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188 papers, 34 sponsored projects, 6 doctoral students, and 15 alumni, read together. Every figure on this page is computed from the center's own records and Crossref; nothing is generated when the page loads.

188papers since 2019

2,696citations on Crossref

3,563outside works the papers cite

13research clusters

The map

Each point is a paper; size follows citations. Papers sit together when they cite the same literature, share authors, or use the same language. Faint lines are those ties; the darker lines are one center paper citing another. Tap a cluster to focus it.

145 citations run between the center's own papers. 175 of 188 papers have open reference lists on Crossref, 4,484 references with DOIs between them.

Clusters

Found by community detection over the ties above, then named by hand from what the papers actually study. 13 of 13 clusters carry a written summary; the rest are labelled from their own terms until they settle.

Traffic flow, work zones, and crash modeling

31 papers, 25 in journals, 2020 to 2026. 1,281 citations on Crossref. Nearest: Surrogate safety and connected vehicle analytics, Trust between people and robots.

Yuanchang Xie (30), Yan Luo (1)

Yuanchang Xie's transportation group: cooperative and connected automated vehicle control for merging and stop-and-go traffic, work zone safety read from drone and thermal video, car-following behavior models, and machine learning for crash frequency and severity. The 2026 papers turn vision-language and large language models on crash reports and travel-time prediction.

Most cited

Quantifying and comparing the effects of key risk factors on various types of roadway segment crashes with LightGBM and SHAPAccident Analysis & Prevention, 2021, cited by 304 IF 5.7 (2023)
DMA-Net: DeepLab With Multi-Scale Attention for Pavement Crack SegmentationIEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2022, cited by 259 IF 7.9 (2023)
Applications of machine learning methods in traffic crash severity modelling: current status and future directionsTransport Reviews, 2021, cited by 140 IF 9.5 (2023)

Builds on

The Impact of Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control on Traffic-Flow Characteristics van Arem et al., 2006; cited by 5 of these papers
Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control: A Reinforcement Learning Approach Desjardins et al., 2011; cited by 4 of these papers
String-Stable CACC Design and Experimental Validation: A Frequency-Domain Approach Naus et al., 2010; cited by 4 of these papers

Awards behind this work

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Impacts of Automated Vehicles on Traffic Flow Using Empirical Data National Science Foundation, Completed
Smart Work Zone Control and Performance Evaluation Based on Trajectory Data Massachusetts Department of Transportation, Completed
Ethical Algorithms in Autonomous Vehicles National Science Foundation, Completed

Multi-band and space-division optical networks

21 papers, 6 in journals, 2020 to 2026. 58 citations on Crossref. Nearest: Resilient power grid observability and restoration, Traffic flow, work zones, and crash modeling.

Vinod M. Vokkarane (21), Orlando Arias (1)

The director's optical networking line: quality-of-transmission-aware routing, spectrum, and grooming in elastic and multi-band over space-division multiplexed networks, physical-layer models for nonlinear noise and crosstalk, reinforcement learning for routing, and FUSION, the group's open benchmarking framework. Most recent papers are by doctoral students Arash Rezaee and Ryan McCann with collaborators at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the University of Virginia.

Most cited

Dynamic Crosstalk-Aware Routing, Modulation, Core, and Spectrum Allocation for Sliceable Demands in SDM-EONsIEEE 30th International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN), 2024, cited by 13
FUSION: A Flexible Unified Simulator for Intelligent Optical NetworkingIEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), 2024, cited by 8
Delayed spectrum allocation in elastic optical networks with anycast trafficOSA Continuum, 2021, cited by 7

Builds on

Space-division multiplexing in optical fibres Richardson et al., 2013; cited by 5 of these papers
Elastic optical networking: a new dawn for the optical layer? Gerstel et al., 2012; cited by 5 of these papers
Provisioning in Multi-Band Optical Networks Sambo et al., 2020; cited by 5 of these papers

Awards behind this work

Flexible Spectrum Allocation in Next-Generation Optical Networks National Science Foundation, 2020 to 2024
SOON: Service-Oriented Optical Networks NSF NeTS Small, 2006 to 2011
COMMON: Coordinated Multi-Layer Multi-Domain Optical Network U.S. Department of Energy, 2010 to 2013

Consensus, replication, and blockchain systems

20 papers, 2 in journals, 2024 to 2026. 11 citations on Crossref. Nearest: Resilient power grid observability and restoration, Lossy compression and anomaly detection for scientific data.

