jonathan Ponniah, Yih-Chun Hu and P. R. Kumar, A Clean Slate Approach to Secure Wireless Net-working. Vol. 9: No. 1, Foundations and Trends in Networking, NOW Publishers, Delft, The Netherlands, 2015.
- I-Hong Hou and P. R. Kumar, Packets with Deadlines: A Framework for Real-Time Wireless Networks. Synthesis Lectures on Communication Networks, Vol. 6, No. 1. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, May 2013.
- Feng Xue and P. R. Kumar, Scaling Laws for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: An Information Theoretic Approach. NOW Publishers, Delft, The Netherlands, 2006.
- P. R. Kumar and P. Varaiya, Stochastic Systems: Estimation, Identification and Adaptive Control, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1986.
Past Conference Presentations
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- Workshops at IEEE CDC 2016, Las Vegas, December 11, 2016
- Mercer Distinguished Lecture Series, Troy, NY, November 30, 2016
- 13th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2016), Brasilia, Brazil, October 10-13, 2016
- 1st ACM International Conference on Connected and Automated Vehicle Mobility (CarSys 2016), New York, October 7 (Tentative), 2016
- 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2016), New York, October, 2016
- 6th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems (NecSys 2016), Tokyo, Japan, September 8-9, 2016
- Information, Decisions and Networks: A workshop in honor of Demos Teneketzis’s 65th birthday, Ann Arbor, MI, July 28-29, 2016
- Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Applications to the Power Grid, Boston, MA, July 16-17, 2016
- Mobihoc workshop on the Frontiers of Networks: Theory and Algorithms, Paderborn, Germany, July 5, 2016
- MobiHoc 2016, Paderborn, Germany, July 4-8, 2016
- Shanghai Tech, 2016
- International Workshop on Design Automation for Cyber-Physical Systems, Austin, TX, June 5, 2016
- IEEE INFOCOM 2016, San Francisco, April 10-15, 2016
- Texas Systems Day 2016, Austin, TX, April 8, 2016
- IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2015), San Antonio, December 1-4, 2015
- 1st International Conference on Big Data Computing and Communication (BigCom 2015), Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China, Aug 1-3, 2015
- 34th Chinese Control Conference (CCC) and Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) of Japan Annual Conference 2015 (SICE 2015). Hangzhou, China, July 28–30, 2015.
- 150th Anniversary of ITU: ICT for Innovation, Bangalore, July 9, 2015
- MobiHoc 2015, Hangzhou, China, June 22-25, 2015
- 13th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Net-works (WiOpt 2015), Bombay, May 25–27, 2015.
- 11th International Workshop on Resource Allocation, Cooperation and Competition in Wireless Networks (RAWNET 2015), Mumbai, India, May 25, 2015.
- 2014 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC). Paderborn, Germany, December 3-5, 2014.
- ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, (MobiHoc 2014) Philadelphia, PA, Aug 11-14, 2014.
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2014), Toronto, Canada, April 27-May 2, 2014.
- Cyber-Physical Systems Week (CPSWeek) 2014. Berlin, Germany, April 15-17, 2014.
- International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2014), Berlin, Germany, April 14-17, 2014.
- National Conference on Communications (NCC), Kanpur, India, Feb 28, 2014.
- 6th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2014), Bangalore, India, January 7-10, 2014.
- 2013 Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON), Bombay, India, Dec 15, 2013.
- The Fourth International Workshop on Cross-Layer Design (IWCLD 2013), Qingdao, China, Oct 28-29, 2013.
- 2013 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP 2013), Hangzhou, China, Oct 24-26, 2013.
- 51st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, Oct 2-4, 2013.
- MobiHoc 2013, Bangalore, July 29-August 1, 2013.
- NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture Series, Arlington, VA
- 2013 North American School of Information Theory, Purdue, June 4-June 7, 2013
- International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Philadelphia, PA, April 8-11, 2013.
- IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2013), Shanghai, April 7-10, 2013.
- Asymptotics of Large-Scale Interacting Networks,Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery, Banff, Canada, Feb 24-Mar 1, 2013
- International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), San Diego, January 29-31, 2013.
- Comsnets 2013: International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, Bangalore, January 7-10, 2013.
- The 2012 Symposium on Emerging Topics in Cotrol and Modeling: Networked Systems, Coordinated Science laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, October 15-16, 2012.
- 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello, October 1-5, 2012.
- MobiCom 2012, Istanbul, August 22-26, 2012.
- 7th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2012), Yellow Mountains, China, August 8-10, 2012.
- Network Science Workshop, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, July 25-27, 2012.
- International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, July 22-25, 2012, Bangalore
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012), Ottawa, Canada, June 10-15, 2012.
- MobiHoc 2012, Hilton Head, South Carolina, June 11-14, 2012.
- IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, Maui, May 13-15, 2012.
- Optimization and Control for Smart Grids: 32nd CNLS Annual Conference, Los Alamos, May 21-25, 2012.
- SRC/SFI/NSF Forum on Integrated Sensors for Cybersystems – FISC 2030, Science Foundation of Ireland, Carton House, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland, March 22-23, 2012.
- School and Workshop on Network Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, January 2-15, 2012.
- Fourth International Conference on Communication Systems and NetworkS (COMSNETS 2012), Bengaluru, January 3-7, 2012.
- Centenary Conference 2011 of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, December 15-17, 2011.
- The Fourth International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAPS 2011), San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 13-16, 2011.
- 19th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2011), Vancouver, Canada, October 17-20, 2011
- The Fifth China Wireless Sensor Network (CWSN2011), Beijing, September 26-27, 2011.
- Preston Green Hall Dedication, Washington University, St. Louis, September 23, 2011.
- Eighth ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking (VANET 2011), Las Vegas, Nevada, September 23, 2011.
- 22nd Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Communications (PIMRC 2011), Toronto, September 11-14, 2011.
- Bangalore: PES Institute of Technology First Graduation Day, September 3, 2011.
- 2011 International Conference on Process Automation Control and Computing (PACC 2011), Coimbatore Institute of Technology, July 20-22, 2011.
- International Conference on Wireless Networks and Embedded Systems (WECON 2011), Chitkara University, July 18-20, 2011.
- Workshop in Real-Time Wireless for Industrial Applications, CPS Week, Chicago, April 11, 2011.
- COMSNETS 2011: The Third International Conference On Communication Systems And Networks, Bengaluru, India, January 4-8, 2011.
- Workshop on SIPS: Smart Infrastructure as Cyber-Physical System, in conjunction with 10th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking – ICDCN 2011, Bengaluru, January 2, 2011.
- IEEE GLOBECOM, Miami, FL, December 6-10, 2010.
- Mathematical Challenges in Stochastic Networks, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, October 17-23, 2010.
- MobiHoc 2010, Chicago, September 20-24, 2010
- National CPS PI Meeting 2010, Arlington, VA, August 10-12, 2010.
- International Conference On Signal Processing and Communications, Indian Institute Of Science, Bangalore, 18-21 July, 2010.
- The Academic Summit on IT VISION 2020, organized by TNList (Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology) and SIST (School of Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University), Tsinghua University, China, July 12-13, 2010.
- New Directions in Wireless Communications and Networking, Tsinghua University, China, July 9-11, 2010.
- NCCR MICS Workshop, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 28-30, 2010.
- Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences. Cambridge, UK, Jan 11-July 2, 2010.
- The Second International Conference On Communication Systems And Networks (Comsnets 2010), Bengaluru, India, Jan 5-10, 2010.
- Seventh ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking (VANET 2010), Chicago, Illinois, September 24, 2010.
- 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and 28th Chinese Control Conference. Shanghai, December 16-18, 2009.
- Paths Ahead in the Science of Information and Decision Systems, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, November 12-14, 2009.
- 1st Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems (NecSys’09), 24-26 September, 2009, Venice.
- 2009 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Bangalore, August 22-25, 2009.
- 3rd HYCON PhD School on Networked Control Systems, Siena, July 7-9, 2009.
- Mathematical Foundations of Complex Networked Information Systems. June 22 – June 26, 2009, Verres (AO), Italy.
- Control Frontiers Workshop: A Workshop to Honor Petar Kokotovic, Santa Barbara, California, May 28-29, 2009.
- ACM MobiHoc S3 Workshop, New Oreans, May 18, 2009.
- Advances in Discrete Event, Nonlinear and Stochastic Systems Modeling and Control: Symposium in Honor of Steve Marcus. Univ. of Maryland, April 18, 2009.
- International Symposium on Probability Theory & Stochastic Processes in honour of Professor S.R.S. Varadhan, February 6-9, 2009, Department of Mathematics, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Kochi.
