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% PREPRINTS/SUBMITTED MANUSCRIPTS

@article{nagf,
  author = {Joao V. Cavalcanti and Laurent Lessard and Ashia C. Wilson},
  journal = {arXiv e-print},
  title = {{Adaptive acceleration without strong convexity priors or restarts}},
  year = 2025,
  note = {{\url{http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13033}}},
  keywords = {preprint},
}

@article{algeq,
  author = {Laurent Lessard and Madeleine Udell},
  journal = {arXiv e-print},
  title = {{Algebraic characterization of equivalence between optimization algorithms}},
  year = 2024,
  note = {{\url{http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04972}}},
  keywords = {preprint},
}

@article{lqrdp,
  author = {Jietian Liu and Laurent Lessard and Peter Seiler},
  journal = {arXiv e-print},
  title = {{Stochastic LQR design with disturbance preview}},
  year = 2024,
  note = {{\url{http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06662}}},
  keywords = {preprint},
}

@article{optalg,
  author = {Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard},
  journal = {arXiv e-print},
  title = {{The speed-robustness trade-off for first-order methods with additive gradient noise}},
  year = 2021,
  note = {{\url{http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.05059}}},
  keywords = {preprint},
}

% TO APPEAR

@article{dpkf,
  author = {Mohammad Hussein Yoosefian Nooshabadi and Laurent Lessard},
  journal = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control},
  title = {{State estimation for linear systems with non-Gaussian measurement noise via dynamic programming}},
  year = 2025,
  month = dec,
  doi = {},
  note = {(in press)},
  keywords = {journal, estimation},
}

% PUBLISHED JOURNAL ARTICLES

@article{c2m,
  author = {Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard},
  journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
  title = {{The fastest known first-order method for minimizing twice continuously differentiable smooth strongly convex functions}},
  year = 2025,
  month = jun,
  day = 1,
  volume = 9,
  pages = {655-660},
  doi = {10.1109/LCSYS.2025.3576681},
  keywords = {journal, algopt},
}

@article{stsens,
  author = {Mohammad Hussein Yoosefian Nooshabadi and Rifat Sipahi and Laurent Lessard},
  journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
  title = {{Stealthy optimal range-sensor placement for target localization}},
  year = 2024,
  month = dec,
  day = 9,
  volume = 8,
  pages = {2763-2768},
  doi = {10.1109/LCSYS.2024.3513814},
  keywords = {journal, multiagent},
}

@article{dyndj,
  author = {Mruganka Kashyap and Laurent Lessard},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control},
  title = {{Optimal control of multi-agent systems with processing delays}},
  year = 2024,
  month = aug,
  day = 1,
  volume = 69,
  number = 8,
  pages = {5141-5153},
  doi = {10.1109/TAC.2023.3346934},
  keywords = {journal, decent},
}

@article{leuk,
  author = {Margaret P. Chapman and Emily Jensen and Steven M. Chan and Laurent Lessard},
  journal = {Automatica},
  title = {{Information-theoretic multi-time-scale partially observable systems with inspiration from leukemia treatment}},
  year = 2024,
  month = may,
  day = 1,
  volume = 163,
  pages = {111546},
  doi = {10.1016/j.automatica.2024.111546},
  keywords = {journal, },
}

@article{sips,
  author = {Saman Cyrus and Laurent Lessard},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control},
  title = {{Generalized necessary and sufficient robust boundedness results for feedback systems}},
  year = 2023,
  month = sep,
  day = 1,
  volume = 68,
  number = 9,
  pages = {5693-5698},
  doi = {10.1109/TAC.2022.3222755},
  keywords = {journal, intercon},
}

@article{rdlqr,
  author = {Mruganka Kashyap and Laurent Lessard},
  journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
  title = {{Guaranteed stability margins for decentralized linear quadratic regulators}},
  year = 2023,
  month = may,
  day = 29,
  volume = 7,
  pages = {1778-1782},
  doi = {10.1109/LCSYS.2023.3280868},
  keywords = {journal, decent},
}

