Sean Meyn

19.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
250 papers, 11.4k citations indexed

About

Sean Meyn is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean Meyn has authored 250 papers receiving a total of 11.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 76 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 59 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Sean Meyn's work include Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis (45 papers), Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods (45 papers) and Smart Grid Energy Management (42 papers). Sean Meyn is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis (45 papers), Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods (45 papers) and Smart Grid Energy Management (42 papers). Sean Meyn collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and India. Sean Meyn's co-authors include Richard L. Tweedie, Peter W. Glynn, Prashant G. Mehta, Prabir Barooah, Vivek S. Borkar, Ioannis Kontoyiannis, Douglas G. Down, Yashen Lin, P. R. Kumar and J. G. Dai and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and Automatica.

In The Last Decade

Sean Meyn

239 papers receiving 10.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Markov Chains and Stochastic Stability

1993 3.2k citations Sean Meyn et al. profile →
Markov Chains and Stochastic Stability

2009 961 citations Sean Meyn et al. profile →
Stability of Markovian processes III: Foster–Lyapunov criteria for continuous-time processes

1993 569 citations Sean Meyn et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sean Meyn United States	45	3.1k	2.7k	2.2k	2.0k	2.0k	250	11.4k
Peter W. Glynn United States	52	2.7k 0.9×	1.2k 0.4×	1.5k 0.7×	653 0.3×	1.7k 0.9×	349	11.0k
Harold J. Kushner United States	43	1.2k 0.4×	1.5k 0.6×	2.8k 1.3×	2.5k 1.2×	2.3k 1.1×	216	11.6k
Arkadi Nemirovski United States	47	1.9k 0.6×	3.7k 1.4×	2.5k 1.2×	5.8k 2.8×	1.9k 1.0×	123	20.8k
Vivek S. Borkar India	37	773 0.2×	1.2k 0.5×	1.7k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	2.0k 1.0×	259	6.6k
Barry C. Arnold United States	35	4.9k 1.6×	1.1k 0.4×	1.9k 0.9×	284 0.1×	1.0k 0.5×	244	11.1k
C. C. Heyde Australia	32	2.4k 0.8×	580 0.2×	1.0k 0.5×	289 0.1×	879 0.4×	187	8.0k
Søren Asmussen Denmark	45	2.6k 0.9×	752 0.3×	935 0.4×	184 0.1×	1.2k 0.6×	171	9.6k
Herbert Robbins United States	35	2.9k 0.9×	1.0k 0.4×	5.0k 2.2×	781 0.4×	2.2k 1.1×	108	12.6k
Dirk P. Kroese Australia	33	1.0k 0.3×	1.3k 0.5×	1.9k 0.9×	688 0.3×	799 0.4×	125	9.7k
Patrick Billingsley United States	23	3.3k 1.1×	493 0.2×	1.7k 0.8×	573 0.3×	805 0.4×	42	11.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Sean Meyn

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sean Meyn

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean Meyn

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All Works

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Bretas, Arturo S., et al.. (2025). Proactive Frequency Stability Scheme Based on Bayesian Filters and Spectral Clustering. IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy. 12. 100–110. 1 indexed citations

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Meyn, Sean, et al.. (2025). Markovian Foundations for Quasi-Stochastic Approximation. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. 63(1). 402–430. 1 indexed citations

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Meyn, Sean, et al.. (2025). Coherency-Constrained Spectral Clustering for Power Network Reduction. IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy. 12. 88–99. 1 indexed citations

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Meyn, Sean. (2024). The Projected Bellman Equation in Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 69(12). 8323–8337. 10 indexed citations

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Bretas, Arturo S., et al.. (2024). Tri-Level Linear Programming Model for Automatic Load Shedding Using Spectral Clustering. 1–5. 1 indexed citations

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Bušić, Ana, et al.. (2023). Load-Level Control Design for Demand Dispatch With Heterogeneous Flexible Loads. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 31(4). 1830–1843. 6 indexed citations

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Meyn, Sean, et al.. (2023). Quasi-Stochastic Approximation: Design Principles With Applications to Extremum Seeking Control. IEEE Control Systems. 43(5). 111–136. 3 indexed citations

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Bretas, Arturo S., et al.. (2023). Anomaly Detection in Power System State Estimation: Review and New Directions. Energies. 16(18). 6678–6678. 4 indexed citations

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Bušić, Ana, et al.. (2023). Kullback–Leibler-Quadratic Optimal Control. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. 61(5). 3234–3258.

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Meyn, Sean, et al.. (2023). State-Space Collapse in Resource Allocation for Demand Dispatch and Its Implications for Distributed Control Design. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 68(12). 7616–7628. 2 indexed citations

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Barooah, Prabir, et al.. (2022). Aggregate Flexibility Capacity of TCLs With Cycling Constraints. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 38(1). 52–62. 19 indexed citations

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Meyn, Sean, et al.. (2021). Q-Learning With Uniformly Bounded Variance. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 67(11). 5948–5963. 4 indexed citations

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Chen, Yue, Ana Bušić, & Sean Meyn. (2017). Estimation and Control of Quality of Service in Demand Dispatch. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. 9(5). 5348–5356. 8 indexed citations

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Meyn, Sean, et al.. (2017). Zap Q-Learning. Neural Information Processing Systems. 30. 2235–2244. 13 indexed citations

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Kontoyiannis, Ioannis & Sean Meyn. (2016). Approximating a diffusion by a finite-state hidden Markov model. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 127(8). 2482–2507. 1 indexed citations

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Hao, He, Anupama Kowli, Yashen Lin, Prabir Barooah, & Sean Meyn. (2013). Ancillary service for the grid via control of commercial building HVAC systems. 467–472. 76 indexed citations

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Meyn, Sean, et al.. (2012). Generalized Error Exponents for Sparse Sample Goodness of Fit Tests. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Lin, Che, Venugopal V. Veeravalli, & Sean Meyn. (2008). Distributed Beamforming with Feedback: Convergence Analysis. arXiv (Cornell University). 5 indexed citations

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Meyn, Sean, et al.. (2008). Piecewise linear dynamic programming for constrained POMDPs. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 291–296. 26 indexed citations

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Fort, Gersende, Sean Meyn, Éric Moulines, & Pierre Priouret. (2006). ODE methods for skip-free Markov chain stability with applications to MCMC. arXiv (Cornell University). 5 indexed citations

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