- The First International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2009), Bangalore, January 5-10, 2009.
- 10th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking – ICDCN 2009. Hyderabad, January 3-6, 2009.
- IISc Centenary Conference, Bangalore, December 13-16, 2008.
- 17th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2008). St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands, August 4-8, 2008.
- Stochastic Networks Conference, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, June 23-28, 2008
- IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, ZhangJiaJie City, Hunan, China, June 20-23, 2008.
- IISc Centenary Conference: Managing Complexity in a Distributed World, May 27-31, Bangalore, India
- Sensor, Signal and Information Processing (SenSIP) Workshop, Sedona, Arizona, May 11-14, 2008
- Second International Workshop on Fundamental Capacity Limits for Wireless Communications, University of Surrey, Guildford UK, April 10, 2008.
- First ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec ’08) Alexandria, VA, March 31–April 2008.
- WISARD 2008: A workshop in COMSWARE, Bangalore, Jan 5-6, 2008.
- ROBOCOMM 2007: First International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination, Athens, Greece, September 10-12, 2007.
- 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC2007), Singapore, October 1-3, 2007.
- 9th IFAC Workshop on Adaptation And Learning In Control And Signal Processing (ALCOSP’07), St. Petersburg, Russia, August 29-31, 2007.
- International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (Qshine 2007), Vancouver, August 14-17, 2007.
- International Conference on Stochastic Processes and Applications, Bangalore, India, July 16 – 21, 2007.
- First International Workshop on Information Theory for Sensor Networks (WITS 2007), Santa Fe, New Mexico, 20, 2007.
- DCOSS ’07: International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems. Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 18-20, 2007.
- The 29th Finnish Summer School on Probability Theory, Nagu/Nauvo, Nagu Gammelgård, Finland, June 4-8, 2007.
- IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, Sedona, Arizona, May 20-23, 2007.
- IEEE Infocomm: 6th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, 6-12 May, 2007 Anchorage, Alaska, USA
- ConCom: Control over Communication Channels, April 16-20 2007, Limassol, Cyprus.
- Mathematical Challenges and Opportunities in Sensor Networking, Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics, Los Angeles, Jan 8-12, 2007.
- The Croucher Foundation Advanced Study Institute: Wireless Sensor Networks, City University of Hong Kong, December 4-8,2006.
- A Conference in Honor of Thomas I. Seidman: Advances in Control of Partial Differential Equations, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, October 28-29, 2006.
- MASS 2006: The Third IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems, October 9 – 12, 2006, Vancouver, Canada.
- Towards a Science of Networks Workshop: Communication Networks and Complexity, August 31-Sep 1, 2006, Athens, Greece.
- IVth Conference on Limit Theorems in Probability Theory and Their Applications, August 21 -August 25, 2006, Novosibirsk, Russia.
- ALGOSENSORS 2006: International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks, July 15 2006, Venice, Italy.
- Dynamo Training School, 28th June-1st July, 2006, Lisbon, Portugal.
- 2006 Conference on Stochastic Networks, June 19-24, 2006, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop: Future Directions in Systems Research for Networked Sensing, May 25–26, 2006, Boston University.
- 2006 IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, May 21–24, 2006, Dorado, Puerto Rico.
- International Conference on Management Sciences: Optimization Models & Applications – In Honor of Suresh P. Sethi, May 20–22, 2006, The University of Texas at Dallas.
- Second Workshop on Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks (SPASWIN), April 7, 2006, Boston.
- Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2006), March 29-31, 2006, Santa Barbara, USA.
- Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), March 22–24, 2006, Princeton, NJ.
- Second World Congress in Lateral Computing, December 16-18, 2005, Bangalore.
- Third International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, December 14-17, 2005, Bangalore.
- Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, October 30 – Nov. 2, 2005, Pacific Grove. CA.
- IFIP Performace 2005, October 3-7, 2005, Juan les-Pins, France.
- 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Sep 4-9, 2005, Adelaide, Australia.
- ACM E-WIND 2005: Workshop on Experimental Approaches to Wireless Network Design and Analysis, August 22, 2005, Philadelphia.
- WICON’05 First International Conference on Wireless Internet, Budapest, July 10-15, 2005.
- Symposium on Systems, Control and Networks in Honor of Professor Pravin Varaiya on his 65th Birthday, June 5-7, 2005, Berkeley, CA.
- MobiHoc 2005: 6th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, May 25-28, 2005, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
- The Economics, Technology and Policy of Unlicensed Spectrum, May 16-17, 2005, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
- IFIP Networking 2005, Waterloo, Canada, May 2-6, 2005.
- The Fourth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN’05), April 25-27, 2005, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Models of Real-World Random Networks, MSRI, Univ. of California, Berkeley, April 18-22, 2005.
- Workshop on Integrated Control, Estimation and Communication, California Institute of Technology, March 31 – April 2, 2005.
- Wireless Foundations Workshop, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Feb. 11, 2005.
- 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec. 14-17, 2004, Bahamas
- ACM Sensys ’04, Nov, 3-5, 2004, Baltimore, MD.
- 2004 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, October 24-29, 2004. San Antonio, Texas.
- 19th IEEE Annual Computer Communications Workshop, October 17-20, 2004, Bonita Springs, Florida
- Tutorials at Mobicom 2004. September 26, 2004. Philadelphia, PA. The Capri School on Wireless Communication, Sep. 13-17, 2004, Capri, Italy.
- The 2004 National Summit for Community Wireless Networks, August 20-22, 2004, Urbana, IL.
- 2004 Stochastic Networks Conference, Montreal, July 18-23, 2004.
- Mesh Networking Summit, Microsoft, Redmond, June 23-24, 2004. Redmond, Washington.
- Workshop on spatial stochastic modelling, with applications to communications, 9-12 June 2004, Edinburgh.
- IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, May 5-8, 2004, Capri, Italy.
- Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN ’04) ,April 26-27, 2004, Berkeley, CA.
- The 7th Informs Telecommunication Conference, March 7–10, 2004, Boca Raton, Florida.
- 2004 International Zurich Seminar on Communications, February 18-20, 2004. Zurich, Switzerland.
- IEEE TENCON’2003, October 15-17, 2003, Bangalore, India.
- PWC 2003: The Eighth International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications, , September 23-24, 2003, Venice, Italy.
- Sensor Networks: Theory and Military Applications, Aug 27, 2003, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
- Probability and Statistical Mechanics in Information Science, May 20 – July 20, 2003, Centro Di Ricerca Matematica, Ennio De Giorgi, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy.
- The 2nd International Workshop on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN ’03), April 22-23, 2003, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, California, USA.
- DIMACS Workshop on Network Information Theory, March 17 – 19, 2003, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.
- WiOpt’03: Modeling and Optimization in Mobile and Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks ,March 3 – 5, 2003, Sophia-Antipolis, France.
- NCCR Annual Workshop On Mobile Information and Communication Systems 2003, February 13, 2003, Zurich, Switzerland.
- International Workshop on Stochastic Models and IV International Workshop on Retrial Queues, Cochin, India, December 17-21, 2002.
- IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Bangalore, India, October 20-25, 2002.
- IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics, Allerton Park, Monticello, Illinois, USA, August 26-30, 2002.
- 10th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Lisbon, Portugal, July 9-13, 2002.
- Conference on Stochastic Networks, June 24-29, 2002, Stanford University
- IEEE High-Speed Networking Workshop – HSN 2002, June 23, 2002, New York
- Massively Distributed Self-Organizing Networks, May 13-17, 2002. Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
- The Fifth Stochastik-Tage: German Open Conference on Probability and Statistics, Magdeburg, Germany, March 19-22, 2002
- European Wireless Conference, Florence, Italy, Feb 26-28, 2002.
- Illinois/Berkeley Student Workshop on Wireless Networks and Convergence, CSL, Urbana, November 17-18, 2001
- Stochastic Theory and Control Workshop, University of Kansas, Oct. 18-20, 2001.
- NSF Workshop on an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems , The Convergence of Information Technologies and Communications, Scottsdale, Arizona, Oct. 15, 2001.
- ITCOM + OPTICOMM 2001: The Convergence of Information Technologies and Communications, Denver, August 19-24, 2001.
- Workshop on Wireless Networks, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, MN, August 8-10, 2001.