@article{sunshine,
  author = {Melissa A. Schoenlein and Johnny Campos and Kevin J. Lande and Laurent Lessard and Karen B. Schloss},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  title = {{Unifying effects of direct and relational associations for visual communication}},
  year = 2023,
  month = jan,
  day = 1,
  volume = 29,
  number = 1,
  pages = {385-395},
  doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2022.3209443},
  keywords = {journal, color},
}

@article{optcon,
  author = {Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard},
  journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
  title = {{A universal decomposition for distributed optimization algorithms}},
  year = 2022,
  month = jun,
  day = 13,
  volume = 6,
  pages = {3044-3049},
  doi = {10.1109/LCSYS.2022.3182640},
  keywords = {journal, algopt},
}

@article{dissalg,
  author = {Laurent Lessard},
  journal = {IEEE Control Systems Magazine},
  title = {{The analysis of optimization algorithms: A dissipativity approach}},
  year = 2022,
  month = jun,
  day = 1,
  volume = 42,
  number = 3,
  pages = {58-72},
  doi = {10.1109/MCS.2022.3157115},
  keywords = {journal, algopt},
}

@article{sdthry,
  author = {Kushin Mukherjee and Brian Yin and Brianne E. Sherman and Laurent Lessard and Karen B. Schloss},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  title = {{Context matters: A theory of semantic discriminability for perceptual encoding systems}},
  year = 2022,
  month = jan,
  day = 1,
  volume = 28,
  number = 1,
  pages = {697-706},
  doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2021.3114780},
  keywords = {journal, color},
}

@article{giqc,
  author = {Guodong Zhang and Xuchan Bao and Laurent Lessard and Roger Grosse},
  journal = {Journal of Machine Learning Research},
  title = {{A unified analysis of first-order methods for smooth games via integral quadratic constraints}},
  year = 2021,
  month = jun,
  day = 21,
  volume = 22,
  number = 103,
  pages = {1-39},
  doi = {http://jmlr.org/papers/v22/20-1068.html},
  keywords = {journal, algopt, machinelearning},
}

@article{cvarb,
  author = {Margaret P. Chapman and Laurent Lessard},
  journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
  title = {{Toward a scalable upper bound for a CVaR-LQ problem}},
  year = 2021,
  month = jun,
  day = 7,
  volume = 6,
  pages = {920-925},
  doi = {10.1109/LCSYS.2021.3086842},
  keywords = {journal, algopt},
}

@article{sgdn,
  author = {Bin Hu and Peter Seiler and Laurent Lessard},
  journal = {Mathematical Programming},
  title = {{Analysis of biased stochastic gradient descent using sequential semidefinite programs}},
  year = 2021,
  month = may,
  day = 1,
  volume = 187,
  number = 1,
  pages = {384-408},
  doi = {10.1007/s10107-020-01486-1},
  keywords = {journal, algopt},
}

@article{semdisc,
  author = {Karen B. Schloss and Zachary Leggon and Laurent Lessard},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  title = {{Semantic discriminability for visual communication}},
  year = 2021,
  month = feb,
  day = 1,
  volume = 27,
  number = 2,
  pages = {1022-1031},
  doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2020.3030434},
  keywords = {journal, color},
}

@article{distralg,
  author = {Akhil Sundararajan and Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems},
  title = {{Analysis and design of first-order distributed optimization algorithms over time-varying graphs}},
  year = 2020,
  month = dec,
  day = 1,
  volume = 7,
  number = 4,
  pages = {1597-1608},
  doi = {10.1109/TCNS.2020.2988009},
  keywords = {journal, algopt},
}

@article{cmap,
  author = {Shannon C. Sibrel and Ragini Rathore and Laurent Lessard and Karen B. Schloss},
  journal = {Journal of Vision},
  title = {{The relation between color and spatial structure for interpreting colormap data visualizations}},
  year = 2020,
  month = nov,
  day = 1,
  volume = 20,
  number = 12,
  pages = {7},
  doi = {10.1167/jov.20.12.7},
  keywords = {journal, color},
}

