Publications

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These publications are organized by type (journal, conference, book chapter, &c.) and then chronologically.

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Journal papers

Published / Accepted

T. Westenbroek, R. Dong, L. J. Ratliff, S. S. Sastry, “Competitive Statistical Estimation with Strategic Data Sources,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. [URL]
L. J. Ratliff, R. Dong, S. Sekar, T. Fiez, “A Perspective on Incentive Design: Challenges and Opportunities,” Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, vol. 2, 2019. [URL]
K. R. Driggs-Campbell, R. Dong, Ruzena Bajcsy, “Robust, Informative Human-in-the-Loop Predictions via Empirical Reachable Sets,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, vol. 3, issue 3, 2018. [URL]
R. Dong, A. A. Cárdenas, L. J. Ratliff, H. Ohlsson, S. S. Sastry, “Quantifying the Utility-Privacy Tradeoff in the Internet of Things,” ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, vol. 2, issue 2, 2018. [URL]
R. Dong and X. Tan, “Modeling and open-loop control of IPMC actuators under changing ambient temperature,” Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 21, no. 6, 2012. [URL]

Preprints

E. Mazumdar, R. Dong, V. Rúbies Royo, C. Tomlin, S. S. Sastry, “A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach for Online Expert Selection in Markov Decision Processes.” [arXiv preprint]
R. Dong, E. Mazumdar, S. S. Sastry, “Optimal Causal Imputation for Control.” [arXiv preprint]
L. J. Ratliff, C. Barreto, R. Dong, H. Ohlsson, A. A. Cárdenas, S. S. Sastry, “Privacy–Differentiated Contracts: Effects of Risk on Demand-Side Management in the Smart Grid.” [arXiv preprint]

Conference papers

Published

E. Miehling, R. Dong, C. Langbort, and T. Başar, “Strategic Inference with a Single Private Sample,” in the IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control, 2019.
O. Afolabi, K. R. Driggs-Campbell, R. Dong, M. Kochenderfer, S. S. Sastry, “People as Sensors: Imputing Maps from Human Actions,” in the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018. [URL]
R. Jia, R. Dong, P. Ganesh, S. S. Sastry, C. Spanos, “Towards a Theory of Free-Lunch Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems,” in the 55th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2017. [URL]
T. Westenbroek, R. Dong, L. J. Ratliff, S. S. Sastry, “Statistical Estimation in Competitive Settings with Strategic Data Sources,” in the IEEE 56th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2017. [URL]
R. Jia, R. Dong, S. S. Sastry, C. Spanos, “Optimal Sensor-Controller Codesign for Privacy in Dynamical Systems,” in the IEEE 56th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2017. [URL]
D. Calderone, R. Dong, S. S. Sastry, “External-Cost Wardrop Equilibria in Routing Games,” in the IEEE 20th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2017. [URL]
R. Jia, R. Dong, S. S. Sastry, C. J. Spanos, “Privacy-Enhanced Architecture for Occupancy-based HVAC Control,” in the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), 2017. [URL]
D. Scobee, L. J. Ratliff, R. Dong, H. Ohlsson, M. Verhaegen, S. S. Sastry, “Nuclear Norm Minimization for Blind Subspace Identification (N2BSID),” in the IEEE 54th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2015. [URL]
R. Dong, W. Krichene, A. M. Bayen, and S. S. Sastry, “Differential Privacy of Populations in Routing Games,” in the IEEE 54th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2015. [URL] [Extended Draft]
S. Krichene, W. Krichene, R. Dong, and A. M. Bayen, “Convergence of heterogeneous distributed learning in stochastic routing games,” in the 53rd Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2015. [URL]
J. Giraldo, A. A. Cárdenas, E. Mojica-Nava, N. Quijano, and R. Dong, “Delay and Sampling Independence of a Consensus Algorithm and its Application to Smart Grid Privacy,” in the IEEE 53nd Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2014. [URL]
L. J. Ratliff, R. Dong, H. Ohlsson, A. A. Cárdenas, and S. S. Sastry, “Privacy and Customer Segmentation in the Smart Grid,” in the IEEE 53nd Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2014. [URL]
H. Ohlsson, L. J. Ratliff, R. Dong, and S. S. Sastry, “Blind Identification via Lifting,” in the 19th IFAC World Congress (IFAC WC), 2014. [URL]
L. J. Ratliff, R. Dong, H. Ohlsson, and S. S. Sastry, “Behavior Modification and Utility Learning via Energy Disaggregation,” in the 19th IFAC World Congress (IFAC WC), 2014. [URL]
R. Dong, L. J. Ratliff, H. Ohlsson, and S. S. Sastry, “Fundamental Limits of Nonintrusive Load Monitoring,” in the Conference on High Confidence Networked Systems (HiCoNS), 2014. [URL]
R. Dong, L. J. Ratliff, H. Ohlsson, and S. S. Sastry, “Energy Disaggregation via Adaptive Filtering,” in the 51st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2013. [URL]
R. Dong, L. J. Ratliff, H. Ohlsson, and S. S. Sastry, “A Dynamical Systems Approach to Energy Disaggregation,” in the IEEE 52nd Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2013. [URL]
H. Ohlsson, A. Y. Yang, R. Dong, and S. S. Sastry, “Nonlinear Basis Pursuit,” in the 47th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2013. [URL]
H. Ohlsson, A. Y. Yang, R. Dong, and S. S. Sastry, “CPRL – An Extension of Compressive Sensing to the Phase Retrieval Problem,” in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012. [URL]
A. A. Cárdenas, S. Amin, G. Schwartz, R. Dong, and S. S. Sastry, “A game theory model for electricity theft detection and privacy-aware control in AMI systems,” in the 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2012. [URL]
H. Ohlsson, A. Y. Yang, R. Dong, and S. S. Sastry, “Compressive Phase Retrieval From Squared Output Measurements Via Semidefinite Programming,” in the 16th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, 2012. [URL]
R. Dong and X. Tan, “Open-loop control of IPMC actuators under varying temperatures,” in Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), 2011. [URL]

Book chapters

R. Dong and L. J. Ratliff. “Energy Disaggregation and the Utility-Privacy Tradeoff,” in Big Data Applications in Power Systems, Elsevier, 2017. [URL]
H. Ohlsson, A. Y. Yang, R. Dong, M. Verhaegen, and S. S. Sastry. “Quadratic Basis Pursuit,” in Regularization, Optimization, Kernels, and Support Vector Machines, Chapman & Hall, 2014. [URL]

Magazine articles

R. Dong and L. J. Ratliff. “Privacy in the Internet of Things,” in The Next Wave: The National Security Agency's review of emerging technologies, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2016. [URL]