Research

Affiliations

  • Center of Urban Science and Progress (CUSP)
  • NYU Center for Cyber Security (CCS)
  • Systems and Control Group (SCG)
  • Lab for Agile and Resilient Systems (LARX)
  • Connected Cities with Smart Transportation (C2SMART)

Main Research Interests

  • Game Theory and Applications
  • Control Theory and Dynamic Games
  • Reinforcement Learning and Stochastic Control
  • Internet of Things and Cloud Computing
  • Resilient and Secure Socio-Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Adversarial Machine Learning and Signal Processing
  • Cyber Deception and Agility
  • Game and Decision Theory for Cyber Security
  • Economics and Optimization of Smart Energy Systems
  • Resource Allocations in Communication Networks
  • Smart energy systems and renewable resources
  • Smart transportation systems and autonomous and connected vehicles
  • Resilient and Sustainable Critical Infrastructures

Research Topics of Interests

  • Cyber security and moving target defense
  • Science of security and resilience
  • Resilient control systems
  • Distributed control, optimization and learning
  • Optimal control and differential games
  • Large population games and mean-field game theory
  • Multi-layer and multi-resolution games
  • Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
  • Stochastic control and optimization
  • Game theory and mechanism design
  • Reinforcement learning in multi-agent systems
  • Cloud computing and resource allocations
  • Power systems and renewable energy resources
  • Security problems in control systems, social networks, communication networks, and smart grids
  • Analysis and simulation of biomolecular kinetics and cellular dynamics
  • System modeling in immunobiology and neuroscience.
  • Traffic flow modeling, estimation and control
  • Health informatics and economics
  • Public policy and law on energy and healthcare systems
  • Engineering education

Current PhD Students:

  • Juntao Chen
  • Rui Zhang
  • Tao Zhang
  • Linan Huang
  • Junaid Farooq
  • Yunhan Huang
  • Shutian Liu
  • Guanze Peng
  • Yun Li
  • Tao Li
  • Siyu Zhou
  • Shizhou Xu
  • Yuhan Zhao
  • Yunfei Ge
  • Griffin Rule

Graduated Phd Students:

  • Jeff Pawlick
  • Zhiheng Xu

Visiting Scholars:

  • Veeraruna Kavitha, 2019
  • Hideaki Ishii, 2019
  • Jose Maria Maestre, 2019
  • Aneel Tanwani, 2017
  • Karel Horak, 2017
  • Corinne Touati, 2017
  • Yezekael Hayel, 2014-2015
  • Tounsi Bayrem, 2015