@article{colconest,
  author = {Ragini Rathore and Zachary Leggon and Laurent Lessard and Karen B. Schloss},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  title = {{Estimating color-concept associations from image statistics}},
  year = 2020,
  month = jan,
  day = 1,
  volume = 26,
  number = 1,
  pages = {1226-1235},
  doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2019.2934536},
  keywords = {journal, color},
}

@article{binoc,
  author = {Bradley S. Gundlach and Michel Frising and Alireza Shahsafi and Gregory Vershbow and Chenghao Wan and Jad Salman},
  journal = {Scientific Reports},
  title = {{Design considerations for the enhancement of human color vision by breaking binocular redundancy}},
  year = 2018,
  month = aug,
  day = 10,
  volume = 8,
  pages = {11971},
  doi = {10.1038/s41598-018-30403-y},
  keywords = {journal, thinfilm},
}

@article{recyc,
  author = {Karen B. Schloss and Laurent Lessard and Charlotte S. Walmsley and Kathleen Foley},
  journal = {Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications},
  title = {{Color inference in visual communication: The meaning of colors in recycling}},
  year = 2018,
  month = feb,
  day = 21,
  volume = 3,
  number = 5,
  pages = {1-17},
  doi = {10.1186/s41235-018-0090-y},
  keywords = {journal, color},
}

@article{colpref,
  author = {Karen B. Schloss and Laurent Lessard and Chris Racey and Anya C. Hurlbert},
  journal = {Vision Research},
  title = {{Modeling color preference using color space metrics}},
  year = 2017,
  month = jul,
  day = 28,
  volume = 151,
  pages = {99-116},
  doi = {10.1016/j.visres.2017.07.001},
  keywords = {journal, color},
}

@article{qico,
  author = {Laurent Lessard and Sanjay Lall},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control},
  title = {{Convexity of decentralized controller synthesis}},
  year = 2016,
  month = oct,
  day = 1,
  volume = 61,
  number = 10,
  pages = {3122-3127},
  doi = {10.1109/TAC.2015.2504179},
  keywords = {journal, tract},
}

@article{iqcopt,
  author = {Laurent Lessard and Benjamin Recht and Andrew Packard},
  journal = {SIAM Journal on Optimization},
  title = {{Analysis and design of optimization algorithms via integral quadratic constraints}},
  year = 2016,
  month = jan,
  day = 1,
  volume = 26,
  number = 1,
  pages = {57-95},
  doi = {10.1137/15M1009597},
  keywords = {journal, algopt},
}

@article{ccis,
  author = {Chris Meissen and Laurent Lessard and Murat Arcak and Andrew Packard},
  journal = {Automatica},
  title = {{Compositional performance certification of interconnected systems using ADMM}},
  year = 2015,
  month = nov,
  day = 1,
  volume = 61,
  pages = {55-63},
  doi = {10.1016/j.automatica.2015.07.027},
  keywords = {journal, intercon},
}

@article{spdel,
  author = {Andrew Lamperski and Laurent Lessard},
  journal = {Automatica},
  title = {{Optimal decentralized state-feedback control with sparsity and delays}},
  year = 2015,
  month = aug,
  day = 1,
  volume = 58,
  pages = {143-151},
  doi = {10.1016/j.automatica.2015.05.010},
  keywords = {journal, decent},
}

@article{tpof,
  author = {Laurent Lessard and Sanjay Lall},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control},
  title = {{Optimal control of two-player systems with output feedback}},
  year = 2015,
  month = aug,
  day = 1,
  volume = 60,
  number = 8,
  pages = {2129-2144},
  doi = {10.1109/TAC.2015.2400658},
  keywords = {journal, decent},
}

