Eduardo D. Sontag

50.7k total citations · 16 hit papers
472 papers, 32.3k citations indexed

About

Eduardo D. Sontag is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Molecular Biology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Eduardo D. Sontag has authored 472 papers receiving a total of 32.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 205 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 158 papers in Molecular Biology and 62 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Eduardo D. Sontag's work include Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (134 papers), Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (94 papers) and Control and Stability of Dynamical Systems (86 papers). Eduardo D. Sontag is often cited by papers focused on Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (134 papers), Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (94 papers) and Control and Stability of Dynamical Systems (86 papers). Eduardo D. Sontag collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Eduardo D. Sontag's co-authors include David Angeli, Yüan Wang, Yuan Wang, Hava T. Siegelmann, James E. Ferrell, Yuandan Lin, H.J. Sussmann, Arnold J. Levine, Todd Riley and Patricia Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Eduardo D. Sontag

455 papers receiving 30.4k citations

Hit Papers

Mathematical Control Theo... 1981 2026 1996 2011 1990 1989 2008 1995 1989 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Mathematical Control Theory: Deterministic Finite Dimensional Systems
    1990 2.1k citations Eduardo D. Sontag profile →
  2. Smooth stabilization implies coprime factorization
    1989 2.0k citations Eduardo D. Sontag IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control profile →
  3. Transcriptional control of human p53-regulated genes
    2008 1.5k citations Eduardo D. Sontag et al. profile →
  4. On characterizations of the input-to-state stability property
    1995 1.3k citations Eduardo D. Sontag et al. profile →
  5. A ‘universal’ construction of Artstein's theorem on nonlinear stabilization
    1989 1.0k citations Eduardo D. Sontag profile →
  6. Mathematical Control Theory
    1998 803 citations Eduardo D. Sontag profile →
  7. Detection of multistability, bifurcations, and hysteresis in a large class of biological positive-feedback systems
    2004 720 citations David Angeli, Eduardo D. Sontag et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  8. New characterizations of input-to-state stability
    1996 659 citations Eduardo D. Sontag et al. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control profile →
  9. Comments on integral variants of ISS
    1998 658 citations Eduardo D. Sontag profile →
  10. A Smooth Converse Lyapunov Theorem for Robust Stability
    1996 620 citations Eduardo D. Sontag et al. profile →
  11. A general result on the stabilization of linear systems using bounded controls
    1994 607 citations Eduardo D. Sontag et al. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control profile →
  12. Building a cell cycle oscillator: hysteresis and bistability in the activation of Cdc2
    2003 583 citations Eduardo D. Sontag et al. profile →
  13. Nonlinear regulation: The piecewise linear approach
    1981 576 citations Eduardo D. Sontag IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control profile →
  14. A characterization of integral input-to-state stability
    2000 465 citations David Angeli, Eduardo D. Sontag et al. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control profile →
  15. Asymptotic controllability implies feedback stabilization
    1997 394 citations Eduardo D. Sontag et al. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control profile →
  16. A universal formula for stabilization with bounded controls
    1991 356 citations Eduardo D. Sontag et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Eduardo D. Sontag United States 77 18.7k 7.6k 4.0k 3.3k 2.7k 472 32.3k
John C. Doyle United States 73 23.9k 1.3× 4.4k 0.6× 5.5k 1.4× 3.9k 1.2× 1.7k 0.6× 327 41.1k
Richard M. Murray United States 91 21.4k 1.1× 4.3k 0.6× 25.7k 6.5× 3.2k 1.0× 4.7k 1.7× 580 52.8k
Bart De Moor Belgium 74 9.0k 0.5× 4.1k 0.5× 823 0.2× 2.1k 0.6× 7.0k 2.6× 641 30.8k
Michael A. Saunders United States 51 2.3k 0.1× 2.9k 0.4× 934 0.2× 3.6k 1.1× 2.0k 0.7× 133 25.9k
Frank Allgöwer Germany 62 12.2k 0.7× 1.7k 0.2× 3.6k 0.9× 1.0k 0.3× 695 0.3× 688 17.0k
Jean-Jacques Slotine United States 47 18.9k 1.0× 1.6k 0.2× 5.0k 1.2× 1.5k 0.5× 3.3k 1.2× 177 29.1k
Charles R. Johnson United States 40 4.4k 0.2× 1.4k 0.2× 8.0k 2.0× 9.7k 2.9× 4.0k 1.5× 443 32.5k
Lennart Ljung Sweden 72 24.7k 1.3× 835 0.1× 1.7k 0.4× 1.3k 0.4× 8.2k 3.0× 509 38.3k
Jinhu Lü China 76 4.0k 0.2× 2.4k 0.3× 16.7k 4.2× 1.4k 0.4× 2.5k 0.9× 621 27.8k
