Principal Investigator
Dr. Murti Salapaka
Professor
His research spans several areas where he has worked extensively on, consensus and communication networks, and applications in nanotechnology. His work bridges systems area with many domain areas. His work gets regularly cited in leading publications such as science and nature. In his research, he has led substantial projects where he has ably coordinated multiple parts of the projects and directed personnel and experts from different areas to successful completion of projects; one such relevant lead effort was coordination and execution of control framework for a residential solutions for managing renewable energy sources and loads in 2013. He coordinated and guided a team comprised of Blake Lundstrom, Brian Benjamin Johnson, and Srinivasa Salapaka toward a successful completion of the project. He has written over 100 peer reviewed articles 4 book chapters and a book on multi-objective control synthesis. He together with his collaborators has also developed a matlab based software for synthesizing controllers with multi-objective criteria and structural constraints.
Education
- B.Tech.: Mechanical Engineering, IIT-Madras, (1991)
- MS: Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara (1993)
- PhD.: Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara (1997)
Research interests
Control and Network Science, Dynamical Systems, Sustainable Energy, Nanotechnology and Related Physics, Molecular Biology, BioPhysics
Publications
212 total (showing 20 most recent)
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Quantifying errors in the Jarzynski estimator
2026 · Journal · Physical Review E, Feb 2026
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Frequency-Domain Better than Time-Domain for Causal Structure Recovery in Dynamical Systems on Networks
2026 · Conference · International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
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Multiple modes of AFM reveal distinct mechanical properties for dystrophin and utrophin not manifest by small fragments
2026 · Journal · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123, no. 3 (2026): e2511722123.
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GenUnfold: Rapidly Predict Protein Mechanical Unfolding Trajectory via a Physics-Guided Diffusion Model
2026 · Conference · Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), PMLR 306, Seoul, South Korea (2026).
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Topology Change Estimation in Power Distribution Networks: A Machine Learning Approach
2026 · Journal · IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 17, no. 4 (July 2026): 3445.
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Orientation control of optically trapped micro-rods using iterative learning control.
2025 · Journal · Optics Express 33.19 (2025): 40191-40207.
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Learning Topology of Meshed Microgrids Using Voltage Magnitude.
2025 · Conference · 2025 IEEE Energy Conversion Conference Congress and Exposition (ECCE). IEEE
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Reconstruction of Dynamic Networks with Cycles Using Partial Ancestral Graphs and Properties of Wiener Filters.
2025 · Conference · 64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
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Risk Sharing Among Microgrids: Connectivity Requirements and Optimal Control.
2025 · Abstract / other · 61st Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing Proceedings
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Abstract Wed051: Microtubule Reorganization in Response to Vasoconstrictive Peptides Limits Kinesin-based Transport of the T-tubule Anchoring Protein
2025 · Abstract / other · Circulation Research, 2025
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A Physics-Augmented Deep Learning Framework for Classifying Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy Data
2025 · Conference · Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR) 267 (2025): 24950–24974.
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Distributed Difference of Convex Optimization,
2024 · Conference · 2024 60th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Urbana, IL, USA
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A Distributed Malicious Agent Detection Scheme for Resilient Power Apportioning in Microgrids,
2024 · Conference · IECON 2024 - 50th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Chicago, IL, USA
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A Plug and Play Distributed Secondary Controller for Microgrids with Grid-Forming Inverters,
2024 · Conference · IECON 2024 - 50th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Chicago, IL, USA
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Guaranteeing Service in Connected Microgrids: Storage Planning and Optimal Power Sharing Policy,
2024 · Conference · 2024 American Control Conference (ACC), Toronto, ON, Canada
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Output Impedance Shaping of GFM Inverters Using Robust H∞ 2-DOF Controllers,
2024 · Conference · 2024 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE), Phoenix, AZ, USA
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Information theoretically optimal sample complexity of learning dynamical directed acyclic graphs.
2024 · Conference · International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics
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Assessing Mechanical Properties of a Utrophin Fragment with Two Operational Modes.
2024 · Abstract / other · Bulletin of the American Physical Society (2024).
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PWM Inverter Based Active Filter for High Frequency AC Systems in Space Applications
2024 · Conference · 2024 IEEE International Telecommunications Energy Conference (INTELEC): 1–6.
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Phosphorylation alters the mechanical stiffness of a model fragment of the dystrophin homologue utrophin.
2023 · Journal · Journal of Biological Chemistry 299