- 2001 SIAM Annual Meeting, July 9-13, 2001, San Diego, California
- Symposium on Complex Systems Modeling and Optimization in the Information Age To Celebrate 45 Years of Outstanding Contribution of Prof. Yu-Chi Larry Ho, June 23-24, 2001, Harvard University
- NSF/ONR Workshop on Cross-Layer Design in Adaptive Ad Hoc Networks: From Signal Processing to Global Networking, May 31-June 1, 2001, Cornell University
- Information Technology in South Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America: Progress, Problems, and Prospects, Saturday, April 28, 2001, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Conference on Stochastic Networks, June 19-24, 2000, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Panel on Future Directions in Control and Dynamical Systems, Washington, DC, June 16-17, 2000.
- Stochastic Geometry and Teletraffic, EURANDOM, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 25-26, 2000
- The Astrom Symposium on Control, August 28, 1999, Lund Sweden
- IMS Workshop on Applied Probability, May 31-June 11, 1999, The Chinese University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong
Awards and Honors
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- 2022 IEEE Alexandar Graham Bell Award, For seminal contributions to the modeling, analysis, and design of wireless networks.
- 2018 Fellow Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
- 2013 Honorary doctorate ETH Zurich
- 2012 ACM SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award, For pioneering contributions to the foundations of asymptotic performance analysis of large scale wireless networks.
- 2007 National Academy of Engineering, For contributions to adaptive control, manufacturing systems, and wireless networks.
- 2007 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize, Toward a Theory of In-Network Computation in Wireless Sensor Networks
- 2006 IEEE Control Systems Award, For contributions to adaptive control, manufacturing systems and wireless communications
Brief Bio
P. R. Kumar obtained his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) from I.I.T. Madras in 1973, and the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University, St. Louis in 1975 and 1977, respectively. From 1977-84, he was a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. From 1985-2011, he was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois, where he remains a Franklin W. Woeltge Emeritus Professor. Currently he is at Texas A&M University where he is a University Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor, and O’Donnell Foundation Chair I.
Kumar has worked on problems in game theory, adaptive control, simulated annealing, machine learning, queueing networks, manufacturing systems, scheduling wafer fabrication plants, wireless networks and network information theory. His current research focus includes renewable energy, power systems, security, privacy, automated transportation, unmanned aerial vehicle traffic management, millimeter wave 5G, and cyber-physical systems.
Kumar is a member of the National Academy of Engineering of the USA, the World Academy of Sciences, and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by ETH (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zurich. He received the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE Field Award for Control Systems, the Donald P. Eckman Award of American Automatic Control Council, the Fred Ellersick Prize of IEEE Communications Society, the Outstanding Contribution Award of ACM SIGMOBILE, the Infocom Achievement Award, and SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award. He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE and IFAC. He is an Honorary Professor at IIT Hyderabad, and Franklin Woeltge Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras, the Alumni Achievement Award from Washington University in St. Louis, and the Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award from the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois.
Reinforcement Learning
Reward Biased Maximum Likelihood Estimation:
The exploration-exploitation trade-off remains a challenging issue in reinforcement learning. A novel class of model-based learning algorithms, RBMLE can be applied to various learning tasks such as Markov decision processes, stochastic bandits, linear quadratic systems, and contextual bandits. Theoretical analysis shows that RBMLE has comparable regret bounds to state-of-the-art methods. Empirical results show that RBMLE outperforms existing techniques, including Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) and Thompson Sampling.
Publications:
Augmented RBMLE-UCB Approach for Adaptive Control of Linear Quadratic Systems,
Akshay Mete, R. Singh & P. R. Kumar , NeurIPS 2022
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10542
Reward Biased Maximum Likelihood Estimation ,
Akshay Mete, R. Singh & P. R. Kumar, CSS 2022 (Invited Paper)
Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9751189
Reward Biased Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Reinforcement Learning,
Akshay Mete, R. Singh & P. R. Kumar, L4DC 2021
Link: http://proceedings.mlr.press/v144/mete21a.html
Reward-Biased Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Linear Stochastic Bandits
Yu-Heng Hung, Ping-Chun Hsieh, Xi Liu, P. R. Kumar, AAAI 2021
Link:https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/16961/16768
Exploration Through Reward Biasing: Reward-Biased Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Stochastic Multi-Armed Bandits
Xi Liu, Ping-Chun Hsieh, Yu Heng Hung, A. Bhattacharya, P. R. Kumar, ICML 2020.
Link: https://proceedings.mlr.press/v119/liu20g.html
Provable Learning with Real-World Constraints:
(Reinforcement) learning methods have been playing important roles in many fields, e.g., manipulating robotics, playing computer games, chip placement design, and recommendation systems. However, it is challenging to extend such success to real-world applications by directly applying existing approaches. Real-world systems are always subject to several constraints, including safety, multiple objectives, simulation-to-reality gap, multi-agent cooperation/competition, small sample size, etc. To deal with these challenges, we have done a series of works about safe RL, multi-objective RL, robust RL, multi-agent RL, and learning from few samples.
Safe and Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning:
The goal of safe RL is to learn a policy to maximize the objective while satisfying the safety constraints. We solve several open problems under this topic.
1. Previous OFU (optimism in the face of uncertainty) style algorithms can learn the safe policy, but naïve OFU algorithms violate the constraints during learning. We propose two new algorithms that can achieve an O(√K) regret with respect to the performance objective, while guaranteeing zero or bounded safety constraint violation with arbitrarily high probability.
2. Previous policy gradient-based algorithms for constraint MDPs suffer from an O(1/ √T) convergence rate. We propose a new policy mirror descent-primal dual approach that can provably achieve a faster O(log(T)/T) convergence rate for both the optimality gap and the constraint violation and enjoy superior empirical performance compared to previous methods.
The goal of multi-objective RL is to optimize a policy for multiple objectives simultaneously. Based on the system requirements, the agent can employ different criteria on value vectors, e.g., proportional fairness, hard constraints, max-min trade-off. Previously, there was no systematic way to design policy gradient-based algorithms for multi-objective RL and no systematic theory to analyze convergence rate under all scenarios. We propose an Anchor-changing Regularized Natural Policy Gradient (ARNPG) framework, which achieves O(log(T)/T) global convergence with exact gradients and enjoys superior empirical performance compared to some existing policy gradient-based approaches in both exact gradients and sample-based deep RL scenarios.
Publications:
Tao Liu, Ruida Zhou, Dileep Kalathil, P. R. Kumar, and Chao Tian. “Learning Policies with Zero or Bounded Constraint Violation for Constrained MDPs.” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34 (2021): 17183-17193. [link]
Tao Liu, Ruida Zhou, Dileep Kalathil, P. R. Kumar, and Chao Tian. “Policy Optimization for Constrained MDPs with Provable Fast Global Convergence.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.00552 (2021). [link] [code]
Ruida Zhou, Tao Liu, Dileep Kalathil, P. R. Kumar, and Chao Tian. “Anchor-Changing Regularized Natural Policy Gradient for Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning.” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 (2022): 13584-13596. [link] [code]
Robust Reinforcement Learning:
The goal of robust RL is to determine a well-performing policy that is robust against model mismatch between the training simulator and the testing environment. Previous policy-based robust RL algorithms mainly focus on the tabular setting under uncertainty sets that facilitate robust policy evaluation, but are no longer tractable when the number of states scales up. To this end, we propose two novel uncertainty set formulations, one based on double sampling and the other on an integral probability metric. Both make large-scale robust RL tractable even when one only has access to a simulator. We propose a robust natural actor-critic (RNAC) approach that incorporates the new uncertainty sets and employs function approximation. We provide finite-time convergence guarantees for the proposed RNAC algorithm to the optimal robust policy within the function approximation error. Finally, we demonstrate the robust performance of the policy learned by our proposed RNAC approach in multiple MuJoCo environments and a real-world TurtleBot navigation task.
Publication:
Ruida Zhou, Tao Liu, Min Cheng, Dileep Kalathil, P. R. Kumar, and Chao Tian. “Natural Actor-Critic for Robust Reinforcement Learning with Function Approximation.” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (2023). [link] [code]
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning:
The goal of multi-agent RL is to learn a policy that cooperates or competes among several agents. We study an independent natural policy gradient (NPG) algorithm for the multi-agent reinforcement learning problem in Markov potential games. It is shown that, under mild technical assumptions and the introduction of the suboptimality gap, the independent NPG method with an oracle providing exact policy evaluation asymptotically reaches an \epsilon-Nash Equilibrium (NE) within O(1/\epsilon) iterations. This improves upon the previous best result of O(1/\epsilon^2) iterations and is of the same order, O(1/\epsilon), that is achievable for the single-agent case. Empirical results for a synthetic potential game and a congestion game are presented to verify the theoretical bounds.