Lewis Tseng

Lewis Tseng's distributed systems work since he joined in 2024: state machine replication and leaderless consensus (Racos, Pineapple, Paxos against Raft), Byzantine consensus in dynamic and anonymous networks, DHTs for blockchain, and applications from satellite-edge drone search to digital twins as a service and control of a quantum cloud. Nearly all of it is from 2024 onward, so citations are still arriving.

Most cited

ALock: Asymmetric Lock Primitive for RDMA SystemsProceedings of the 36th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, 2024, cited by 7
Iterative approximate Byzantine consensus in arbitrary directed graphsDistributed Computing, 2024, cited by 2 IF 1.3 (2023)
Deploying Digital Twins as a Service in Hybrid CloudsIEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS), 2025, cited by 1

Builds on

Time is not a healer Santoro et al., 1989; cited by 3 of these papers

Awards behind this work

Towards Fault-tolerant Edge Computing for Cyber-Physical Systems: Distributed Primitives for Coordination under Cyber Attacks National Science Foundation, Sept 2024 onward

Lossy compression and anomaly detection for scientific data

19 papers, 2 in journals, 2019 to 2025. 54 citations on Crossref. Nearest: Resilient power grid observability and restoration, Multi-band and space-division optical networks.

Seung Woo Son (19), Orlando Arias (1)

Seung Woo Son's data integrity line: error-bounded DCT-based lossy compression for HPC datasets, sparse-representation anomaly detection from IoT data to edge nodes, silent data corruption detection from hardware counters, and on-device stream analytics, most recently for earthquake detection and false-alarm suppression.

Most cited

Effective Posture Classification Using Statistically Significant Data From Flexible Pressure SensorsIEEE Journal on Flexible Electronics, 2024, cited by 9
Anomaly Detection in Edge Nodes using Sparsity ProfileIEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2020, cited by 9
AD2: Improving Quality of IoT Data through Compressive Anomaly DetectionIEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2019, cited by 5

Builds on

Efficient Encoding and Reconstruction of HPC Datasets for Checkpoint/Restart Zhang et al., 2019; cited by 7 of these papers
Towards Improving Rate-Distortion Performance of Transform-Based Lossy Compression for HPC Datasets Zhang et al., 2019; cited by 7 of these papers
Lossy compression on IoT big data by exploiting spatiotemporal correlation Moon et al., 2017; cited by 6 of these papers

Awards behind this work

Improving Data Integrity for HPC Datasets using Sparsity Profile National Science Foundation, June 2023 onward

Resilient power grid observability and restoration

18 papers, 9 in journals, 2020 to 2026. 158 citations on Crossref. Nearest: Multi-band and space-division optical networks, Traffic flow, work zones, and crash modeling.

Vinod M. Vokkarane (17), Yuzhang Lin (17), Orlando Arias (1), Yan Luo (1)

The smart grid thread the director shares with Yuzhang Lin: PMU and communication placement for resilient observability, cyber restoration of power systems after attacks and disasters, cyber-physical reconfiguration and networked microgrids, false-data-injection detection in smart meters, and security-constrained dispatch. The ONR restoration project and the SUMMIT testbed are aimed here.

Most cited

Cyber-physical cascading failure and resilience of power grid: A comprehensive reviewFrontiers in Energy Research, 2023, cited by 50 IF 2.6 (2023)
Optimal PMU Restoration for Power System Observability Recovery After Massive AttacksIEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2021, cited by 35 IF 8.6 (2023)
Cyber Restoration of Power Systems: Concept and Methodology for Resilient ObservabilityIEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2023, cited by 13 IF 8.6 (2023)

Builds on

Taxonomy of PMU Placement Methodologies Manousakis et al., 2012; cited by 5 of these papers
Optimal PMU-Communication Link Placement for Smart Grid Wide-Area Measurement Systems Zhu et al., 2019; cited by 5 of these papers
Power System State Estimation Abur et al., 2004; cited by 5 of these papers