@article{alqi,
  author = {Laurent Lessard and Sanjay Lall},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems},
  title = {{An algebraic approach to the control of decentralized systems}},
  year = 2014,
  month = dec,
  day = 1,
  volume = 1,
  number = 4,
  pages = {308-317},
  doi = {10.1109/TCNS.2014.2357501},
  keywords = {journal, tract},
}

@article{palomar,
  author = {Laurent Lessard and Douglas G. MacMynowski and Matthew West and Antonin H. Bouchez and Sanjay Lall},
  journal = {Optics Letters},
  title = {{Experimental validation of single-iteration multigrid wavefront reconstruction at the Palomar Observatory}},
  year = 2008,
  month = sep,
  day = 1,
  volume = 33,
  number = 18,
  pages = {2047-2049},
  doi = {10.1364/OL.33.002047},
  keywords = {journal, adopt},
}

@article{warm,
  author = {Laurent Lessard and Matthew West and Douglas G. MacMynowski and Sanjay Lall},
  journal = {Journal of the Optical Society of America A},
  title = {{Warm-started wavefront reconstruction for adaptive optics}},
  year = 2008,
  month = may,
  day = 1,
  volume = 25,
  number = 5,
  pages = {1147-1155},
  doi = {10.1364/JOSAA.25.001147},
  keywords = {journal, adopt},
}

% PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

@inproceedings{dpkf_cdc,
  author = {Mohammad Hussein Yoosefian Nooshabadi and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control},
  title = {{State estimation for linear systems with non-Gaussian measurement noise via dynamic programming}},
  year = 2025,
  month = dec,
  pages = {},
  doi = {},
  keywords = {conference, estimation},
}

@inproceedings{rwcbf_acc,
  author = {Milad Alipour Shahraki and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {American Control Conference},
  title = {{Spacecraft attitude control under reaction wheel constraints using control Lyapunov and control barrier functions
}},
  year = 2025,
  month = jul,
  pages = {940-945},
  doi = {},
  keywords = {conference, aero},
}

@inproceedings{kda_aistats,
  author = {Avinandan Bose and Laurent Lessard and Maryam Fazel and Krishnamurthy Dj Dvijotham},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics},
  title = {{Keeping up with dynamic attackers: Certifying robustness to adaptive online data poisoning}},
  year = 2025,
  month = may,
  pages = {},
  doi = {},
  keywords = {conference, teach, machinelearning},
}

@inproceedings{adab_iclr,
  author = {Joao V. Cavalcanti and Laurent Lessard and Ashia C. Wilson},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations},
  title = {{Adaptive backtracking line search}},
  year = 2025,
  month = apr,
  pages = {},
  doi = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=SrGP0RQbYH},
  keywords = {conference, adapalg},
}

@inproceedings{mpp_cdc,
  author = {Matthew T. Wallace and Brett Streetman and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control},
  title = {{Model predictive planning: Trajectory planning in obstruction-dense environments for low-agility aircraft}},
  year = 2024,
  month = dec,
  pages = {8288-8293},
  doi = {10.1109/CDC56724.2024.10886112},
  keywords = {conference, motion},
}

@inproceedings{adap_icml,
  author = {Avinandan Bose and Madeleine Udell and Laurent Lessard and Maryam Fazel and Krishnamurthy Dj Dvijotham},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning},
  title = {{Certifying robustness to adaptive data poisoning}},
  year = 2024,
  month = jul,
  pages = {},
  doi = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=HF8PmUAaFu},
  keywords = {conference, teach, machinelearning},
}

@inproceedings{opbad_aeroc,
  author = {Daniel C. Berkenstock and Juan J. Alonso and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {IEEE Aerospace Conference},
  title = {{Orthonormal polynomial bases for airfoil design}},
  year = 2024,
  month = mar,
  pages = {1-9},
  doi = {10.1109/AERO58975.2024.10521086},
  keywords = {conference, aero},
}

