Lifeng Zhou

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Lifeng Zhou is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Lifeng Zhou has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 15 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 7 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Lifeng Zhou's work include Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (16 papers), Optimization and Search Problems (11 papers) and Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs (6 papers). Lifeng Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (16 papers), Optimization and Search Problems (11 papers) and Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs (6 papers). Lifeng Zhou collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and India. Lifeng Zhou's co-authors include Liu Tai-gang, Keliang Zhou, Pratap Tokekar, Chunguang Li, Pratap Tokekar, Shaoyuan Li, George J. Pappas, Vasileios Tzoumas, Vijay Kumar and Ryan K. Williams and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.

In The Last Decade

Lifeng Zhou

29 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Industry 4.0: Towards future industrial opportunities and... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

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. Industry 4.0: Towards future industrial opportunities and challenges
    2015 783 citations Lifeng Zhou 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
Lifeng Zhou United States 13 531 317 158 157 142 34 1.2k
Hugh Boyes United Kingdom 8 457 0.9× 407 1.3× 112 0.7× 126 0.8× 175 1.2× 20 1.2k
Angelo Sifaleras Greece 17 399 0.8× 176 0.6× 109 0.7× 183 1.2× 81 0.6× 71 954
Qinghua Wu China 21 588 1.1× 252 0.8× 108 0.7× 370 2.4× 72 0.5× 88 1.4k
Radu F. Babiceanu United States 15 660 1.2× 164 0.5× 237 1.5× 97 0.6× 100 0.7× 52 1.2k
Carlos Toro Spain 16 888 1.7× 108 0.3× 223 1.4× 293 1.9× 104 0.7× 58 1.4k
Rainer Drath Germany 15 1.1k 2.1× 192 0.6× 211 1.3× 156 1.0× 236 1.7× 73 1.6k
Burak Ekşioğlu United States 17 757 1.4× 135 0.4× 241 1.5× 142 0.9× 116 0.8× 49 1.4k
Runliang Dou China 20 275 0.5× 124 0.4× 180 1.1× 102 0.6× 125 0.9× 59 1.2k
Carlo Vercellis Italy 19 456 0.9× 146 0.5× 239 1.5× 347 2.2× 273 1.9× 48 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Lifeng Zhou

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lifeng Zhou

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lifeng Zhou

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lifeng Zhou. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lifeng Zhou based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Lifeng Zhou. Lifeng Zhou is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhou, Lifeng, et al.. (2025). Double Oracle Algorithm for Game-Theoretic Robot Allocation on Graphs. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 41. 3244–3259.
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Zhou, Lifeng, et al.. (2025). Query3D: LLM-Powered Open-Vocabulary Scene Segmentation with Language Embedded 3D Gaussians. 961–970. 1 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lifeng, et al.. (2024). Learning Decentralized Flocking Controllers with Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Network. 2596–2602. 1 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lifeng, et al.. (2024). Monte Carlo Tree Search for Behavior Planning in Autonomous Driving. 117–124. 2 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lifeng, et al.. (2023). Spatial Temporal Graph Neural Networks for Decentralized Control of Robot Swarms. VTechWorks (Virginia Tech). 1–4.
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Zhou, Lifeng, et al.. (2023). Robust Multiple-Path Orienteering Problem: Securing Against Adversarial Attacks. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 39(3). 2060–2077. 10 indexed citations
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Mayya, Siddharth, et al.. (2022). Adaptive and Risk-Aware Target Tracking for Robot Teams With Heterogeneous Sensors. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 7(2). 5615–5622. 12 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lifeng & Pratap Tokekar. (2022). Risk-Aware Submodular Optimization for Multirobot Coordination. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 38(5). 3064–3084. 5 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lifeng, et al.. (2021). Communication-Aware Multi-robot Coordination with Submodular Maximization. 8955–8961. 7 indexed citations
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Tokekar, Pratap, et al.. (2020). Robust Multiple-Path Orienteering Problem: Securing Against Adversarial Attacks. 8 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lifeng, Vasileios Tzoumas, George J. Pappas, & Pratap Tokekar. (2020). Distributed Attack-Robust Submodular Maximization for Multi-Robot Planning. 2479–2485. 17 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lifeng, et al.. (2019). Live Demonstration: Real-Time Vi-SLAM With High-Resolution Event Camera. 1707–1708. 2 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lifeng, Vasileios Tzoumas, George J. Pappas, & Pratap Tokekar. (2018). Resilient Active Target Tracking With Multiple Robots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 4(1). 129–136. 58 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lifeng & Pratap Tokekar. (2018). Active Target Tracking With Self-Triggered Communications in Multi-Robot Teams. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 16(3). 1085–1096. 27 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lifeng & Shaoyuan Li. (2016). Distributed model predictive control for multi‐agent flocking via neighbor screening optimization. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. 27(9). 1690–1705. 25 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lifeng & Chunguang Li. (2016). Outsourcing Eigen-Decomposition and Singular Value Decomposition of Large Matrix to a Public Cloud. IEEE Access. 4. 869–879. 50 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lifeng & Shaoyuan Li. (2015). Distributed model predictive control for consensus of sampled‐data multi‐agent systems with double‐integrator dynamics. IET Control Theory and Applications. 9(12). 1774–1780. 24 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lifeng & Shaoyuan Li. (2015). Cooperative control of linear systems with coupled constraints via distributed model predictive control. 39. 7569–7574. 2 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lifeng & Chunguang Li. (2015). Outsourcing Large-Scale Quadratic Programming to a Public Cloud. IEEE Access. 3. 2581–2589. 19 indexed citations

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