Awards behind this work

Resilient Smart Grids Navia Energy Inc., 2024 to 2026
Unified Post-Disaster Restoration Planning for Cyber-Physical Power Distribution Systems Office of Naval Research, Jan 2024 to Oct 2025
Resilient Sensing and Communication Architecture for Naval Energy Infrastructure Monitoring Office of Naval Research, 2020 to 2023

Trust between people and robots

18 papers, 6 in journals, 2021 to 2026. 102 citations on Crossref. Nearest: Marine autonomy and infrared perception, Multi-agent learning with relational networks.

Paul Robinette (17), Yuanchang Xie (1)

Paul Robinette's human-robot interaction studies: how trust forms, breaks, and is repaired after a robot's mistakes, what apologies and explanations do, moral expectations of robots against people, and drone failures in simulation against reality, with a line of ethics papers on socially supportive assistants and autonomous cars.

Most cited

Do Humans Trust Robots that Violate Moral Trust?ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024, cited by 27
An explanation is not an excuse: Trust calibration in an age of transparent robotsTrust in Human-Robot Interaction, 2021, cited by 17
Ethical Issues in Near-Future Socially Supportive Smart Assistants for Older AdultsIEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, 2023, cited by 16

Builds on

Modeling Trust in Human-Robot Interaction: A Survey Khavas et al., 2020; cited by 6 of these papers
Effect of Robot Performance on Human–Robot Trust in Time-Critical Situations Robinette et al., 2017; cited by 5 of these papers; earlier work by a center member
Trust in Automation: Designing for Appropriate Reliance Lee et al., 2004; cited by 5 of these papers

Surrogate safety and connected vehicle analytics

15 papers, 11 in journals, 2021 to 2026. 597 citations on Crossref. Nearest: Traffic flow, work zones, and crash modeling, Trust between people and robots.

Yuanchang Xie

Yuanchang Xie's safety line: surrogate safety measures for connected and automated vehicles, run-off-road and curve speeding risk from connected vehicle data, forward collision warning effectiveness, and causal estimates of what signal control choices do to safety.

Most cited

A review of surrogate safety measures and their applications in connected and automated vehicles safety modelingAccident Analysis & Prevention, 2021, cited by 461 IF 5.7 (2023)
Explicitly incorporating surrogate safety measures into connected and automated vehicle longitudinal control objectives for enhancing platoon safetyAccident Analysis & Prevention, 2023, cited by 35 IF 5.7 (2023)
Modeling the risk of single-vehicle run-off-road crashes on horizontal curves using connected vehicle dataAnalytic Methods in Accident Research, 2024, cited by 27 IF 12.5 (2023)

Builds on

Assessment of Drivers’ Comprehensive Driving Capability Under Man-Computer Cooperative Driving Conditions Wang et al., 2020; cited by 4 of these papers
A crash prediction method based on bivariate extreme value theory and video-based vehicle trajectory data Wang et al., 2019; cited by 4 of these papers
Effect of daily car-following behaviors on urban roadway rear-end crashes and near-crashes: A naturalistic driving study Wang et al., 2022; cited by 3 of these papers

Awards behind this work

Maine Advanced Signal Control and Connected Vehicle System for Safe, Efficient and Equitable Rural Transportation (MAST) U.S. Department of Transportation, Ongoing
Railroad Grade Crossing Profile Data Collection and Modeling Massachusetts Department of Transportation, Ongoing
Collaborative Research: Understanding the Impacts of Automated Vehicles on Traffic Flow Using Empirical Data National Science Foundation, Completed

Nuclear security, safeguards, and clean heat

11 papers, 4 in journals, 2021 to 2026. 10 citations on Crossref. Nearest: Traffic flow, work zones, and crash modeling, Resilient power grid observability and restoration.

Sukesh Aghara

Sukesh Aghara's nuclear line: safeguards measurement and detector modeling, nuclear security for next-generation reactors and facilities, cyber security for nuclear facilities, reactor kinetics, thermal energy storage on decommissioned sites, and clean heating for the campus.