@inproceedings{pridu_cdc,
  author = {Bryan Van Scoy and John W. Simpson-Porco and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control},
  title = {{Automated Lyapunov analysis of primal-dual optimization algorithms: An interpolation approach}},
  year = 2023,
  month = dec,
  pages = {1306-1311},
  doi = {10.1109/CDC49753.2023.10384285},
  keywords = {conference, algopt},
}

@inproceedings{tut-lyaplift_cdc,
  author = {Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control},
  title = {{A tutorial on a Lyapunov-based approach to the analysis of iterative optimization algorithms}},
  year = 2023,
  month = dec,
  pages = {3003-3008},
  doi = {10.1109/CDC49753.2023.10384074},
  keywords = {conference, algopt},
}

@inproceedings{tut-optcon_cdc,
  author = {Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control},
  title = {{A tutorial on the structure of distributed optimization algorithms}},
  year = 2023,
  month = dec,
  pages = {3009-3014},
  doi = {10.1109/CDC49753.2023.10383319},
  keywords = {conference, algopt},
}

@inproceedings{chypr_aiaaf,
  author = {Daniel C. Berkenstock and Juan J. Alonso and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {AIAA Aviation Forum},
  title = {{Shape optimization of hypersonic lifting vehicles via convex relaxation}},
  year = 2023,
  month = jun,
  pages = {1-12},
  doi = {10.2514/6.2023-4451},
  keywords = {conference, aero},
}

@inproceedings{chypo_aeroc,
  author = {Daniel C. Berkenstock and Juan J. Alonso and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {IEEE Aerospace Conference},
  title = {{Convex optimization of low observability hypersonic vehicles}},
  year = 2023,
  month = mar,
  pages = {1-11},
  doi = {10.1109/AERO55745.2023.10115785},
  keywords = {conference, aero},
}

@inproceedings{cairs_aiaas,
  author = {Daniel C. Berkenstock and Juan J. Alonso and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {AIAA SciTech Forum},
  title = {{Convex optimization of thin airfoils using cubic splines}},
  year = 2023,
  month = jan,
  pages = {1-15},
  doi = {10.2514/6.2023-0651},
  keywords = {conference, aero},
}

@inproceedings{alift_cdc,
  author = {Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control},
  title = {{Absolute stability via lifting and interpolation}},
  year = 2022,
  month = dec,
  pages = {6217-6223},
  doi = {10.1109/CDC51059.2022.9993272},
  keywords = {conference, algopt},
}

@inproceedings{pdekf_necsys,
  author = {Juncal Arbelaiz and Emily Jensen and Bassam Bamieh and Anette E. Hosoi and Ali Jadbabaie and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems},
  title = {{Information structures of the Kalman filter for the elastic wave equation}},
  year = 2022,
  month = jul,
  pages = {1-6},
  doi = {10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.07.226},
  keywords = {conference, pde},
}

@inproceedings{cairf_aiaaf,
  author = {Daniel C. Berkenstock and Juan J. Alonso and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {AIAA Aviation Forum},
  title = {{A convex optimization approach to thin airfoil design}},
  year = 2022,
  month = jun,
  pages = {1-15},
  doi = {10.2514/6.2022-3356},
  keywords = {conference, aero},
}

@inproceedings{agda_aistats,
  author = {Guodong Zhang and Yuanhao Wang and Laurent Lessard and Roger Grosse},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics},
  title = {{Near-optimal local convergence of alternating gradient descent-ascent for minimax optimization}},
  year = 2022,
  month = mar,
  pages = {7659-7679},
  doi = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v151/zhang22e.html},
  keywords = {conference, algopt, machinelearning},
}

@inproceedings{bcon_cdc,
  author = {Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control},
  title = {{Systematic analysis of distributed optimization algorithms over jointly-connected networks}},
  year = 2020,
  month = dec,
  pages = {3096-3101},
  doi = {10.1109/CDC42340.2020.9303998},
  keywords = {conference, algopt},
}

