Publications

Publications

Journal articles, conference and workshop papers, and theses from across the project, filterable by year, team, and use case. Only published and accepted work is listed.

Papers
36
Journal articles
10
Years
2024–2027

36 of 36 papers

2027

  1. Secure Coordination for Vertiport Sequencing in Advanced Air Mobility

    J. Im, F. Fotiadis, U. Topcu, D. Fridovich-Keil

    AIAA SciTech Forum, 2027Accepted

    ConferenceUT AustinUC-07

2026

  1. A Survey of Security Challenges and Solutions for Advanced Air Mobility and eVTOL Aircraft

    M. Ghazanfari, I. Sharifi, A. Taye, P. Wei, B. C. Ward, X. Koutsoukos, G. Biswas, et al.

    AIAA SciTech Forum, 2026

    ConferenceGWUVanderbilt

  2. A Survey of Security Challenges and Solutions for UAS Traffic Management (UTM) and Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS)

    I. Sharifi, M. Ghazanfari, A. Taye, P. Wei, M. Ahmed, H. T. Kim, M. Ghasemi, V. Gupta, B. C. Ward, X. Koutsoukos, G. Biswas, et al.

    AIAA SciTech Forum, 2026

    ConferenceGWUPurdueVanderbilt

  3. Chance-Constrained Correlated Equilibria for Robust Noncooperative Coordination

    J. Im, D. Fridovich-Keil, U. Topcu

    IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2026

    JournalUT AustinUC-07

  4. Coordinated UAV Beamforming and Control for Directional Jamming and Nulling

    F. Fotiadis, B. M. Sadler, U. Topcu

    American Control Conference (ACC), 2026

    ConferenceUT Austin

  5. Deception Against Data-Driven Linear-Quadratic Control

    F. Fotiadis, A. Kanellopoulos, K. G. Vamvoudakis, U. Topcu

    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2026Conditionally accepted

    JournalUT Austin

  6. Detecting Falsified UAV Telemetry: An SDR Approach to Remote ID Spoofing Detection

    J. Isaacson, B. Bjorkman, S. Zheng, B. C. Ward

    GNU Radio Conference, 2026

    ConferenceVanderbiltUC-03

  7. Detection of Compromised UAVs Using Graph Machine Learning

    N. W. Dahle, R. Canady, A. Coursey, A. Diaz-Gonzalez, C. Lemieux-Mack, B. Bjorkman, A. Taye, B. C. Ward, G. Biswas, X. Koutsoukos

    AIAA SciTech Forum, 2026

    ConferenceVanderbiltUC-05

  8. Distributed Equilibrium-Seeking in Target Coverage Games via Self-Configurable Networks under Limited Communication

    J. Bhargav, Z. Xu, V. Tzoumas, M. Ghasemi, S. Sundaram

    IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2026Accepted

    ConferencePurdue

  9. Emergency Safe Landing Zone Selection in Unmanned Aerial Systems

    N. Aryal, B. Jones, A. Shirkhodaie

    Proc. SPIE 14047, Unmanned Systems Technology XXVIII, 2026

    ConferenceTSUUC-06

  10. Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Cooperative Tactical Deconfliction of Small Unmanned Aerial Systems

    I. Sharifi, A. Zongo, P. Wei

    CVPR Workshop on Multi-Agent Embodied Intelligent Systems Meet Generative-AI Era (MEIS), 2026

    WorkshopGWUUC-02

  11. Finite Time Convergence Analysis of Policy Gradient Learning in Stochastic Stackelberg Games

    P. Das, M. A. Zaman, V. Gupta

    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2026Accepted

    JournalPurdueUC-07

  12. FlyTrap: Physical Distance-Pulling Attack Towards Camera-based Autonomous Target Tracking Systems

    S. Xie, M. Fakih, J. Lu, F. Alshammari, N. Wang, T. Sato, H. Bouzidi, M. Al Faruque, Q. A. Chen

    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2026

    ConferenceUC IrvineUC-01

  13. Game-Theoretic Regulated Decentralized Coordination for Airspace Sector Overload Mitigation

    J. Im, D. Delahaye, D. Fridovich-Keil, U. Topcu

    Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2026Accepted

    JournalUT AustinUC-07

  14. Generating Realistic Air Traffic Control Voice Communication using AI-based Text-to-Speech Models

    D. Vu, P. Wei

    Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS), 2026

    ConferenceGWUUC-04

  15. Iterative Stackelberg Equilibrium Finding for Linear Quadratic Differential Games

    B. Nortmann, P. Das, V. Gupta, T. Mylvaganam

    Automatica, vol. 183, 112648, 2026

    JournalPurdue

  16. Learning Structured Set Utility Functions with Contrastive Element Representations

    J. Bhargav, Y. Chang, M. Ghasemi, S. Sundaram

    Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2026

    JournalPurdue

  17. MirageMarker: A Black-Box Pose Estimation Attack for Autonomous UAV Landing

    J. Lu, F. Alshammari, S. Xie, X. Liang, Q. A. Chen

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026

    ConferenceUC IrvineUC-01

  18. Multi-User Dueling Bandits: A Fair Approach using Nash Social Welfare

    M. H. Ahmed, M. Ghasemi

    Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2026

    JournalPurdueUC-07

  19. Networked Simulation for Cybersecurity Evaluation of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Dense Urban Environments

