John Lygeros

22.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
523 papers, 13.5k citations indexed

About

John Lygeros is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, John Lygeros has authored 523 papers receiving a total of 13.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 233 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 105 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 105 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in John Lygeros's work include Advanced Control Systems Optimization (146 papers), Formal Methods in Verification (63 papers) and Fault Detection and Control Systems (47 papers). John Lygeros is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Control Systems Optimization (146 papers), Formal Methods in Verification (63 papers) and Fault Detection and Control Systems (47 papers). John Lygeros collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. John Lygeros's co-authors include Shankar Sastry, Claire J. Tomlin, Kostas Margellos, Karl Henrik Johansson, D.N. Godbole, Maria Prandini, Tyler Summers, Stamatis Manesis, Maryam Kamgarpour and Sean Summers and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

John Lygeros

502 papers receiving 12.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Dynamical properties of hybrid automata

2003 546 citations John Lygeros, Karl Henrik Johansson et al. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control profile →
A Survey of Applications of Wireless Sensors and Wireless Sensor Networks

2005 539 citations John Lygeros et al. profile →
Controllers for reachability specifications for hybrid systems

1999 446 citations John Lygeros, Shankar Sastry et al. profile →
On Submodularity and Controllability in Complex Dynamical Networks

2015 296 citations John Lygeros et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
John Lygeros	6.3k	2.9k	2.4k	2.1k	1.7k	523	13.5k
Claire J. Tomlin	6.9k 1.1×	1.3k 0.5×	2.0k 0.8×	2.9k 1.4×	5.0k 2.9×	397	14.9k
Okyay Kaynak	10.1k 1.6×	2.3k 0.8×	956 0.4×	2.2k 1.1×	955 0.6×	335	16.6k
Shuai Li	8.4k 1.3×	1.7k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	2.4k 1.2×	1.3k 0.8×	519	18.1k
Frank Allgöwer	12.2k 1.9×	1.6k 0.6×	1.0k 0.4×	3.6k 1.7×	682 0.4×	688	17.0k
Magnus Egerstedt	6.1k 1.0×	1.3k 0.4×	1.7k 0.7×	9.1k 4.4×	1.9k 1.1×	449	15.2k
Shen Yin	14.6k 2.3×	1.8k 0.6×	1.1k 0.4×	2.5k 1.2×	994 0.6×	333	20.0k
Munther A. Dahleh	4.5k 0.7×	1.6k 0.6×	637 0.3×	1.1k 0.6×	943 0.6×	270	8.0k
Han‐Xiong Li	6.9k 1.1×	1.6k 0.6×	1.9k 0.8×	2.2k 1.1×	435 0.3×	403	12.9k
Yuhui Shi	2.5k 0.4×	2.6k 0.9×	3.6k 1.5×	1.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	240	14.7k
Yaonan Wang	4.4k 0.7×	2.5k 0.9×	708 0.3×	1.7k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	882	14.4k

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Li, Yuchao, et al.. (2025). Parallel Model Predictive Control for Deterministic Systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 71(2). 1255–1262.

Peter, Christian, et al.. (2024). Peak shaving with hydrogen energy storage: From stochastic control to experiments on a 4 MWh facility. Applied Energy. 376. 123965–123965. 11 indexed citations

Belgioioso, Giuseppe, Mathias Hudoba de Badyn, Saverio Bolognani, et al.. (2024). Online Feedback Equilibrium Seeking. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 70(1). 203–218. 9 indexed citations

Belgioioso, Giuseppe, et al.. (2024). BIG Hype: Best Intervention in Games via Distributed Hypergradient Descent. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 69(12). 8338–8353. 5 indexed citations

Soloperto, Raffaele, et al.. (2024). Control Strategies for Recommendation Systems in Social Networks. IEEE Control Systems Letters. 8. 634–639. 3 indexed citations

Bünning, Felix, Philipp Heer, Roy S. Smith, & John Lygeros. (2023). Increasing electrical reserve provision in districts by exploiting energy flexibility of buildings with robust model predictive control. Advances in Applied Energy. 10. 100130–100130. 12 indexed citations

Rupenyan, Alisa, et al.. (2023). Drone-based Volume Estimation in Indoor Environments. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 56(2). 5009–5014.

Heer, Philipp, et al.. (2023). Modeling and real-time control of a hydrogen refueling station with uncertain demand. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 56(2). 2695–2700. 2 indexed citations

Belgioioso, Giuseppe, et al.. (2023). Stability and Robustness of Distributed Suboptimal Model Predictive Control. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 56(2). 5115–5120. 3 indexed citations

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Balta, Efe C., et al.. (2023). Layer-to-layer closed-loop feedback control application for inter-layer temperature stabilization in laser powder bed fusion. Additive manufacturing. 78. 103847–103847. 24 indexed citations

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Martin, Andrea E., Luca Furieri, Florian Dörfler, John Lygeros, & Giancarlo Ferrari‐Trecate. (2023). Follow the Clairvoyant: an Imitation Learning Approach to Optimal Control*. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 56(2). 2589–2594. 4 indexed citations

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Tsiamis, Anastasios, et al.. (2023). Implications of Regret on Stability of Linear Dynamical Systems. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 56(2). 2583–2588. 5 indexed citations

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Lygeros, John, et al.. (2023). Wasserstein Tube MPC with Exact Uncertainty Propagation. 2036–2041. 13 indexed citations

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Lygeros, John, et al.. (2023). NCCR Automation in Switzerland [Institutes in Control]. IEEE Control Systems. 43(5). 186–190. 1 indexed citations

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Rapsomaniki, Maria Anna, et al.. (2021). In silico analysis of DNA re-replication across a complete genome reveals cell-to-cell heterogeneity and genome plasticity. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 3(1). lqaa112–lqaa112. 2 indexed citations

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Huang, Linbin, Jeremy Coulson, John Lygeros, & Florian Dörfler. (2019). Data-Driven Wide-Area Control.. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations

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Hokayem, Peter, Eugenio Cinquemani, Debasish Chatterjee, & John Lygeros. (2010). Stochastic MPC with output feedback and bounded control inputs. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Lygeros, John, Konstantinos Koutroumpas, Sotiris Dimopoulos, et al.. (2008). Stochastic hybrid modeling of DNA replication across a complete genome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(34). 12295–12300. 66 indexed citations

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Simić, Slobodan N., Karl Henrik Johansson, John Lygeros, & Shankar Sastry. (2005). Towards a geometric theory of hybrid systems. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 12. 649–687. 32 indexed citations

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Lygeros, John, D.N. Godbole, & Shankar Sastry. (1997). A Design Framework For Hierarchical, Hybrid Control. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 4 indexed citations

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