Most cited

Reviewing thermal conductivity aspects of solar salt energy storageEnergy Advances, 2023, cited by 6
Creation of a Condenser Testbed for Hardware in the Loop Testing Using the Asherah Simulator12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021), 2021, cited by 2
Nuclear Material Accounting and ControlThe Oxford Handbook of Nuclear Security, 2023, cited by 1

Awards behind this work

Intercontinental Nuclear Institute (INI) International Atomic Energy Agency, Ongoing
Massachusetts Advanced Nuclear and Fusion Energy Roadmaps Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Oct 2025 to 2026

Hardware trojans and information flow tracking

11 papers, 2 in journals, 2021 to 2025. 32 citations on Crossref. Nearest: Lossy compression and anomaly detection for scientific data, Trust between people and robots.

Orlando Arias

Orlando Arias's hardware security work: trojan insertion and detection at RTL and in SoC platforms, fine-grained dynamic information flow tracking, memory-mapping attacks on Cortex-M debug units, and hardware fuzzing.

Most cited

FineDIFT: Fine-Grained Dynamic Information Flow Tracking for Data-Flow Integrity Using CoprocessorIEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2022, cited by 7 IF 6.3 (2023)
IP-Tag: Tag-Based Runtime 3PIP Hardware Trojan Detection in SoC PlatformsIEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2023, cited by 6 IF 2.7 (2023)
DTjRTL: A Configurable Framework for Automated Hardware Trojan Insertion at RTLProceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2024, 2024, cited by 5

Builds on

SoC interconnection protection through formal verification He et al., 2019; cited by 4 of these papers

Malware and traffic classification with transformers

9 papers, 2 in journals, 2021 to 2026. 268 citations on Crossref. Nearest: Traffic flow, work zones, and crash modeling, Sensor networks for structural monitoring.

Yan Luo

Yan Luo's machine learning line: malware detection for Windows executables with transformers and, in 2026, large language models, encrypted traffic classification with graph and attention networks, and earlier vision work on pose estimation, skin lesion diagnosis, and rehabilitation data.

Most cited

Flow-Based Encrypted Network Traffic Classification With Graph Neural NetworksIEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2023, cited by 126 IF 4.7 (2023)
R1DIT: Privacy-Preserving Malware Traffic Classification With Attention-Based Neural NetworksIEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2023, cited by 53 IF 4.7 (2023)
Swin-Pose: Swin Transformer Based Human Pose EstimationIEEE 5th International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR), 2022, cited by 34

Marine autonomy and infrared perception

6 papers, 2 in journals, 2021 to 2025. 94 citations on Crossref. Nearest: Trust between people and robots, Traffic flow, work zones, and crash modeling.

Paul Robinette (5), Yuanchang Xie (1)

Robinette's field robotics: the RoboWhaler autonomous surface vessel, the MassMIND maritime infrared dataset, long-wave and short-wave infrared detection, and sim-to-real sonar tracking.

Most cited

Development of a Perception System for an Autonomous Surface Vehicle using Monocular Camera, LIDAR, and Marine RADARIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021, cited by 40
MassMIND: Massachusetts Maritime INfrared DatasetThe International Journal of Robotics Research, 2023, cited by 29
Beyond Visible Light: Usage of Long Wave Infrared for Object Detection in Maritime Environment20th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 2021, cited by 11

Builds on

DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs Chen et al., 2018; cited by 2 of these papers

Sensor networks for structural monitoring

5 papers, 5 in journals, 2023 to 2026. 22 citations on Crossref. Nearest: Malware and traffic classification with transformers, Hardware trojans and information flow tracking.

Yan Luo (4), Orlando Arias (1)

Distributed acoustic sensor networks for wind turbine blades, camera calibration for large-scale structural monitoring, and a systematization of attacks and defenses on acoustic sensors.

Most cited

Sensor-Based Calibration of Camera’s Extrinsic Parameters for StereophotogrammetryIEEE Sensors Journal, 2023, cited by 18 IF 4.3 (2023)
Rapid 3D Camera Calibration for Large-Scale Structural MonitoringRemote Sensing, 2025, cited by 4 IF 4.2 (2023)
A Novel Distributed Sensor Network to Assess Wind Turbine Blade Acoustics for Structural Health MonitoringWind Energy, 2026, cited by 0 IF 4.1 (2023)

Multi-agent learning with relational networks

4 papers, 1 in journals, 2023 to 2024. 9 citations on Crossref. Nearest: Trust between people and robots, Marine autonomy and infrared perception.