Publication:
Youbang Sun, Tao Liu, Ruida Zhou, P. R. Kumar, Shahin Shahrampour, “Provably Fast Convergence of Independent Natural Policy Gradient for Markov Potential Games.” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (2023). [link] [code]
Learning from Few Samples:
Motivated by the problem of learning with small sample sizes, we show how to incorporate into support-vector machines (SVMs) those properties that have made convolutional neural networks (CNNs) successful. Particularly important is the ability to incorporate domain knowledge of invariances, e.g., translational invariance of images. Kernels based on the maximum similarity over a group of transformations are not generally positive definite. Perhaps it is for this reason that they have not been studied theoretically. We address this lacuna and show that positive definiteness indeed holds with high probability for kernels based on the maximum similarity in the small training sample set regime of interest, and that they do yield the best results in that regime. We also show how additional properties such as their ability to incorporate local features at multiple spatial scales, e.g., as done in CNNs through max pooling, and to provide the benefits of composition through the architecture of multiple layers, can also be embedded into SVMs. We verify through experiments on widely available image sets that the resulting SVMs do provide superior accuracy in comparison to well-established deep neural network benchmarks for small sample sizes.
Publication:
Tao Liu, P. R. Kumar, Ruida Zhou, and Xi Liu. “Learning from Few Samples: Transformation-Invariant SVMs with Composition and Locality at Multiple Scales.” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 (2022): 9151-9163. [link] [code]
Cyber Physical Systems
Cyber-Security for Networked Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
Networked Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) refer to control systems that involve multiple computing nodes and diverse agents interacting with the physical world. These agents can consist of intelligent systems or robotic agents deployed in real-world applications. CPS are composed of a combination of physical components, such as plants, processes, or systems, and cyber components, such as software, code, and computation that are interconnected through a network, which can be either wired or wireless. The integration and cooperation of physical and cyber components are beneficial for CPS; however, the presence of networked cyber and physical components renders them vulnerable to potential cyber-attacks and other disruptive events.
In light of the fact that numerous networked CPS are utilized to support critical infrastructures or are classified as safety-critical systems, it is crucial to examine the feasibility of securing these systems against cyber threats and ensuring their adaptability to potential disruptions. The deployment of networked CPS, including Autonomous Vehicles, Chemical Process Control Systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs), Smart Energy Systems, etc. are typically reliant on sensor measurements to enable closed-loop control. As a result, these control systems are susceptible to cyber-attacks, whereby malicious agents may compromise the sensors or the networks that transmit sensor measurements.
We developed a general-purpose cyber-attack defense methodology for defending networked CPS against arbitrary cyber-attacks, which is called “Dynamic Watermarking (DW)”. Our DW method has been tested on prototype chemical process control system (coupled water tanks), mechanical system (helicopter), the power system with power electronics (grid-tied inverter), industrial adjustable speed drive system, and vehicular system (autonomous car).
Publications:
Jaewon Kim, Hasan Ibrahim, Shaozhe Wang, Akshay Mete, Le Xie, Prasad Enjeti, and P. R. Kumar, “Cyber-Secure and Safe Operation of Solar Photovoltaic Power Distribution Systems”. will be appear IEEE APEC (Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition) 2024.
Huang, Peng-Hao, Jaewon Kim, P. R. Kumar, Jeyavijayan JV Rajendran, and Prasad Enjeti. “Enhancing Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems: Innovations in Protecting PLC-dependent Industrial Infrastructures.” (2023).
(Submitted and Under Review now)
Ibrahim, Hasan, Jaewon Kim, Jorge Ramos-Ruiz, Woo Hyun Ko, Tong Huang, Prasad Enjeti, P. R. Kumar, and Le Xie. “Detection of cyber attacks in grid-tied pv systems using dynamic watermarking.” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications (2023).
Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10268968
Ko, Woo-Hyun, Jorge A. Ramos-Ruiz, Tong Huang, Jaewon Kim, Hasan Ibrahim, Prasad N. Enjeti, P. R. Kumar, and Le Xie. “Robust Dynamic Watermarking for Cyber-Physical Security of Inverter-Based Resources in Power Distribution Systems.” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2023).
Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10242131
Alotaibi, Faris H., Hasan Ibrahim, Jaewon Kim, P. R. Kumar, and Prasad Enjeti. “Designing an Intrusion Detection for an Adjustable Speed Drive System Controlling a Critical Process.” IEEE Access (2023).
Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10188841
Alotaibi, Faris H., Hasan Ibrahim, Jaewon Kim, and Prasad Enjeti. “A Method to Detect Man in the Middle Attack (MiTM) on a Grid Following PV Inverter.” In 2023 IEEE 24th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2023.
Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10221187
Lantian Shangguan, Kenny Chour, Woo Hyun Ko, Jaewon Kim, Gopal Krishna Kamath, Bharadwaj Satchidanandan, Swaminathan Gopalswamy, and P. R. Kumar. “Dynamic watermarking for cybersecurity of autonomous vehicles.” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2022).
Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9994719
Jaewon Kim, Akshay Mete, and P. R. Kumar. “Safe Control of Networked Chemical Process Plants Under Cyber-Attacks.” In 2022 AIChE Annual Meeting. AIChE, 2022.
Link: https://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/644720
Faris Alotaibi, Hasan Ibrahim, Jaewon Kim, and Prasad Enjeti. “Designing an Intrusion Proof Adjustable Speed Drive System Controlling a Critical Process.” In 2022 IEEE 13th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), pp. 1-7. IEEE, 2022.
Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9923160
Hasan Ibrahim, Jaewon Kim, Prasad Enjeti, P. R. Kumar, and Le Xie. “Detection of cyber attacks in grid- tied pv systems using dynamic watermarking.” In 2022 IEEE Green Technologies Conference (GreenTech), pp. 57-61. IEEE, 2022.
Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9772036
Hasan Ibrahim, Jorge Ramos-Ruiz, Jaewon Kim, Woo Hyun Ko, Tong Huang, Prasad Enjeti, P. R. Kumar, and Le Xie. “An active detection scheme for sensor spoofing in grid-tied pv systems.” In 2021 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), pp. 1433-1439. IEEE, 2021.
Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9595733
Tong Huang, Jorge Ramos-Ruiz, Woo-Hyun Ko, Jaewon Kim, Prasad Enjeti, P. R. Kumar, and Le Xie. “Enabling secure peer-to-peer energy transactions through dynamic watermarking in electric distribution grids: Defending the distribution system against sophisticated cyberattacks with a provable guarantee.” IEEE Electrification Magazine 9, no. 3 (2021): 55-64.
Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9528341
Jorge Ramos-Ruiz, Hasan Ibrahim, Jaewon Kim, Woo Hyun Ko, Tong Huang, Prasad Enjeti, P. R. Kumar, and Le Xie. “Validation of a Robust Cyber Shield for a Grid Connected PV Inverter System via Digital Watermarking Principle.” In 2021 IEEE 12th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2021.
Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9494227
Jaewon Kim, Woo-Hyun Ko, and P. R. Kumar. “Cyber-Security through Dynamic Watermarking for 2-rotor Aerial Vehicle Flight Control Systems.” In 2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 1277-1283. IEEE, 2021.
Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9476684
Jorge Ramos-Ruiz, Jaewon Kim, Woo-Hyun Ko, Tong Huang, Prasad Enjeti, P. R. Kumar, and Le Xie. “An active detection scheme for cyber attacks on grid-tied PV systems.” In 2020 IEEE CyberPELS (CyberPELS), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2020.
Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9311539
Jaewon Kim, and P. R. Kumar. “Security of Control Systems with Erroneous Observations.” IFAC- PapersOnLine 53, no. 2 (2020): 2225-2230.
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896320302433
Jaewon Kim, Woo-Hyun Ko, and P. R. Kumar. “Cyber-security with dynamic watermarking for process control systems.” In 2019 AIChE Annual Meeting. AIChE, 2019.
Link: https://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2019/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/577246
Power Systems
A Multi-Harmonic Method for Real Time Capacitor Condition Monitoring in Adjustable Speed Drive Systems for Industry 4.0
Capacitor age monitoring is essential in power electronics since the age of the capacitor significantly affects the performance of the overall system. The life of a capacitor is measured using the ESR resistance associated with the capacitor. The capacitor needs to be replaced once the ESR resistor’s resistance doubles. Now typical Adjustable Speed Drives have capacitors in the DC link. Commonly ASD failures are attributed to wear and tear of the DC link capacitors. The proposed multi-harmonic method estimates the ESR resistance of the DC-link capacitor and its capacitance value using DC-link voltage and current measurements as obtained from the ASD. This implies that no additional sensors or signals are required for capacitor condition monitoring. This method has shown to be operational in both balanced and unbalanced voltage operating conditions and we envision its deployment as a cloud based algorithm to help monitor several ASD systems in an industrial setting leading to the Industry 4.0 standard.
mmWave and Cellular Networks
We work on Cellular Standards, and an academic member of 3GPP, and maintain strong relations with the Industry.