@inproceedings{dyndd_cdc,
  author = {Mruganka Kashyap and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control},
  title = {{Agent-level optimal LQG control of dynamically decoupled systems with processing delays}},
  year = 2020,
  month = dec,
  pages = {5980-5985},
  doi = {10.1109/CDC42340.2020.9303979},
  keywords = {conference, decent},
}

@inproceedings{algosyn_acc,
  author = {Laurent Lessard and Peter Seiler},
  booktitle = {American Control Conference},
  title = {{Direct synthesis of iterative algorithms with bounds on achievable worst-case convergence rate}},
  year = 2020,
  month = jul,
  pages = {119-125},
  doi = {10.23919/ACC45564.2020.9147401},
  keywords = {conference, algopt},
}

@inproceedings{poison_l4dc,
  author = {Xuezhou Zhang and Xiaojin Zhu and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control},
  title = {{Online data poisoning attacks}},
  year = 2020,
  month = jun,
  pages = {201-210},
  doi = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v120/zhang20b.html},
  keywords = {conference, teach},
}

@inproceedings{circ_cdc,
  author = {Saman Cyrus and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control},
  title = {{Unified necessary and sufficient conditions for the robust stability of interconnected sector-bounded systems}},
  year = 2019,
  month = dec,
  pages = {7690-7695},
  doi = {10.1109/CDC40024.2019.9029605},
  keywords = {conference, intercon},
}

@inproceedings{counter-iqc_cdc,
  author = {Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control},
  title = {{Integral quadratic constraints: Exact convergence rates and worst-case trajectories}},
  year = 2019,
  month = dec,
  pages = {7677-7682},
  doi = {10.1109/CDC40024.2019.9029588},
  keywords = {conference, algopt},
}

@inproceedings{dynd_cdc,
  author = {Mruganka Kashyap and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control},
  title = {{Explicit agent-level optimal cooperative controllers for dynamically decoupled systems with output feedback}},
  year = 2019,
  month = dec,
  pages = {8254-8259},
  doi = {10.1109/CDC40024.2019.9029822},
  keywords = {conference, decent},
}

@inproceedings{repcom_necsys,
  author = {Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems},
  title = {{A distributed optimization algorithm over time-varying graphs with efficient gradient evaluations}},
  year = 2019,
  month = sep,
  pages = {357-362},
  doi = {10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.12.181},
  keywords = {conference, algopt},
}

@inproceedings{canform_acc,
  author = {Akhil Sundararajan and Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {American Control Conference},
  title = {{A canonical form for first-order distributed optimization algorithms}},
  year = 2019,
  month = jul,
  pages = {4075-4080},
  doi = {10.23919/ACC.2019.8814838},
  keywords = {conference, algopt},
}

@inproceedings{lsteach_aistats,
  author = {Laurent Lessard and Xuezhou Zhang and Xiaojin Zhu},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics},
  title = {{An optimal control approach to sequential machine teaching}},
  year = 2019,
  month = apr,
  pages = {2495-2503},
  doi = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v89/lessard19a.html},
  keywords = {conference, teach, machinelearning},
}

@inproceedings{disstoch_icml,
  author = {Bin Hu and Stephen Wright and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning},
  title = {{Dissipativity theory for accelerating stochastic variance reduction: A unified analysis of SVRG and Katyusha using semidefinite programs}},
  year = 2018,
  month = jul,
  pages = {2038-2047},
  doi = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v80/hu18b.html},
  keywords = {conference, algopt, machinelearning},
}

@inproceedings{lyapfun_icml,
  author = {Adrien Taylor and Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning},
  title = {{Lyapunov functions for first-order methods: Tight automated convergence guarantees}},
  year = 2018,
  month = jul,
  pages = {4897-4906},
  doi = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v80/taylor18a.html},
  keywords = {conference, algopt, machinelearning},
}