Paul Robinette

Relational network structure in multi-agent reinforcement learning: team performance in multi-armed bandits, recovery from robot malfunctions, and value factorization.

Most cited

Impact of Relational Networks in Multi-Agent Learning: A Value-Based Factorization View62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2023, cited by 5
Influence of Team Interactions on Multi-Robot Cooperation: A Relational Network PerspectiveInternational Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS), 2023, cited by 3
Relational Q-Functionals: Multi-Agent Learning to Recover from Unforeseen Robot Malfunctions in Continuous Action Domains21st International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), 2024, cited by 1

Builds on

Q-learning Watkins et al., 1992; cited by 3 of these papers
Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning Mnih et al., 2015; cited by 3 of these papers

Who works with whom

Co-authorship among the director and center faculty in the publication record, the people whose work spans more than one cluster, and the co-authors outside the site's roster who appear most often.

Joint papers between the director and center faculty, 2019 to 2026
	Vokkarane	Aghara	Arias	Lin	Luo	Robinette	Son	Tseng	Xie
Vokkarane	38		2	17
Aghara		11
Arias	2		15	1			1
Lin	17		1	17
Luo					15
Robinette						26
Son			1				19
Tseng								20
Xie									47

4 of the 36 possible pairs have a joint paper in the record: Vokkarane and Lin, 17; Vokkarane and Arias, 2; Arias and Son, 1; Arias and Lin, 1.

Bridges between clusters

Orlando Arias faculty; 15 papers across 5 clusters: Hardware trojans and information flow tracking, Lossy compression and anomaly detection for scientific data, Resilient power grid observability and restoration, Multi-band and space-division optical networks, Sensor networks for structural monitoring
Yuanchang Xie faculty; 47 papers across 4 clusters: Traffic flow, work zones, and crash modeling, Surrogate safety and connected vehicle analytics, Trust between people and robots, Marine autonomy and infrared perception
Yan Luo faculty; 15 papers across 4 clusters: Malware and traffic classification with transformers, Sensor networks for structural monitoring, Resilient power grid observability and restoration, Traffic flow, work zones, and crash modeling
Paul Robinette faculty; 26 papers across 3 clusters: Trust between people and robots, Marine autonomy and infrared perception, Multi-agent learning with relational networks
Vinod M. Vokkarane faculty; 38 papers across 2 clusters: Multi-band and space-division optical networks, Resilient power grid observability and restoration

Most frequent co-authors outside the roster

A. Moon 14 papers
C. Wang 13 papers
L. Jiang 11 papers
Y. Chen 10 papers
Y. Zou 10 papers
X. Guo 10 papers
Z. Rezaei Khavas 9 papers
T. Zhang 7 papers
Y. Zhang 7 papers
Y. Jin 7 papers
X. Zhuo 7 papers
Z. Bhuyan 6 papers

What the work builds on

The outside papers cited by the most center papers. 153 works are cited by three or more; these are the ones cited most. A center member's own earlier work is marked.

