Paper 'Collaborative Safety-Critical Control in Coupled Networked Systems' published in IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, led by PhD alum Brooks Butler
Paper 'Analysis, State Estimation, and Control for the Networked Competitive Multi-Virus SIR Model' published in Automatica, led by former PhD student Ciyuan Zhang
Paper 'Scalable Distributed Reproduction Numbers of Network Epidemics with Differential Privacy' published in IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, led by former postdoc Baike She
PhD student Ian Walter successfully defended dissertation titled 'Modeling Demand Dynamics for Optimal Design of Evolving Products'
NSF CMMI/EDSE-funded project: 'A Networked Dynamical Systems Approach to Enable Optimal Design for Product Evolution (DfPE)'
Recipient of the 2025–2026 Teaching Leadership Award
Launched webapp for learning epidemic spreading over networks: engineering.purdue.edu/epione/
Background
Rita Lane and Norma Fries Assistant Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
Member and Assistant Director of the Center for Innovation in Control, Optimization, and Networks (ICON)
Affiliated with the Integrative Data Science Initiative (IDSI) and the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Member of the PIECE (Project for Inclusion in ECE) Committee
Research interests: Mathematical modeling of dynamic networked systems (e.g., epidemiological, biological, economic systems, infrastructure and social networks); stability analysis, control, and identifiability; model reduction and clustering of dynamic systems; biological applications of control theory