@inproceedings{ralg_acc,
  author = {Saman Cyrus and Bin Hu and Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {American Control Conference},
  title = {{A robust accelerated optimization algorithm for strongly convex functions}},
  year = 2018,
  month = jun,
  pages = {1376-1381},
  doi = {10.23919/ACC.2018.8430824},
  keywords = {conference, algopt},
}

@inproceedings{distrop_aller,
  author = {Akhil Sundararajan and Bin Hu and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing},
  title = {{Robust convergence analysis of distributed optimization algorithms}},
  year = 2017,
  month = oct,
  pages = {1206-1212},
  doi = {10.1109/Allerton.2017.8262874},
  keywords = {conference, algopt},
}

@inproceedings{diss_icml,
  author = {Bin Hu and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning},
  title = {{Dissipativity theory for Nesterov’s accelerated method}},
  year = 2017,
  month = aug,
  pages = {1549-1557},
  doi = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v70/hu17a.html},
  keywords = {conference, algopt, machinelearning},
}

@inproceedings{cint_acc,
  author = {Bin Hu and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {American Control Conference},
  title = {{Control interpretations for first-order optimization methods}},
  year = 2017,
  month = may,
  pages = {3114-3119},
  doi = {10.23919/ACC.2017.7963426},
  keywords = {conference, algopt},
}

@inproceedings{eiqc_cdc,
  author = {Ross Boczar and Laurent Lessard and Benjamin Recht},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control},
  title = {{Exponential convergence bounds using integral quadratic constraints}},
  year = 2015,
  month = dec,
  pages = {7516-7521},
  doi = {10.1109/CDC.2015.7403406},
  keywords = {conference, algopt},
}

@inproceedings{iqcadmm_icml,
  author = {Robert Nishihara and Laurent Lessard and Benjamin Recht and Andrew Packard and Michael I. Jordan},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning},
  title = {{A general analysis of the convergence of ADMM}},
  year = 2015,
  month = jul,
  pages = {343-352},
  doi = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v37/nishihara15.html},
  keywords = {conference, algopt, machinelearning},
}

@inproceedings{npofa_acc,
  author = {Ashutosh Nayyar and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {American Control Conference},
  title = {{Structural results for partially nested LQG systems over graphs}},
  year = 2015,
  month = jul,
  pages = {5457-5464},
  doi = {10.1109/ACC.2015.7172193},
  keywords = {conference, decent},
}

@inproceedings{cinl_cdc,
  author = {Chris Meissen and Laurent Lessard and Murat Arcak and Andrew Packard},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control},
  title = {{Performance certification of interconnected nonlinear systems using ADMM}},
  year = 2014,
  month = dec,
  pages = {5131-5136},
  doi = {10.1109/CDC.2014.7040191},
  keywords = {conference, intercon},
}

@inproceedings{metp_cdc,
  author = {Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control},
  title = {{State-space solution to a minimum-entropy H-infinity optimal control problem with a nested information constraint}},
  year = 2014,
  month = dec,
  pages = {4026-4031},
  doi = {10.1109/CDC.2014.7040015},
  keywords = {conference, decent},
}

@inproceedings{cisd_acc,
  author = {Chris Meissen and Laurent Lessard and Andrew Packard},
  booktitle = {American Control Conference},
  title = {{Performance certification of interconnected systems using decomposition techniques}},
  year = 2014,
  month = jun,
  pages = {5030-5036},
  doi = {10.1109/ACC.2014.6859323},
  keywords = {conference, intercon},
}

@inproceedings{tpof_finite_cdc,
  author = {Laurent Lessard and Ashutosh Nayyar},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control},
  title = {{Structural results and explicit solution for two-player LQG systems on a finite time horizon}},
  year = 2013,
  month = dec,
  pages = {6542-6549},
  doi = {10.1109/CDC.2013.6760924},
  keywords = {conference, decent},
}

@inproceedings{dsep_aller,
  author = {Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing},
  title = {{A separation principle for decentralized state-feedback optimal control}},
  year = 2013,
  month = oct,
  pages = {528-534},
  doi = {10.1109/Allerton.2013.6736570},
  keywords = {conference, decent},
}