Efficient Encoding and Reconstruction of HPC Datasets for Checkpoint/Restart Zhang et al., 2019, 2019 35th Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST). Cited by 7 of the center's papers
Towards Improving Rate-Distortion Performance of Transform-Based Lossy Compression for HPC Datasets Zhang et al., 2019, 2019 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC). Cited by 7 of the center's papers
Modeling Trust in Human-Robot Interaction: A Survey Khavas et al., 2020, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cited by 6 of the center's papers
Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning Mnih et al., 2015, Nature. Cited by 6 of the center's papers
Lossy compression on IoT big data by exploiting spatiotemporal correlation Moon et al., 2017, 2017 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC). Cited by 6 of the center's papers
Space-division multiplexing in optical fibres Richardson et al., 2013, Nature Photonics. Cited by 5 of the center's papers
Elastic optical networking: a new dawn for the optical layer? Gerstel et al., 2012, IEEE Communications Magazine. Cited by 5 of the center's papers
Provisioning in Multi-Band Optical Networks Sambo et al., 2020, Journal of Lightwave Technology. Cited by 5 of the center's papers
Ultra-high-capacity band and space division multiplexing backbone EONs: multi-core versus multi-fiber Arpanaei et al., 2024, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking. Cited by 5 of the center's papers
Effect of Robot Performance on Human–Robot Trust in Time-Critical Situations Robinette et al., 2017, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. Cited by 5 of the center's papers; earlier work by a center member
Trust in Automation: Designing for Appropriate Reliance Lee et al., 2004, Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Cited by 5 of the center's papers
Foundations for an Empirically Determined Scale of Trust in Automated Systems Jian et al., 2000, International Journal of Cognitive Ergonomics. Cited by 5 of the center's papers
Effects of changing reliability on trust of robot systems Desai et al., 2012, Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Cited by 5 of the center's papers
Taxonomy of PMU Placement Methodologies Manousakis et al., 2012, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Cited by 5 of the center's papers
Optimal PMU-Communication Link Placement for Smart Grid Wide-Area Measurement Systems Zhu et al., 2019, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. Cited by 5 of the center's papers

Reach

Citation counts are Crossref's, which only see citations publishers deposit, so they run below Google Scholar. They are comparable across the center's papers because every paper is counted the same way.

Most cited papers

A review of surrogate safety measures and their applications in connected and automated vehicles safety modelingAccident Analysis & Prevention, 2021, 461 citations IF 5.7 (2023)
Quantifying and comparing the effects of key risk factors on various types of roadway segment crashes with LightGBM and SHAPAccident Analysis & Prevention, 2021, 304 citations IF 5.7 (2023)
DMA-Net: DeepLab With Multi-Scale Attention for Pavement Crack SegmentationIEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2022, 259 citations IF 7.9 (2023)
Applications of machine learning methods in traffic crash severity modelling: current status and future directionsTransport Reviews, 2021, 140 citations IF 9.5 (2023)
Flow-Based Encrypted Network Traffic Classification With Graph Neural NetworksIEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2023, 126 citations IF 4.7 (2023)
Car-following behavior characteristics of adaptive cruise control vehicles based on empirical experimentsTransportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2021, 119 citations IF 5.8 (2023)
On the interpretability of machine learning methods in crash frequency modeling and crash modification factor developmentAccident Analysis & Prevention, 2022, 79 citations IF 5.7 (2023)
Reinforcement Learning based cooperative longitudinal control for reducing traffic oscillations and improving platoon stabilityTransportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2022, 76 citations IF 7.6 (2023)
R1DIT: Privacy-Preserving Malware Traffic Classification With Attention-Based Neural NetworksIEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2023, 53 citations IF 4.7 (2023)
Cyber-physical cascading failure and resilience of power grid: A comprehensive reviewFrontiers in Energy Research, 2023, 50 citations IF 2.6 (2023)

Citations by cluster

Traffic flow, work zones, and crash modeling1,281 31 papers, 41 each
Surrogate safety and connected vehicle analytics597 15 papers, 40 each
Malware and traffic classification with transformers268 9 papers, 30 each
Resilient power grid observability and restoration158 18 papers, 9 each
Trust between people and robots102 18 papers, 6 each
Marine autonomy and infrared perception94 6 papers, 16 each
Multi-band and space-division optical networks58 21 papers, 3 each
Lossy compression and anomaly detection for scientific data54 19 papers, 3 each
Hardware trojans and information flow tracking32 11 papers, 3 each
Sensor networks for structural monitoring22 5 papers, 4 each
Consensus, replication, and blockchain systems11 20 papers, 1 each
Nuclear security, safeguards, and clean heat10 11 papers, 1 each
Multi-agent learning with relational networks9 4 papers, 2 each

Papers per year, by cluster

Students and alumni

Doctoral students in the director's group as they appear in the record, and where the center's graduates and postdocs went: 4 in academia, 11 in industry.