Our students played significant role in the development of research 5G network at TAMU Rellis.
mmWave Networks
Our work addressed the most important problem: Beam Management. mmWave networks communicate use narrow beams, therefore user mobility and blockage impacts the link

mmWave Testbed
User mobility requires continually switching of beams and to avoid outage during blockage, Non-Line of Sight path communication is a must
We developed minimalist beam management algorithms for mmWave Systems. Our protocols are implemented on 60 GHz Software defined radios of National Instruments
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A Directional MAC Protocol With Applications to Millimeter-Wave Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
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UNBLOCK: Low Complexity Transient Blockage Recovery for Mobile mm-Wave Devices
Demonstration Videos: Non Line of Sight Link Operation LoS Link Operation: Walking User LoS Link Operation: Rotational Motion
Man-in-the-Middle Attacks in Cellular Networks
Want to detect Cell-site simulators ?! Please look at our arxiv paper, it’s in the media too!
Please write to santosh@tamu.edu for demonstrations and further details

Full Duplex and Double Full Duplex Man-in-the-Middle Attack on 4G/5G Networks
AI in Health Care
Suppressing Epileptic Seizures using the power of Neural Networks
An Epileptic seizure is defined as a transient synchronous neuronal activity which may temporarily lead to loss of motor functions. About 50 Million people worldwide suffer from Epilepsy and about 1.9% deaths in Epileptic patients are due to prolonged seizures. Currently medication and surgery are dominant solutions to this problem however both have severe downsides in terms of loss in quality of life. A new approach is based on stimulating the brain using a chip (electroceutical device) inserted in the epicenter of seizure activity. Thus, the problem statement is designing a detection and prediction algorithm to be used in this closed-loop electroceutical device which will be used to treat epilepsy and potentially also treat other brain disorders.
Cyberphysical Systems Lab
Overview of the system
An introduction and overview description of the system as well as a demo of some of the capabilities on the testbed. In particular, it focuses on the concept of ‘local temporal autonomy’ and demonstrates how the vehicles deal with communication, localization or other failures and how it recovers from them.
Tackling Autonomous Vehicle Cybersecurity Issues
This video illustrates that the dynamic watermarking method successfully detects and responds to attacks on the position sensors which can otherwise cause collisions on a laboratory autonomous transportation system
Seven Cars Scheduled in a City Traffic Scenario
This is a simulation of traffic flow through a grid traffic network. Individual cars are controlled by their own controller, however they get information on routes from a central traffic scheduler. The routes and schedules are updated periodically in order to account for new cars joining the system, cars behaving erratically or new goals. The result is a successful demonstration of a network of sensors and actuators controlled over a network of computation nodes and communication links. It does not illustrate good parking ability though and motivated the development of a collision avoidance system. (A map of the city grid is available here).
Watch on YouTube
Eight Cars Scheduled in a City Traffic Scenario
A similar demonstration as the one above except with 8 cars.
Watch on YouTube
Automatic Parking
Shows a car moving from one bin, through the traffic system to another bin and successfully parking. (A map of the city grid is available here).
Cars Moving in a Figure Eight
A nice illustration system operation and performance.
Principle of Safety Preserving Security Overrides
This demonstration illustrates the principle of safety preserving security overrides. This principle states that, in control systems, low-level safety features such as collision avoidance should not be overridden by higher level security overrides in general.
Collision Avoidance Implementation
This is an overview of the performance of the collision avoidance algorithm that we have implemented on the testbed. An illustration of the original problem as well as several different scenarios are presented. (This effectively eliminates situations like the one on the left!)
Component Restart Using Middleware
Illustrates the ability of the system to handle the restart of a component. During normal operation a controller for an individual car is halted and then restarted with no noticeable effect on the system performance.
Component Migration Using Middleware
Component failure of communication errors may require a component to be moved from one node to another. This video is an example of how migration has been developed and implemented in the middleware.
Component Upgrade Using Middleware
Since components can be halted and restarted without affecting the system performance there is no reason that we could not halt a particular component and start a different (perhaps better) one in its place. This video illustrates the replacement of car controllers with no adverse affects on the system.
Car Going on a Gun Shot
In collaboration with some other CSL researchers, the testbed was used to illustrate a target localization problem. Several small ‘motes’ were used to identify the location of a small gunshot. This information was passed to a controller on the testbed which computes a route to get a car to the location.
Crash
Things don’t always go as planned – and here is an example from before collision avoidance was implemented correctly…just to keep us honest!
Experimental Results Involving Delay
This video illustrates how performance is degraded in the presence of delays. The car attempting to follow a rectangular trajectory. However, the feedback is delayed by 700ms and the video illustrates the effect of known vs. unknown delay.
Recent Publications
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Articles in Journals (In reverse chronological order):
- Lu Zhang, Bin Wang, Xiangtian Zheng, Weiping Shi, P. R. Kumar and Le Xie, “A Hierarchical Low-Rank Approximation Based Network Solver for EMT Simulation,” To appear in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Mar 2020
- Bharadwaj Satchidanandan and and P. R. Kumar, “On the Design of Security-Guaranteeing Dynamic Watermarks.” To appear in IEEE Control Systems Letters, April 2020. (Also presented at 2019 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control).
- Woo Hyun Ko, Bharadwaj Satchidanandan and P. R. Kumar, “Dynamic Watermarking-Based Defense of Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems.” To appear in ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS): Special Issue on Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems, November 2019.
- M. Sadegh Modarresi, Le Xie, Marco C. Campi, Simone Garatti, Algo Care, Anupam A. Thatte and P. R. Kumar, “Scenario-based Economic Dispatch with Tunable Risk Levels in High-renewable Power Systems.” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol, 34, Issue 6, pp. 5103-5114, November 2019.
- Fernando A.C.C. Fontes, Abhishek Halder, Jorge Becerril and P. R. Kumar, “Optimal Control of Thermostatic Loads for Planning Aggregate Consumption: Characterization of Solution and Explicit Strategies.” IEEE Control Systems Letters, Oct. 2019. (Also presented at 2019 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control).
- Rahul Singh, P. R. Kumar and Eytan Modiano, “Adaptive CSMA for Decentralized Scheduling of Multi-Hop Networks with End-to-End Deadline Constraints,” submitted to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Submitted May 30, 2019.
- Hao Ming, Le Xie, Marco Campi, Simone Garatti and P. R. Kumar, “Scenario-based Economic Dispatch with Uncertain Demand Response.” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Volume 10, Issue 2, pp. 1858-1868, March 2019.
- Abhishek Halder, Xinbo Geng, Fernando A.C.C. Fontes, P. R. Kumar and Le Xie, “Optimal Power Consumption for Demand Response of Thermostatically Controlled Loads.” Optimal Control Applications and Methods, pp. 68-84, Volume 40, Issue 1, January-February 2019.
- Rahul Singh and P. R. Kumar, “Throughput Optimal Decentralized Scheduling of Multihop Networks With End-to-End Deadline Constraints: Unreliable Links.” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 64, issue 1, number 1, pp. 127-142, January 2019.
- Rahul Singh and P. R. Kumar, “Optimal Decentralized Dynamic Policies for Video Streaming over Wireless Channels,” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Submitted January 6, 2019.
- Ke Ma and P. R. Kumar, “Incentive Compatibility in Stochastic Dynamic Systems.” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Submitted January 4, 2019.
- Tong Huang, Nikolaos M. Freris, P. R. Kumar and Le Xie, “Forced Oscillation Localization in Electric Power Systems under Resonance Conditions.” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Submitted December 15, 2018.
- Tong Huang, Bharadwaj Satchidanandan, P. R. Kumar and Le Xie, “An Online Detection Framework for Cyber Attacks on Automatic Generation Control.” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, pp. 6816-6827, Vol. 3, Issue 6, November 2018.
- Rahul Singh, P. R. Kumar and Le Xie, “Decentralized Control via Dynamic Stochastic Prices: The Independent System Operator Problem” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 63, issue 10, pp. 3206-3220, Oct. 2018.