@inproceedings{realizability_acc,
  author = {Laurent Lessard and Maxim Kristalny and Ander Rantzer},
  booktitle = {American Control Conference},
  title = {{On structured realizability and stabilizability of linear systems}},
  year = 2013,
  month = jun,
  pages = {5694-5700},
  doi = {10.1109/ACC.2013.6580744},
  keywords = {conference, tract},
}

@inproceedings{bcof_cdc,
  author = {Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control},
  title = {{Decentralized LQG control of systems with a broadcast architecture}},
  year = 2012,
  month = dec,
  pages = {6241-6246},
  doi = {10.1109/CDC.2012.6426441},
  keywords = {conference, decent},
}

@inproceedings{tpdsf_aller,
  author = {Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing},
  title = {{Optimal control of a fully decentralized quadratic regulator}},
  year = 2012,
  month = oct,
  pages = {48-54},
  doi = {10.1109/Allerton.2012.6483198},
  keywords = {conference, decent},
}

@inproceedings{sparsedelay_necsys,
  author = {Andrew Lamperski and Laurent Lessard},
  booktitle = {IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems},
  title = {{Optimal state-feedback control under sparsity and delay constraints}},
  year = 2012,
  month = sep,
  pages = {204-209},
  doi = {10.3182/20120914-2-US-4030.00017},
  keywords = {conference, decent},
}

@inproceedings{tpofb_acc,
  author = {Laurent Lessard and Sanjay Lall},
  booktitle = {American Control Conference},
  title = {{Optimal controller synthesis for the decentralized two-player problem with output feedback}},
  year = 2012,
  month = jun,
  pages = {6314-6321},
  doi = {10.1109/ACC.2012.6315405},
  keywords = {conference, decent},
}

@inproceedings{tpofa_aller,
  author = {Laurent Lessard and Sanjay Lall},
  booktitle = {Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing},
  title = {{A state-space solution to the two-player decentralized optimal control problem}},
  year = 2011,
  month = sep,
  pages = {1559-1564},
  doi = {10.1109/Allerton.2011.6120353},
  keywords = {conference, decent},
}

@inproceedings{qi_necessity_acc,
  author = {Laurent Lessard and Sanjay Lall},
  booktitle = {American Control Conference},
  title = {{Quadratic invariance is necessary and sufficient for convexity}},
  year = 2011,
  month = jun,
  pages = {5360-5362},
  doi = {10.1109/ACC.2011.5990928},
  keywords = {conference, tract},
}

@inproceedings{qi_algebra_cdc,
  author = {Laurent Lessard and Sanjay Lall},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control},
  title = {{An algebraic framework for quadratic invariance}},
  year = 2010,
  month = dec,
  pages = {2698-2703},
  doi = {10.1109/CDC.2010.5718172},
  keywords = {conference, tract},
}

@inproceedings{iqi_acc,
  author = {Laurent Lessard and Sanjay Lall},
  booktitle = {American Control Conference},
  title = {{Internal quadratic invariance and decentralized control}},
  year = 2010,
  month = jun,
  pages = {5596-5601},
  doi = {10.1109/ACC.2010.5531024},
  keywords = {conference, tract},
}

@inproceedings{reduction_cdc,
  author = {Laurent Lessard and Sanjay Lall},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control},
  title = {{Reduction of decentralized control problems to tractable representations}},
  year = 2009,
  month = dec,
  pages = {1621-1626},
  doi = {10.1109/CDC.2009.5400415},
  keywords = {conference, tract},
}

% THESIS

@phdthesis{lessard_thesis,
  author = {Laurent Lessard},
  title = {{Tractability of complex control systems}},
  school = {Stanford University},
  year = 2011,
  note = {{\url{http://purl.stanford.edu/zb422mz8715}}},
  keywords = {thesis},
}