Quanyan Zhu

11.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
281 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Quanyan Zhu is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Control and Systems Engineering and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Quanyan Zhu has authored 281 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 96 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 62 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Quanyan Zhu's work include Smart Grid Security and Resilience (83 papers), Network Security and Intrusion Detection (61 papers) and Information and Cyber Security (40 papers). Quanyan Zhu is often cited by papers focused on Smart Grid Security and Resilience (83 papers), Network Security and Intrusion Detection (61 papers) and Information and Cyber Security (40 papers). Quanyan Zhu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Quanyan Zhu's co-authors include Tamer Başar, Juntao Chen, Sabita Maharjan, Yan Zhang, Stein Gjessing, Raouf Boutaba, Tao Zhang, Linan Huang, Qi Zhang and Mohammad Hossein Manshaei and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Quanyan Zhu

260 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

Dependable Demand Response Management in the Smart Grid: ... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 2013 2015 200 400 600
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. Dependable Demand Response Management in the Smart Grid: A Stackelberg Game Approach
    2013 600 citations Quanyan Zhu, Tamer Başar et al. profile →
  2. Game theory meets network security and privacy
    2013 449 citations Quanyan Zhu et al. profile →
  3. Game-Theoretic Methods for Robustness, Security, and Resilience of Cyberphysical Control Systems: Games-in-Games Principle for Optimal Cross-Layer Resilient Control Systems
    2015 256 citations Quanyan Zhu, Tamer Başar profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Quanyan Zhu United States 36 2.7k 2.1k 1.6k 1.5k 885 281 5.8k
Tansu Alpcan Australia 40 3.0k 1.1× 1.1k 0.5× 999 0.6× 2.6k 1.7× 654 0.7× 236 5.5k
Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan United States 52 4.0k 1.5× 560 0.3× 2.4k 1.5× 1.9k 1.2× 2.4k 2.7× 214 8.0k
Pascal Van Hentenryck United States 41 2.4k 0.9× 911 0.4× 318 0.2× 1.7k 1.1× 2.2k 2.5× 301 8.2k
Xenofon Koutsoukos United States 37 2.2k 0.8× 1.9k 0.9× 586 0.4× 1.0k 0.7× 1.2k 1.3× 291 5.4k
Dejun Yang United States 35 2.5k 0.9× 1.7k 0.8× 949 0.6× 3.2k 2.1× 1.8k 2.1× 135 7.1k
Chen‐Ching Liu United States 55 1.9k 0.7× 5.9k 2.9× 884 0.5× 7.2k 4.7× 922 1.0× 248 9.9k
Zahir Tari Australia 35 3.0k 1.1× 815 0.4× 1.9k 1.2× 663 0.4× 2.6k 2.9× 284 5.6k
Álvaro A. Cárdenas United States 29 2.4k 0.9× 2.9k 1.4× 962 0.6× 930 0.6× 1.4k 1.6× 128 4.5k
Jianhua Ma Japan 32 2.0k 0.7× 443 0.2× 961 0.6× 723 0.5× 1.5k 1.7× 252 4.5k
Jianwei Huang Hong Kong 50 5.1k 1.9× 743 0.4× 687 0.4× 5.7k 3.7× 1.5k 1.7× 373 10.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Quanyan Zhu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Quanyan Zhu

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhu, Quanyan, et al.. (2025). Revisiting Game-Theoretic Control in Socio-Technical Networks: Emerging Design Frameworks and Contemporary Applications. IEEE Control Systems Letters. 9. 74–89. 2 indexed citations
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Zhu, Quanyan, et al.. (2025). Mitigating moral hazard in insurance contracts using risk preference design. Operations Research Letters. 62. 107322–107322.
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Abdallah, Mustafa, Saurabh Bagchi, Shaunak D. Bopardikar, et al.. (2024). Game Theory in Distributed Systems Security: Foundations, Challenges, and Future Directions. IEEE Security & Privacy. 23(1). 64–74. 1 indexed citations
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Farooq, Junaid, et al.. (2024). Mapping Cyber Threats in the 5G Supply Chain: Landscape, Vulnerabilities, and Risk Management. IEEE Network. 39(1). 251–260. 1 indexed citations
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Rangan, Sundeep, et al.. (2024). Zero-Shot Wireless Indoor Navigation through Physics-Informed Reinforcement Learning. 5111–5118. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Tao, Fan Zuo, Ya-Ting Carolyn Yang, et al.. (2024). Multi-level traffic-responsive tilt camera surveillance through predictive correlated online learning. Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies. 167. 104804–104804. 6 indexed citations
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Huang, Linan, et al.. (2022). ADVERT: An Adaptive and Data-Driven Attention Enhancement Mechanism for Phishing Prevention. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 17. 2585–2597. 13 indexed citations
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Cetinkaya, Ahmet, et al.. (2022). Rolling horizon games of resilient networks with non-uniform horizons. European Journal of Control. 68. 100693–100693. 3 indexed citations
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Cetinkaya, Ahmet, et al.. (2020). Dynamic Resilient Network Games With Applications to Multiagent Consensus. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. 8(1). 246–259. 17 indexed citations
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Kavitha, Veeraruna, et al.. (2020). Controlling Fake News by Collective Tagging: A Branching Process Analysis. IEEE Control Systems Letters. 5(6). 2108–2113. 9 indexed citations
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Huang, Linan & Quanyan Zhu. (2020). Duplicity Games for Deception Design with an Application to Insider Threat Mitigation. arXiv (Cornell University). 17 indexed citations
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Macana, Carlos A., H. R. Pota, Quanyan Zhu, Josep M. Guerrero, & Juan C. Vásquez. (2019). Experiments on a Real-Time Energy Management System for Islanded Prosumer Microgrids. Electronics. 8(9). 925–925. 5 indexed citations
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Huang, Linan, Juntao Chen, & Quanyan Zhu. (2018). Distributed and optimal resilient planning of large-scale interdependent critical infrastructures. Winter Simulation Conference. 1096–1107. 5 indexed citations
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Smidts, Carol, et al.. (2017). Support for reactor operators in case of cyber-security threats. Transactions of the American Nuclear Society. 117. 929–932.
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Zhu, Quanyan & Tamer Başar. (2011). Robust and resilient control design for cyber-physical systems with an application to power systems. 4066–4071. 132 indexed citations
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Zhu, Quanyan & Lacra Pavel. (2007). End-to-end link power control in optical networks using Nash bargaining solution. 10. 2 indexed citations

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