Student	Papers	Journal	First author	Citations	Clusters	Co-authors outside the roster
Arash RezaeePh.D. Candidate, joined 2022	15	3	9	42	Multi-band and space-division optical networks (15)	F. Arpanaei, H. Rabbani
Ryan McCannPh.D. Student, joined 2024	12	3	2	37	Multi-band and space-division optical networks (12)	F. Arpanaei, J. A. Hernández
Ken Patrick WattsPh.D. Student, joined 2022	0	0	0	0	no papers in the record yet
Mehran SasaniniaPh.D. Student, joined 2023	1	0	1	2	Resilient power grid observability and restoration (1)
Ayush PandeyPh.D. Student, joined 2024	0	0	0	0	no papers in the record yet
Suvhasis MukhopadhyayPh.D. Student, joined 2024	0	0	0	0	no papers in the record yet

Alumni

Juzi Zhao Postdoctoral researcher 2015 to 2017. Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, San José State University. 1 paper in the center record, 0 citations
Md Zahidul Islam Ph.D. 2025. Assistant Professor, School of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. 9 papers in the center record, 82 citations
Shamsun Nahar Edib Ph.D. 2024. Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Montana State University. 8 papers in the center record, 75 citations
Yan Cui Ph.D. 2019. Lecturer, Computer Science and Engineering, Santa Clara University. 1 paper in the center record, 0 citations
Amir Ehsani Zonouz Ph.D. 2015. AI and IoT, Accenture; founder and former CEO, airXsys
Arash Deylamsalehi Ph.D. 2017. Quantitative Network Analyst, Google. 1 paper in the center record, 7 citations
Arush Gadkar Postdoctoral researcher. Registered Patent Agent, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Balagangadhar Bathula Postdoctoral researcher 2007 to 2010. Network Cloud and Infrastructure, AT&T
Dylan A. P. Davis Ph.D. 2018. Senior Software Engineer, Hitachi Vantara. 1 paper in the center record, 4 citations
Jeremy M. Plante Ph.D. 2017. Software engineer, Hitachi Vantara
Joan Triay Postdoctoral researcher 2010 to 2011. Specialist, DOCOMO Euro-Labs
Pegah Afsharlar Ph.D. 2020. Data Scientist. 1 paper in the center record, 7 citations
Thilo Schöndienst Ph.D. 2014. Patent examiner, European Patent Office
Travis Kessler Ph.D. 2023. Research Engineer, AIMdyn, Inc.
Yue Wang Ph.D. 2022. Software Engineer, KLA. 2 papers in the center record, 5 citations

Funding and the clusters

Each award is matched to the clusters whose language it shares and whose faculty it names; matches appear on the cluster cards above. 13 of 34 awards match no cluster by that test, either because their output is not yet in the publication record or because the people named on the award are not the ones whose papers carry its language.

ARPO-Sensor Fusion: Autonomous Robotic Planning and Optimization for Intelligence Sensor Fusion Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
BOND-AI: A Standardized Reliability Qualification Methodology for High-Temperature Printed Interfaces and Bond Joints, Enabled by Physics-Informed AI, on a 500 °C-Capable Alumina Platform NextFlex (FlexTech Alliance)
ARPO: Autonomous Robotic Planning and Optimization U.S. Army
Planning Federated AI-Ready Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microscopy and Imaging: A Teach-Explore-Design Framework for Community-Driven Infrastructure National Science Foundation
Reliable and Efficient Data Encoding for Extreme-Scale Simulation and Analysis National Science Foundation
Network Cyberinfrastructure for Biomedical Informatics Innovation NSF CC*DNI
Information Sharing and Its Effect on Tracking Sex Offenders and Community Awareness (SORNA) National Institute of Justice
Command and Control Display Equipment (CCDE) Requirements Specification U.S. Air Force
PROPER: Parallel Resource-Optimized Provisioning of End-to-End Requests U.S. Department of Energy
FLowell: Accelerating Data-Driven Scientific Research at UMass Lowell NSF CC*IIE
Bridging Reliability Analysis and Reality in Sensor Systems: Theories and Applications NSF CSR Small
MASCOT: Manycast Architecture for Service-Oriented Tactical Operations U.S. Marine Corps
NET-SEAL: Teaching Computer Networks Through Simulation Experiments and Animation Library NSF CCLI

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