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% PREPRINTS/SUBMITTED MANUSCRIPTS

@article{hjbcbf,
  author = {Milad Alipour Shahraki and Laurent Lessard},
  journal = {arXiv e-print},
  title = {{Near-optimal constrained feedback control of nonlinear systems via approximate HJB and control barrier functions}},
  year = 2025,
  note = {{\url{http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.16114}}},
  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},
}

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% PUBLISHED JOURNAL ARTICLES

@article{stedu,
  author = {Benjamin Lynch and Umit Coskun and Gregory Kowalski and Laurent Lessard and Yiannis Levendis and Bala Maheswaran and Hameed Metghalchi and Hossein Noorian and Rifat Sipahi and Yustianto Tjiptowidjojo and Yasin Yazicioglu},
  journal = {ASME Open Journal of Engineering},
  title = {{Inclusion of concentrated solar thermal power in Northeastern University's mechanical engineering curriculum}},
  year = 2025,
  month = sep,
  day = 16,
  volume = 4,
  doi = {10.1115/1.4069389},
  keywords = {journal, },
}

@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},
  note = {{\url{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, },
}

@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 and Bas Rokers and Laurent Lessard and Mikhail A. Kats},
  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 = {5612-5617},
  doi = {10.1109/CDC57313.2025.11312865},
  keywords = {conference, estimation},
}

@inproceedings{nagf_neurips,
  author = {Joao V. Cavalcanti and Laurent Lessard and Ashia C. Wilson},
  booktitle = {Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
  title = {{Adaptive acceleration without strong convexity priors or restarts}},
  year = 2025,
  month = dec,
  note = {{\url{https://openreview.net/forum?id=66NXQhMufJ}}},
  keywords = {conference, adapalg},
}

@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 = {10.23919/ACC63710.2025.11108025},
  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,
  note = {{\url{https://openreview.net/forum?id=HF8PmUAaFu}}},
  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,
  note = {{\url{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,
  note = {{\url{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, },
}

@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},
  note = {{\url{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},
  note = {{\url{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, algopt},
}

@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},
  note = {{\url{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},
  note = {{\url{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},
  note = {{\url{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},
  note = {{\url{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},
  note = {{\url{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, decent},
}

@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, },
}

@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},
}