    A. Diaz-Gonzalez, A. Coursey, B. Bjorkman, D. Shatokhin, C. Lemieux-Mack, N. W. Dahle, A. Taye, R. E. Canady, X. Koutsoukos, G. Biswas, B. C. Ward

    AIAA SciTech Forum, 2026

    ConferenceVanderbiltUC-05UC-03

  20. Noncooperative Coordination via a Trading-Based Auction

    J. Im, F. Fotiadis, D. Delahaye, U. Topcu, D. Fridovich-Keil

    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2026

    JournalUT AustinUC-07

  21. Remote ID Spoofing Attacks and Defenses

    B. Bjorkman, S. Zheng, A. Coursey, C. Lemieux-Mack, S. Gonzalez, A. Diaz-Gonzalez, N. W. Dahle, N. Koroma, R. E. Canady, X. Koutsoukos, G. Biswas, A. Taye, B. C. Ward

    AIAA SciTech Forum, 2026

    ConferenceVanderbiltUC-03

  22. Remote ID Spoofing-Aware Trajectory Planning for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems

    J. Webb, B. Bjorkman, A. Diaz-Gonzalez, A. Coursey, N. W. Dahle, C. Lemieux-Mack, F. Fotiadis, G. Biswas, B. C. Ward, A. Taye

    AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 2026

    ConferenceVanderbiltUT AustinUC-03

  23. Robust Information Selection for Hypothesis Testing with Misclassification Penalties

    J. Bhargav, S. Sundaram, M. Ghasemi

    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2026

    JournalPurdue

  24. Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Small UAS Separation Assurance under GPS Degradation and Spoofing

    A. Zongo, F. Fotiadis, U. Topcu, P. Wei

    IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2026Accepted

    ConferenceGWUUT AustinUC-02

  25. Runtime Safety Filtering for Learned Small UAS Separation Policies under GNSS Degradation

    A. Zongo, P. Wei

    AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 2026

    ConferenceGWUUC-02

  26. See&Say: Vision Language Guided Safe Zone Detection for Autonomous Package Delivery Drones

    M. Ghazanfari, P. Wei

    AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), Orlando, FL, 2026

    ConferenceGWUUC-01

  27. Separation Assurance between Heterogeneous Fleets of Small Unmanned Aerial Systems via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    I. Sharifi, H. T. Kim, M. H. Ahmed, M. Ghasemi, P. Wei

    IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2026

    ConferenceGWUPurdueUC-02

  28. Towards Automated Air Traffic Safety Assessment Around Non-Towered Airports Using Large Language Models

    T. Darrell, M. Ghazanfari, J. Kam, A. Bayen, A. Tabrizian, P. Wei

    AIAA Aviation Forum, 2026

    ConferenceGWU

2025

  1. Dynamic Urban Air Mobility Systems Modeling and Simulation

    A. M. Ibrahim

    MS thesis, Tennessee State University, 2025

    ThesisTSUUC-06

  2. Online Laplacian-Based Representation Learning in Reinforcement Learning

    M. H. Ahmed, J. Bhargav, M. Ghasemi

    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025

    ConferencePurdue

  3. Reinforcement Learning from Multi-level and Episodic Human Feedback

    M. Q. Elahi, S. Oguchienti, M. H. Ahmed, M. Ghasemi

    Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference (L4DC), 2025

    ConferencePurdue

  4. Sensor Scheduling in Intrusion Detection Games with Uncertain Payoffs

    J. Bhargav, S. Sundaram, M. Ghasemi

    Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference (L4DC), 2025

    ConferencePurdue

  5. Towards Automated Design-Time Explainability of Assurance Cases and Trade Spaces

    B. Bjorkman, B. C. Ward, S. Hasan

    International Workshop on Explainability of Real-time Systems and their Analysis (ERSA), IEEE RTSS, 2025

    WorkshopVanderbiltCollinsUC-08

  6. Transformer or CNN? Benchmarking Real-Time Detection Transformer and YOLOv8 for Small UAS Autonomous Landing

    C. Vu, M. Ghazanfari, K. Dong, A. Taye, A. Tabrizian, P. Wei

    AIAA Aviation Forum, 2025

    ConferenceGWUUC-01

2024

  1. Rationality of Learning Algorithms in Repeated Normal-Form Games

    S. Bajaj, P. Das, Y. Vorobeychik, V. Gupta

    IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2024

    JournalPurdue