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George J. Pappas

Defense Threat Reduction Agency · US
Area of research
Computational Theory and Mathematics · Computer Networks and Communications
Research interest
Research interests include Formal Methods in Verification, Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems, Robotic Path Planning Algorithms, and Advanced Control Systems Optimization.
h-index
98
citations
35,669
works
899
NIH funding
primary concept
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Recent publications

Safety Guardrails for LLM-Enabled Robots
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2026cited by 7position: contributordoi
Beyond alignment: Why robotic foundation models need context-aware safety.
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Safe MPC Alignment With Human Directional Feedback
IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Safe Planning in Unknown Environments Using Conformalized Semantic Maps
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Risk-Aware Robotics: Tail Risk Measures in Planning, Control, and Verification [Focus on Education]
IEEE Control Systems 2025cited by 8position: contributordoi
Formal Verification and Control With Conformal Prediction: Practical Safety Guarantees For Autonomous Systems
IEEE Control Systems 2025cited by 6position: contributordoi
Policy Gradient Bounds in Multitask LQR
IEEE Control Systems Letters 2025cited by 2position: contributordoi
PKF: Probabilistic Data Association Kalman Filter for Multi-Object Tracking
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2025cited by 2position: contributordoi
Air-Ground Collaboration for Language-Specified Missions in Unknown Environments
IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics 2025cited by 2position: contributordoi
Finite-Time Analysis of Over-the-Air Federated TD Learning
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Control for Societal-Scale Challenges: Road Map 2030
IEEE Control Systems 2024cited by 104position: lastdoi
Macroscopic resting-state brain dynamics are best described by linear models.
2024cited by 71position: contributordoi
Control for Societal-Scale Challenges: Road Map 2030
IEEE Control Systems 2024cited by 71position: contributordoi
Safe Planning in Dynamic Environments Using Conformal Prediction
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2023cited by 76position: contributordoi
Statistical Learning Theory for Control: A Finite-Sample Perspective
IEEE Control Systems 2023cited by 48position: contributordoi
Conformal Prediction for STL Runtime Verification
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 14th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (with CPS-IoT Week 2023) 2023cited by 33position: contributordoi
Online Learning of the Kalman Filter With Logarithmic Regret
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 2023cited by 20position: contributordoi
Combined Left and Right Temporal Robustness for Control Under STL Specifications
IEEE Control Systems Letters 2023cited by 18position: contributordoi
: Mobility-Driven Integration of Heterogeneous Urban Cyber-Physical Systems Under Disruptive Events<i/>
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 2023cited by 9position: contributordoi
Energy-Aware, Collision-Free Information Gathering for Heterogeneous Robot Teams
IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2023cited by 9position: contributordoi
Federated TD Learning Over Finite-Rate Erasure Channels: Linear Speedup Under Markovian Sampling
IEEE Control Systems Letters 2023cited by 8position: contributordoi
Risk of Stochastic Systems for Temporal Logic Specifications
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems 2023cited by 8position: contributordoi
Safety Verification and Robustness Analysis of Neural Networks via Quadratic Constraints and Semidefinite Programming
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 2022cited by 137position: contributordoi
Perception-Based Temporal Logic Planning in Uncertain Semantic Maps
IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2022cited by 42position: contributordoi
Reactive and Risk-Aware Control for Signal Temporal Logic
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 2022cited by 23position: contributordoi
Distributed Attack-Robust Submodular Maximization for Multirobot Planning
IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2022cited by 22position: contributordoi
Resilient Active Information Acquisition With Teams of Robots
IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2022cited by 19position: contributordoi
Private Weighted Sum Aggregation
IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems 2022cited by 16position: contributordoi
Temporal Robustness of Temporal Logic Specifications: Analysis and Control Design
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems 2022cited by 15position: contributordoi
Robust and Adaptive Sequential Submodular Optimization
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 2022cited by 14position: contributordoi

Grants

CPS: TTP Option: Medium: Collaborative Research: Smoothing Traffic via Energy-efficient Autonomous Driving (STEAD)
NSF1837210$229,9992019–2021PIRePORTER
CPS: Medium: Rethinking Communication and Control for Low-Latency, High Reliability loT Devices
NSF1837253$1,000,0002018–2022PIRePORTER
Symposium:Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Community Planning Grant
NSF1654985$99,1502017–2022PIRePORTER
CPS: Synergy: Collaborative Research: Multiple-Level Predictive Control of Mobile Cyber Physical Systems with Correlated Context
NSF1239152$317,0002012–2016PIRePORTER
CPS: Medium: Quantitative Analysis and Design of Control Networks
NSF0931239$1,509,3192009–2014PIRePORTER
CSR--EHS: Robust Testing by Testing Robustness of Embedded Systems
NSF0720518$500,0002007–2012PIRePORTER
High Confidence Medical Device Software and Systems Workshop (HCMDSS) 2005; Philadelphia, PA
NSF0532968$49,0002005–2006PIRePORTER
Algorithmic Synthesis of Embedded Controllers
NSF0311123$193,0672003–2006PIRePORTER
PECASE: Hierarchical Abstractions of Hybrid Systems
NSF0132716$375,0002002–2007PIRePORTER
Morphological Substrates of Synaptic Transmission
NSF8406724$193,0011984–1988PIRePORTER
Morphological Substrates of Synaptic Transmission
NSF8004688$31,8501981–1984PIRePORTER
Morphological Substrates of Synaptic Transmission
NSF7728493$77,2001977–1980PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

· 56 papers (2019–2026)Lars Lindemann · Springer Nature9 papers (2022–2025)Vasileios Tzoumas · Massachusetts Institute of Technology5 papers (2019–2022)Danielle S. Bassett · University of Pennsylvania5 papers (2020–2024)Victor M. Preciado · Massachusetts Institute of Technology4 papers (2019–2021)Konstantinos Gatsis · University of Southampton4 papers (2019–2021)Vijay Kumar · University of Pennsylvania4 papers (2021–2026)Sergio Pequito · Carnegie Mellon University4 papers (2019–2021)Anastasios Tsiamis · Institute for Biomedical Engineering4 papers (2020–2025) · 4 papers (2019–2026)Nikolay Atanasov · University of California San Diego3 papers (2018–2019)Miroslav Pajić · California University of Pennsylvania3 papers (2014–2018) · 3 papers (2021–2023)Sean L. Bowman · University of Pennsylvania3 papers (2020–2022)Hamed Hassani · Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology3 papers (2021–2026)Alejandro Ribeiro · University of Minnesota3 papers (2019–2021)Zachary Ravichandran · 3 papers (2025–2026)Paulo Tabuada · University of California, Los Angeles2 papers (2015–2016)Brent Schlotfeldt · University of Pennsylvania2 papers (2018–2019)Sanjit A. Seshia · University of California, Berkeley2 papers (2014–2016)