Yang Tang China 66 4.7k 0.2× 1.1k 0.1× 7.9k 2.0× 1000 0.3× 2.5k 0.9× 373 14.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sontag, Eduardo D., et al.. (2024). Pattern Formation and Bistability in a Synthetic Intercellular Genetic Toggle. ACS Synthetic Biology. 13(9). 2844–2860.
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Al-Radhawi, M. Ali, Shubham Tripathi, Yun Zhang, Eduardo D. Sontag, & Herbert Levine. (2022). Epigenetic factor competition reshapes the EMT landscape. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(42). e2210844119–e2210844119. 8 indexed citations
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Krüger, Philipp, et al.. (2021). Perfect adaptation of CD8 + T cell responses to constant antigen input over a wide range of affinities is overcome by costimulation. Science Signaling. 14(666). eaay9363–eaay9363. 18 indexed citations
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Tran, Anh Phong, Jerry H. Meldon, & Eduardo D. Sontag. (2021). Transient Diffusion in Bi-Layer Composites With Mass Transfer Resistance: Exact Solution and Time Lag Analysis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2.
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Al-Radhawi, M. Ali, et al.. (2020). A mathematical model exhibiting the effect of DNA methylation on the stability boundary in cell-fate networks. Epigenetics. 16(4). 436–457. 12 indexed citations
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Greene, James M., Jana L. Gevertz, & Eduardo D. Sontag. (2019). Mathematical Approach to Differentiate Spontaneous and Induced Evolution to Drug Resistance During Cancer Treatment. JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics. 3(3). 1–20. 49 indexed citations
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Sontag, Eduardo D., et al.. (2012). Exploring the scale invariance property in enzymatic networks. 5511–5516. 4 indexed citations
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Shoval, Oren, Uri Alon, & Eduardo D. Sontag. (2011). Input symmetry invariance, and applications to biological systems. 2233–2238. 1 indexed citations
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Berman, Piotr, Bhaskar DasGupta, & Eduardo D. Sontag. (2007). Algorithmic Issues in Reverse Engineering of Protein and Gene Networks via the Modular Response Analysis Method. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1115(1). 132–141. 2 indexed citations
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Maass, Wolfgang, Prashant Joshi, & Eduardo D. Sontag. (2005). Principles of real-time computing with feedback applied to cortical microcircuit models. Neural Information Processing Systems. 18. 835–842. 13 indexed citations
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Hespanha, João P., Daniel Liberzon, David Angeli, & Eduardo D. Sontag. (2005). Nonlinear norm-observability notions and stability of switched systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 50(2). 154–168. 247 indexed citations
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Angeli, David & Eduardo D. Sontag. (2002). Multistability in Monotone I/O Systems. 3 indexed citations
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Sontag, Eduardo D.. (2001). REMARKS ON THE PRESERVATION OF VARIOUS CONTROLLABILITY PROPERTIES UNDER SAMPLING. 35(11). 1781–1781. 3 indexed citations
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Liberzon, Daniel, A. Stephen Morse, & Eduardo D. Sontag. (2000). Minimum-phase nonlinear systems: a new definition. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Natschläger, Thomas, Wolfgang Maass, Eduardo D. Sontag, & Anthony M. Zador. (2000). Processing of Time Series by Neural Circuits with Biologically Realistic Synaptic Dynamics. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Institutional Repository (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). 13. 145–151. 2 indexed citations
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Sontag, Eduardo D., et al.. (1996). Detectability Of Nonlinear Systems. 10 indexed citations
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Sontag, Eduardo D., et al.. (1995). Control-lyapunov universal formulas for restricted inputs. 37 indexed citations
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Albertini, Francesca & Eduardo D. Sontag. (1990). Some Connections Between Chaotic Dynamical Systems And Control Systems. 5 indexed citations
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Sontag, Eduardo D. & Héctor J. Sussmann. (1989). Backpropagation Can Give Rise to Spurious Local Minima Even for Networks without Hidden Layers.. Complex Systems. 3. 56 indexed citations
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Sontag, Eduardo D.. (1981). Nonlinear regulation: The piecewise linear approach. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 26(2). 346–358. 576 indexed citations breakdown →

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