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

P. Du, K. Driggs-Campbell, R. Dong, “Improving the Feasibility of Moment-Based Safety Analysis for Stochastic Dynamics,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2022. [URL]
I. C. Konstantakopoulos, K. Hamilton, Y. Murthy, T. Veeravalli, C. Spanos, R. Dong, “smartSDH: An Experimental Study of Mechanism-Based Building Control,” IEEE Systems Journal, 2022. [URL]
T. Westenbroek, R. Dong, L. J. Ratliff, S. S. Sastry, “Competitive Statistical Estimation with Strategic Data Sources,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2019. [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

R. Dong, E. Miehling, C. Langbort, “Protecting Consumers Against Personalized Pricing: A Stopping Time Approach.” [arXiv preprint]
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

S. Li, R. Dong, C. Wu, “Stabilization Guarantees of Human-Compatible Control via Lyapunov Analysis,” European Control Conference, 2023.
R. Dong, H. Zhang, L. J. Ratliff, “Approximate Regions of Attraction in Learning with Decision-Dependent Distributions,” Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2023.
T. Ji, R. Dong, K. Driggs-Campbell, “Traversing Supervisor Problem: An Approximately Optimal Approach to Multi-Robot Assistance,” Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2022.
K. Mazooji, R. Dong, I. Shomorony, “Private DNA Sequencing: Hiding Information in Discrete Noise,” in the IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2020.
V. Rúbies Royo, E. Mazumdar, R. Dong, C. J. Tomlin, and S. S. Sastry, “Expert Selection in High-Dimensional Markov Decision Processes,” in the IEEE 59th Conference on Decision and Control, 2020.
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 Continuous-Type 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]