- Xueying Guo, Rahul Singh, P. R. Kumar and Zhisheng Niu, “A Risk-Sensitive Approach for Packet Inter-Delivery Time Optimization in Networked Cyber-Physical Systems.” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 24, issue 4, pp. 1976-1989, August 2018.
- Arun Padakandla, P. R. Kumar and Wojciech Szpankowski, “The Trade-off between Privacy and Fidelity via Ehrhart Theory,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, March 2018.
- Abhishek Halder, Xinbo Geng, P. R. Kumar, and Le Xie, “Architecture and Algorithms for Privacy Preserving Thermal Inertial Load Management by a Load Serving Entity.” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 3275-3286, July 2017.
- Luoyi Fu, Xinbing Wang and P. R. Kumar, “Are We Connected? Optimal Determination of Source-Destination Connectivity in Random Networks.” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 751-764, April 2017.
- Jonathan Ponniah, Yih-Chun Hu and P. R. Kumar, “A Clean Slate Approach to Secure Ad Hoc Wireless Networking-Open Unsynchronized Networks” IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems: Special Issue on Secure Control of Cyber Physical Systems, Vol. 4, Issue 1, pp. 37-48, March 2017.
- Bharadwaj Satchidanandan and P. R. Kumar, “Dynamic Watermarking: Active Defense of Networked Cyber–Physical Systems” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 105, No. 2, pp. 219-240, February 2017.
- Jonathan Ponniah, Yih-Chun Hu and P. R. Kumar, “A System-Theoretic Clean Slate Approach to Provably Secure Ad Hoc Wireless Networking.” IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 206 – 217, June 2016.
- Yan Gao, Chee Wei Tan, Shan Lin, Ying Huang, Zheng Zeng and P. R. Kumar, “Characterization and Optimization of Delay Guarantees for Real-time Multimedia Traffic Flows in IEEE 802.11 WLANs.” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 1090-1104, May 2016.
- Xueying Guo, Zhisheng Niu, Sheng Zhou and and P. R. Kumar, “Delay-Constrained Energy-Optimal Base Station Sleeping Control” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications – Series on Green Communications and Networking (Issue 1). pp 1073-1085, vol. 34, no. 5, May 2016.
- Zhisheng Niu, Xueying Guo, Sheng Zhou and and P. R. Kumar, “Characterizing Energy–Delay Tradeoff in Hyper-Cellular Networks With Base Station Sleeping Control.” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications: Bonus Issue for Emerging Technologies, vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 641-650, April 2015.
- Kyoung-Dae Kim and P. R. Kumar, “An MPC-based Approach to Provable System-wide Safety and Liveness of Autonomous Ground Traffic.” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Special Issue on Control of Cyber-Physical Systems.” Vol. 59, no. 12, pp. 3341-3356, December 2014.
- Le Xie, Yang Chen and P. R. Kumar, “Dimensionality Reduction of Synchrophasor Data for Early Event Detection: Linearized Analysis.” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Vol. 29, No. 6, pp. 2784-2794, November 2014.
- K. J. Åström and P. R. Kumar, “Control: A Perspective,” Automatica, vol. 50, pp. 3-43, January 2014. Invited Paper.
- Kyoung-Dae Kim and P. R. Kumar, “A Real-Time Middleware for Networked Control Systems and Application to an Unstable System.” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 25, no.5, pp. 1898-1906, September 2013.
- Kyoung-Dae Kim and P. R. Kumar, “An Overview and Some Challenges in Cyber-Physical Systems.” Journal of the Indian Institute of Science. pp. 341-351, Vol. 93:3, July-September 2013.
- Anand Muralidhar and P. R. Kumar, “Near-optimal quantization and linear network coding for relay networks.” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, pp. 2777-2793, vol. 59, number 5, May 2013.
- Hemant Kowshik and P. R. Kumar, “Optimal Computation of Symmetric Boolean Functions in Collocated Networks.” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications: In-Network Computation: Exploring the Fundamental Limits, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 639-654, April 2013.
- Kyoung-Dae Kim and P. R. Kumar, “Prolog to the Section on Cyber-Physical Systems.” Proceedings of the IEEE: Centennial Issue, pp. 1285-1286, vol. 100, no. 13, May 13th, 2012. (Invited Paper).
- Kyoung-Dae Kim and P. R. Kumar, “Cyber-Physical Systems: A Perspective at the Centennial.” Proceedings of the IEEE: Centennial Issue, pp. 1287-1308, vol. 100, no. 13, May 13th, 2012. (Invited Paper).
- I-Hong Hou and P. R. Kumar, “Real-Time Communication over Unreliable Wireless Links: A Theory and Its Applications.” IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 19, issue 1, pp. 48-59, February 2012.
- Jonathan Ponniah, Yih-Chun Hu and P. R. Kumar, “An Orthogonal Multiple Access Coding Scheme.” Communications in Information and Systems: Special Issue in Honor of Professor Han-Fu Chen. pp. 41-76, vol. 12, no. 1, 2012.
Articles in Conference Proceedings (In reverse chronological order):
- M. Sadegh Modarresi, Le Xie, Marco C. Campi, Simone Garatti, Algo Care, Anupam A. Thatte and P.R. Kumar, “Scenario-Based Economic Dispatch With Tunable Risk Levels in High-Renewable Power Systems.” 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), August 2-6, 2020, Atlanta, GA.
- Bharadwaj Satchidanandan and P. R. Kumar, “The Watermark-Securable Subspace of a Linear System Containing a Single Malicious Actuator.” To appear in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS 2020), Bengaluru, India, January 7-11, 2020.
- Jaewon Kim, Woo Hyun Ko and P. R. Kumar, “Cyber-Security with Dynamic Watermarking for Process Control Systems.” To appear in 2019 AIChE Annual Meeting (Topical Conference: Next-Gen Manufacturing), November 10-15, 2019, Orlando.
- Rahul Singh, Gopal Krishna Kamath and P. R. Kumar, “Optimal Information Updating based on Value of Information.” To appear in Proceedings of the 57th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, September 25-27, 2019, Allerton Retreat Center, Monticello, IL.
- Woo Hyun Ko and P. R. Kumar, “Probability-based Collision Detection and Resolution of Planned Trajectories for Unmanned Aircraft System Trac Management.” Proceedings of 2019 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS 2019), pp. 938-943, June 11-14, Atlanta, GA, USA.
- Ping-Chun Hsieh, Xi Liu, Anirban Bhattacharya and P. R. Kumar, “Stay With Me: Lifetime Maximization Through Heteroscedastic Linear Bandits With Reneging.” Proceedings of the Thirty-sixth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2019), Long Beach, June 9-15, 2019. [Acceptance rate 22.6 %].
- Fernando A.C.C. Fontes, Abhishek Halder, Jorge Becerril and P. R. Kumar, “Optimal Control of Thermostatic Loads for Planning Aggregate Consumption: Characterization of Solution and Explicit Strategies.” IEEE Control Systems Letters, Volume: 3 , Issue: 4, 24th May 2019.
- Bharadwaj Satchidanandan and and P. R. Kumar, “On the Design of Security-Guaranteeing Dynamic Watermarks.” IEEE Control Systems Letters, April 2019.
- Lu Zhang, Bin Wang, Dongqi Wu, Le Xie, P. R. Kumar and Weiping Shi, “Fast Electromagnetic Transient Simulation Based on Hierarchical Low-Rank Approximation.” pp. 1-5, Proceedings of 2019 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference N.A. (ISGT N.A.). Washington, DC, February 17-20, 2019.
- Xi Liu, Ping-Chun Hsieh, Anirban Bhattacharya and P. R. Kumar, “Bandit Learning Through Biased Maximum Likelihood Estimation.” Submitted to 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019). Dec 8-14th, 2019, Vancouver, Canada. Submitted May 23, 2019.
- Wenqing Li, Tong Huang, Nikolaos Freris, P. R. Kumar and Le Xie, “Data-driven Localization of Forced Oscillations in Power Systems.” Submitted to 2019 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, Asia, 21-24 May 2019 in Chengdu, China. Submitted January 26, 2019.
- Bharadwaj Satchidanandan, Venkata Siva Santosh Ganji and P. R. Kumar, “Iris: A Directional MAC Protocol With Applications to Millimeter-Wave Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks.” pp. 291-297, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS 2019), Bengaluru, India, January 7-11, 2019.
- Ke Ma and P. R. Kumar, “The Strategic LQG System: A Dynamic Stochastic VCG Framework for Optimal Coordination.” Proceedings of 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 5777-5782, December 17-19, 2018, Miami, Florida. (Invited Paper).
