Nathaniel Hamilton

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 625 citations indexed

About

Nathaniel Hamilton is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathaniel Hamilton has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 625 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 6 papers in Automotive Engineering and 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Nathaniel Hamilton's work include Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety (5 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (4 papers) and Fault Detection and Control Systems (3 papers). Nathaniel Hamilton is often cited by papers focused on Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety (5 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (4 papers) and Fault Detection and Control Systems (3 papers). Nathaniel Hamilton collaborates with scholars based in United States and France. Nathaniel Hamilton's co-authors include Matt Bunting, Rahul Bhadani, Shumo Cui, Maria Laura Delle Monache, Raphael Stern, Jonathan Sprinkle, Benjamin Seibold, Benedetto Piccoli, Daniel B. Work and Miles Churchill and has published in prestigious journals such as Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies and 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO).

In The Last Decade

Nathaniel Hamilton

14 papers receiving 605 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.

  1. Dissipation of stop-and-go waves via control of autonomous vehicles: Field experiments
    2018 536 citations Raphael Stern, Shumo Cui et al. Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nathaniel Hamilton United States 6 503 357 265 158 88 15 625
B.D. Netten Netherlands 8 392 0.8× 232 0.6× 212 0.8× 138 0.9× 66 0.8× 28 476
Yunpeng Wang China 10 298 0.6× 194 0.5× 95 0.4× 118 0.7× 77 0.9× 31 421
Eugene Vinitsky United States 10 428 0.9× 328 0.9× 133 0.5× 166 1.1× 35 0.4× 23 563
Hongzhuan Zhao China 15 394 0.8× 128 0.4× 200 0.8× 185 1.2× 63 0.7× 34 493
Senlin Cheng China 14 326 0.6× 136 0.4× 178 0.7× 181 1.1× 30 0.3× 34 445
S. Mammar France 10 333 0.7× 171 0.5× 126 0.5× 94 0.6× 30 0.3× 20 418
J M Blosseville France 8 256 0.5× 114 0.3× 160 0.6× 180 1.1× 33 0.4× 37 422
Jiqian Dong United States 10 215 0.4× 228 0.6× 63 0.2× 78 0.5× 73 0.8× 13 407
Yannis Pavlis United States 5 362 0.7× 82 0.2× 310 1.2× 283 1.8× 75 0.9× 8 450
Roozbeh Kianfar Sweden 9 411 0.8× 310 0.9× 123 0.5× 60 0.4× 32 0.4× 14 488

Countries citing papers authored by Nathaniel Hamilton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nathaniel Hamilton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nathaniel Hamilton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nathaniel Hamilton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nathaniel Hamilton 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 Nathaniel Hamilton. Nathaniel Hamilton is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Hobbs, Kerianne L., Sean Phillips, Michelle Simon, et al.. (2025). The Safe Trusted Autonomy for Responsible Space Program. 1–17.
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Hamilton, Nathaniel, et al.. (2024). Investigating the Impact of Choice on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Space Controls. 56–66. 1 indexed citations
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Hamilton, Nathaniel, et al.. (2024). Run Time Assurance for Simultaneous Constraint Satisfaction During Spacecraft Attitude Maneuvering. 1–12. 2 indexed citations
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Musau, Patrick, et al.. (2022). Table of Contents. 5–7. 1 indexed citations
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Hamilton, Nathaniel, Patrick Musau, Diego Manzanas Lopez, & Taylor T. Johnson. (2022). Zero-Shot Policy Transfer in Autonomous Racing: Reinforcement Learning vs Imitation Learning. 11–20. 9 indexed citations
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Ravaioli, U., et al.. (2022). Reinforcement Learning Heuristics for Aerospace Control Systems. 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO). 1–12. 1 indexed citations
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Musau, Patrick, et al.. (2022). On Using Real-Time Reachability for the Safety Assurance of Machine Learning Controllers. 1–10. 6 indexed citations
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Hamilton, Nathaniel, et al.. (2020). Sonic to knuckles: Evaluations on transfer reinforcement learning. 20–20. 5 indexed citations
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Lopez, Diego Manzanas, et al.. (2020). Case Study: Safety Verification of an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle. 189–195. 3 indexed citations
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Wu, Fangyu, Raphael Stern, Shumo Cui, et al.. (2019). Tracking vehicle trajectories and fuel rates in phantom traffic jams: Methodology and data. Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies. 99. 82–109. 50 indexed citations
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Stern, Raphael, Shumo Cui, Maria Laura Delle Monache, et al.. (2018). Dissipation of stop-and-go waves via control of autonomous vehicles: Field experiments. Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies. 89. 205–221. 536 indexed citations breakdown →

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