- Bharadwaj Satchidanandan and P. R. Kumar, “On the Operational Signicance of the Securable Subspace for Partially Observed Linear Stochastic Systems.” Proceedings of 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 2068-2073, December 17-19, 2018, Miami, Florida. (Invited Paper).
- Joseph Sangil Kwon, Bharadwaj Satchidanandan, Woo Hyun Ko, Jaewon Kim, Abhinav Narasingam, and P. R. Kumar, “Securing Process Control Systems Using Dynamic Watermarking.” Proceesings of 2018 AIChE Annual Meeting (Computing and Systems Technology Division), October 28 – November 2, 2018, Pittsburgh.
- Xi Liu, Ping-Chun Hsieh and P. R. Kumar, “Safe Intersection Management for Mixed Transportation Systems with Human-Driven and Autonomous Vehicles.” Proceedings of the 56th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, pp. 834-841, October 2-5, 2018, Allerton Retreat Center, Monticello, IL.
- Simon Yau, Ping-Chun Hsieh, Rajarshi Bhattacharyya, Kartic Bhargav K R, Srinivas Shakkottai, I-Hong Hou and P. R. Kumar, “PULS: Processor-supported Ultra-low Latency Scheduling.” pp. 1-10, Nineteenth International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2018), Los Angeles, CA, June 26-29, 2018. [Acceptance rate 16.85 % ]. [Finalist for Best Paper Award].
- Ashif Sikandar Iquebal, Zimo Wang, Woo Hyun Ko, Zhijiang Wang, P. R. Kumar, Arun Srinivasa, and Satish T. S. Bukkapatnam, “Towards Realizing Cybermanufacturing Kiosks: Quality Assurance Challenges and Opportunities.” Proceedings of 46th SME North American Manufacturing Research Conference, NAMRC 46, vol. 26, pp. 1296-1306, College Station, Texas, June 18-22, 2018. Published in Procedia Manufacturing, ISSN: 2351-9789.
- Tong Huang, Nikolaos Freris, P. R. Kumar and Le Xie, “Localization of Forced Oscillations in the Power Grid Under Resonance Conditions.” pp. 1-5, Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS). Princeton, March 21-23, 2018.
- Arun Padakandla, P. R. Kumar and Wojciech Szpankowski, “Preserving Privacy and Fidelity via Ehrhart Theory.” pp. 696-700, 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). Vail, Colorado, June 17-22, 2018.
- Lu Zhang, Meng Wu, P. R. Kumar, Le Xie, Weiping Shi, “VLSI Architecture for Exciter, Governor and Stabilizer in Fast Power System EMT Simulation,” pp. 1-6, Proceedings of the 2018 Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC 2018), Feb 8-9, 2018, College Station, TX. 242.
- Bharadwaj Satchidanandan, Simon Yau, P. R. Kumar, Ahsan Aziz, Amal Ekbal, and Nikhil Kundargi, “TrackMAC: An IEEE 802.11ad-Compatible Beam Tracking-Based MAC Protocol for 5G Millimeter Wave Local Area Networks.” pp. 175-182, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS 2018), January 3-7, 2018, Bengaluru, India.
- Mohammadhussein Raeisakhaei, Suman Chakravorty and P. R. Kumar, “A Near-Optimal Decoupling Principle for Nonlinear Stochastic Systems Arising in Robotic Path Planning and Control.” pp. 1-6, Proceedings of 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 12-15, 2017, Melbourne, Australia. (Invited Paper).
- Mohammadhussein Raeisakhaei, Suman Chakravorty and P. R. Kumar, “On the Use of the Observability Gramian for Partially Observed Robotic Path Planning Problems.” pp. 1523-1528, Proceedings of 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 12-15, 2017, Melbourne, Australia.
- Woo Hyun Ko, Arun Srinivasa and P. R. Kumar, “A Multi-Component Automated Laser-Origami System for Cyber-Manufacturing.” pp. 1-10, 4th International Conference on Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing (ICMMM 2017), IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng., Atlanta, GA, October 25-27, 2017. Woo Hyun Ko et al 2017 IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng. 272 012013
- Rahul Singh and P. R. Kumar, “Optimal decentralized scheduling of multi-hop wireless networks with end-to-end deadline constraints.” To be presented at 55th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, October 3-6, 2017, Monticello, Illinois. Invited paper.
- Bharadwaj Satchidanandan and P. R. Kumar, “The Securable Subspace of a Linear Stochastic System with Malicious Sensors and Actuators.” Proceedings of the 55th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, October 3-6, 2017, Monticello, Illinois.
- Hung-Ming Chou, Le Xie, Prasad Enjeti, and P. R. Kumar, “Power Electronics Intelligence at the Network Edge (PINE).” Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE 2017), pp. 5214-5221, October 1-5, 2017, Cincinnati, USA.
- V. Seshadri Sravan Kumar, Le Xie and P. R. Kumar, “An Analytical Approach for Loss Minimization and Voltage Prole Improvement in Distribution Systems with Renewable Energy Sources.” 10th Bulk Power Systems Dynamics and Control Symposium -IREP 2017, August 27-September, 2017. Espinho, Portugal.
- Abhishek Halder, Xinbo Geng, P. R. Kumar, and Le Xie, “Architecture and Algorithms for Privacy Preserving Thermal Inertial Load Management by A Load Serving Entity.” Proceedings of 2017 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, July 16-20, 2017, Chicago.
- Mohammadhussein Raeisakhaei, Suman Chakravorty and P. R. Kumar, “Near-Optimal Belief Space Planning via T-LQG.” pp. 1-3, Proceedings of Workshop on POMDPs in Robotics in Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS-2017), July 12-16, 2017, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Ping-Chun Hsieh, Xi Liu, Jian Jiao, I-Hong Hou, Yunlong Zhang, and P. R. Kumar, “Throughput Optimal Scheduling for Multi-Hop Networked Transportation Systems With Switch-Over Delay.” pp. 1-10, Proceedings of The 16th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, ACM MobiHoc 2017, July 10-14, 2017 Chennai, India. [Acceptance rate 17%]. [Best paper Award].
- Mohammadhussein Raeisakhaei, Suman Chakravorty and P. R. Kumar, “T-LQG: Closed-Loop Belief Space Planning via Trajectory-Optimized LQG” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2017), pp. 649 – 656, May 29-June 3, 2017, Singapore.
- Mohammadhussein Raeisakhaei, Suman Chakravorty and P. R. Kumar, “MT-LQG: Multi-Agent Planning in Belief Space via Trajectory-Optimized LQG.” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2017), pp. 5583-5590, May 29-June 3, 2017, Singapore.
- Woo Hyun Ko and P. R. Kumar, “Outlier Rejection for Networked Control Systems based on Middleware.” 14th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2017), Las Vegas, pp. 305-312, January 8-11, 2017.
- Bharadwaj Satchidanandan and P. R. Kumar, “On Minimal Tests of Sensor Veracity for Dynamic Watermarking-Based Defense of Cyber-Physical Systems.” Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS 2017), pp. 23-30, January 4-8, 2017, Bengaluru, India. [Best paper Award].
- Bharadwaj Satchidanandan and P. R. Kumar, “Secure Control of Networked Cyber-Physical Systems.” Proceedings of 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 283-289, December 12-14, 2016, Las Vegas. (Invited Paper).
- Yang Chen, Harish Chintakunta, Le Xie, Yuliy Baryshnikov and P. R. Kumar, “Persistent-Homologybased Detection of Power System Low-frequency Oscillations using PMUs.” Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Symposium on Signal and Information Processing for Smart Grid Infrastructures (GlobalSIP), pp. 796-800, December 7-9, 2016, Greater Washington, D.C., USA.
- Woo Hyun Ko, Bharadwaj Satchidanandan and P. R. Kumar, “Theory and Implementation of Dynamic Watermarking for Cybersecurity of Advanced Transportation Systems.” International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec), pp. 235-239, Philadelphia, October 17-19, 2016.
- Woo Hyun Ko and P. R. Kumar, “Cross-layer Design for Cyber-Physical Systems of Coordinated Networked Vehicles over Bi-Directional Middleware.” Proceedings of the 2016 American Control Conference, pp. 6459-6454, July 6-8, 2016, Boston.
- Mohammadhussein Raeisakhaei, Amir Hossein Tamjidi, Suman Chakravorty and P. R. Kumar, “Feedback Motion Planning Under Non-Gaussian Uncertainty and Non-Convex State Constraints.” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2016), pp. 4238-4244, May 16-21, 2016, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Benjamin P. Wiseman, Yang Chen, Le Xie and P. R. Kumar, “PMU-based Reduced-order Modeling of Power System Dynamics via Selective Modal Analysis.” Proceedings of the IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition (T&D) 2016, pp. 1-5, May 3, 2016, Dallas.
- Xi Liu and P. R. Kumar, “Towards Safety of Transportation Systems with a Mixture of Automated and Human-Driven Vehicles.” Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), 8th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS 2016), pp. 1-3, January 5-9, 2016. (Invited Paper)
- Rahul Singh and P. R. Kumar, “Optimizing Quality of Experience of Dynamic Video Streaming Over Fading Wireless Networks.” Proceedings of 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 7195-7200, December 15-18, 2015, Osaka, Japan.
- Xi Liu, Ke Ma and P. R. Kumar, “Towards Provably Safe Mixed Transportation Systems with Humandriven and Automated Vehicles.” Proceedings of 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 4688-4694, December 15-18, 2015, Osaka, Japan.
- Rahul Singh, Ke Ma, Anupam A. Thatte, P. R. Kumar and Le Xie, “A Theory for the Economic Operation of a Smart Grid with Stochastic Renewables, Demand Response and Storage.” Proceedings of 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 3778-3785, December 15-18, 2015, Osaka, Japan. (Invited Paper).
- Rahul Singh and P. R. Kumar, “Decentralized Throughput Maximizing Policies for Deadline-Constrained Wireless Networks.” Proceedings of 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 3759-3766, December 15-18, 2015, Osaka, Japan. (Invited Paper).
- Abhishek Halder, Xinbo Geng, Gaurav Sharma, Le Xie and P. R. Kumar, “A Control System Framework for Privacy Preserving Demand Response of Thermal Inertial Loads.” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (IEEE SmartGridComm), pp. 181-186, Miami, November 2-5, 2015.
- Rahul Singh, P. R. Kumar and Le Xie, “The ISO Problem: Decentralized Stochastic Control Via Bidding Schemes.” Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, pp. 552-559, University of Illinois, September 30-October 2, 2015.
- Simon Yau, Liang Ge, Ping-Chun Hsieh, I-Hong Hou, Shuguang Cui, P. R. Kumar, Amal Ekbal, Nikhil Kundargi, “WiMAC: Rapid Implementation Platform for User Definable MAC Protocols Through Separation.” Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM ’15), Video, pages 109-110, August 17-21, 2015, London, United Kingdom.
- Jaeyong An, P. R. Kumar and Le Xie, “On Transfer Function Modeling of Price Responsive Demand: An Empirical Study.” Proceedings of 2015 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, pp. 1-5, Denver, July 26-30, 2015.
- Rahul Singh, Le Xie and P. R. Kumar, “On Storage and Renewables: A Theory of Sizing and Uncertainty.” 2015 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, Denver, July 26-30, 2015.
- Xueying Guo, Rahul Singh, P. R. Kumar and Zhisheng Niu, “A High Reliability Asymptotic Approach for Packet Inter-Delivery Time Optimization in Cyber-Physical Systems.” Proceedings of The 16th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, ACM MobiHoc 2015, pp. 197-206, June 22-25, 2015, Hangzhou, China. [Acceptance rate 14.8%]
- Xueying Guo, Rahul Singh, P. R. Kumar and Zhisheng Niu, “Optimal Energy-Efficient Regular Delivery of Packets in Cyber-physical Systems.” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 3186-3191, London, UK, June 8-12, 2015.
- Jonathan Ponniah, Yih-Chun Hu and P. R. Kumar, “A Clean Slate Design for Secure Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks – Part 2: Closed Synchronized Networks.” pp. 175-182, Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2015, May 25-29, 2015, Mumbai, India.
- Jonathan Ponniah, Yih-Chun Hu and P. R. Kumar, “A Clean Slate Design for Secure Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks – Part 1: Closed Synchronized Networks.” pp. 175-182, Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2015, May 25-29, 2015, Mumbai, India.
- Rahul Singh, Xueying Guo and P. R. Kumar, “Index Policies for Optimal Mean-Variance Trade-Off of Inter-delivery Times in Real-Time Sensor Networks.” Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2015: The Conference on Computer Communications, pp. 505-512, Hong Kong, April 26-May 1, 2015. [Acceptance rate 19%].
- Jonathan Ponniah, Liang-Liang Xie, P. R. Kumar. “The two-way multi-relay channel,” Proceedings of 2015 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2015), pp. 1-5, April 26-May 1, 2015, Jerusalem, Israel.
- Gaurav Sharma, Le Xie and P. R. Kumar, “Optimal demand response for thermal inertial loads employing stochastic renewables: A privacy respecting architecture and its continuum scaling limit.” pp. 358-363, Proceedings of 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 15-17, 2014, Los Angeles. (Invited Paper).
- Ke Ma, Le Xie and P. R. Kumar, “A Layered Architecture for EV Charging Stations Based on Time Scale Decomposition.” Proceedings of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (IEEE SmartGridComm), pp. 680-685, November 3-6, 2014, Venice, Italy.
- Yang Chen, Le Xie and P. R. Kumar, “Integrating PMU-data-driven and Physics-based Analytics for Power Systems Operations” Proceedings of the 48th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, pp. 1127 – 1132. Pacific Grove, California, November 2{5, 2014.
- Luoyi Fu, Xinbing Wang and P. R. Kumar, “Optimal determination of source-destination connectivity in random graphs.” Proceedings of The 15th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, ACM MobiHoc 2014, Philadelphia, August 11-14, 2014. [Acceptance Rate 18.9%]
- Yang Chen, Le Xie and P. R. Kumar, “Power System Event Classification via Dimensionality Reduction of Synchrophasor Data” The Eighth IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM) 2014), pp. 57-60, A Coruna, Spain, June 22-25, 2014.
- Rahul Singh, I-Hong Hou and P. R. Kumar, “Fluctuation Analysis of Debt Based Policies for Wireless Networks with Hard Delay Constraints.” Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2014: The Conference on Computer Communications, pp. 2400-2408, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 27-May 2, 2014. [Acceptance Rate 19.4%]
- Rahul Singh, I-Hong Hou and P. R. Kumar, “Pathwise Performance of Debt Based Policies for Wireless Networks with Hard Delay Constraints.” Proceedings of 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 7838-7843, December 10-13, 2013, Florence, Italy. (Invited Paper).
- Gaurav Sharma, Le Xie and P. R. Kumar, “On the optimality of de-synchronized demand response with stochastic renewables and inertial thermal loads.” Proceedings of 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 6292-6297, December 10-13, 2013, Florence, Italy. (Invited Paper).
- Gaurav Sharma, Le Xie and P. R. Kumar, “Large population optimal demand response for thermostatically controlled inertial loads.” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (IEEE SmartGridComm), pages 259-264, October 21-24, 2013, Vancouver.
- Xueying Guo, Sheng Zhou, Zhisheng Niu and P. R. Kumar, “Optimal Wake-up Mechanism for Single Base Station with Sleep Mode,” pp. 1-8, Proceedings of the 25th International Teletrac Congress (ITC 25), Shanghai, September 10-12, 2013.
- Yang Chen, Le Xie and P. R. Kumar, “Dimensionality Reduction and Event Early Detection Using Online Synchrophasor Data.” IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PES), pp 1-5,Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 21-25, 2013.
- Yan Gao, Zheng Zeng, Xue Liu and P. R. Kumar, “The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind: Analysis of Powering Internet Data Centers with Wind Energy.” Proceedings of the Infocom MiniConference, pp. 520-524, April 14-19, 2013, Turin, Italy.
Students and Post-Docs
Current Members
Post-Doctoral Fellows
PhD Students
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Santosh Ganji
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Akshay Mete
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Min Cheng
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Romil Sonigra
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Tzu Hsiang Lin
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Aamir Shahid
Past Members
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Tao Liu , PhD (2024), Research Scientist, Meta
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Akshay Sarvesh, Ph.D (2023), Research Scientist, Meta
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Jaewon Kim, Ph.D. (2023), MIT Post-doctoral Fellow
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Enoch Hyunwook Kang, Ph.D (2023), Researcher UW
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Xi Liu, Ph.D. (2020), Research Scientist, Meta
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Jaeyong An, Ph.D. (2019)
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Bharadwaj Satchidanandan, Ph.D. (2019), Faculty IITM
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Woo Hyun Ko, Ph.D. (2017), Researcher TAMU
Table Tennis
TAMU Table Tennis Club meets in the Rec Center.
Facilities are excellent!
Times vary each semester, but in the past it has generally been on weekends and Fridays.
Rec Center Information: https://recsports.tamu.edu/facilities/