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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
109
Citations
44176
World Ranking
113
National Ranking
54

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109
Citations
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George J. Pappas publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where George J. Pappas sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 596 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

George J. Pappas D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where George J. Pappas sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 109 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
  • 2009 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to design and analysis of hybrid control systems

Overview

George J. Pappas is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within computer science and engineering, focusing extensively on topics related to control systems and artificial intelligence.

The scientist has contributed to numerous publications, with recent papers including:

  • Teaching recurrent neural networks to infer global temporal structure from local examples (2021, Nature Machine Intelligence)
  • Encrypted Control for Networked Systems: An Illustrative Introduction and Current Challenges (2021, IEEE Control Systems)
  • Macroscopic resting-state brain dynamics are best described by linear models (2023, Nature Biomedical Engineering)
  • Control for Societal-Scale Challenges: Road Map 2030 (2024, IEEE Control Systems)
  • Models of communication and control for brain networks: distinctions, convergence, and future outlook (2020, Network Neuroscience)

Frequent co-authors working alongside George J. Pappas include:

  • Hamed Hassani (40 joint publications)
  • Lars Lindemann (28 joint publications)
  • Alexander Robey (21 joint publications)
  • Manfred Morari (18 joint publications)
  • Nikolai Matni (18 joint publications)

The scientist often publishes in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 130 publications
  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (9 publications)
  • 2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (9 publications)
  • 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (7 publications)
  • IEEE Control Systems (4 publications)

George J. Pappas's main fields of study are:

  • Computer Science (299 publications)
  • Engineering (145 publications)

Their research within subfields includes:

  • Artificial Intelligence (161 publications)
  • Control and Systems Engineering (91 publications)
  • Computer Networks and Communications (65 publications)
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (32 publications)
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics (29 publications)

Key topics in George J. Pappas's work are:

  • Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning (58 publications)
  • Advanced Control Systems Optimization (50 publications)
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (44 publications)
  • Fault Detection and Control Systems (44 publications)
  • Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (42 publications)
  • Model Reduction and Neural Networks (36 publications)
  • Formal Methods in Verification (34 publications)

Awards received by George J. Pappas include:

  • Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 2017
  • IEEE Fellow, 2009, for contributions to design and analysis of hybrid control systems

Best Publications

  • Flocking in Fixed and Switching Networks

    H.G. Tanner;A. Jadbabaie;G.J. Pappas

  • Conflict resolution for air traffic management: a study in multiagent hybrid systems

    C. Tomlin;G.J. Pappas;S. Sastry

  • Discrete abstractions of hybrid systems

    R. Alur;T.A. Henzinger;G. Lafferriere;G.J. Pappas

  • Stable flocking of mobile agents, part I: fixed topology

    H.G. Tanner;A. Jadbabaie;G.J. Pappas

  • Leader-to-formation stability

    H.G. Tanner;G.J. Pappas;V. Kumar

  • Temporal-Logic-Based Reactive Mission and Motion Planning

    H. Kress-Gazit;G.E. Fainekos;G.J. Pappas

  • ATPC: Adaptive Transmission Power Control for Wireless Sensor Networks

    Shan Lin;Fei Miao;Jingbin Zhang;Gang Zhou

  • Stable flocking of mobile agents part I: dynamic topology

    H.G. Tanner;A. Jadbabaie;G.J. Pappas

  • Analysis and Control of Epidemics: A Survey of Spreading Processes on Complex Networks

    Cameron Nowzari;Victor M. Preciado;George J. Pappas

  • A Framework for Worst-Case and Stochastic Safety Verification Using Barrier Certificates

    S. Prajna;A. Jadbabaie;G.J. Pappas

  • Robustness of temporal logic specifications for continuous-time signals

    Georgios E. Fainekos;George J. Pappas

  • Cooperative air and ground surveillance

    B. Grocholsky;J. Keller;V. Kumar;G. Pappas

  • Approximation Metrics for Discrete and Continuous Systems

    A. Girard;G.J. Pappas

  • Distributed Connectivity Control of Mobile Networks

    M.M. Zavlanos;G.J. Pappas

  • Temporal logic motion planning for dynamic robots

    Georgios E. Fainekos;Antoine Girard;Hadas Kress-Gazit;George J. Pappas

  • Probabilistic data association for semantic SLAM

    Sean L. Bowman;Nikolay Atanasov;Kostas Daniilidis;George J. Pappas

  • Symbolic planning and control of robot motion [Grand Challenges of Robotics]

    C. Belta;A. Bicchi;M. Egerstedt;E. Frazzoli

  • Graph-theoretic connectivity control of mobile robot networks

    M. M. Zavlanos;M. B. Egerstedt;G. J. Pappas

  • Differentially private filtering

    Jerome Le Ny;George J. Pappas

  • Potential Fields for Maintaining Connectivity of Mobile Networks

    M.M. Zavlanos;G.J. Pappas

  • Linear Time Logic Control of Discrete-Time Linear Systems

    P. Tabuada;G.J. Pappas

Frequent Co-Authors

Paulo Tabuada
Paulo Tabuada University of California, Los Angeles
Alejandro Ribeiro
Alejandro Ribeiro University of Pennsylvania
Miroslav Pajic
Miroslav Pajic Duke University
Michael M. Zavlanos
Michael M. Zavlanos Duke University
Shankar Sastry
Shankar Sastry University of California, Berkeley
Insup Lee
Insup Lee University of Pennsylvania
Rajeev Alur
Rajeev Alur University of Pennsylvania
Antoine Girard
Antoine Girard University of Paris-Saclay
Rahul Mangharam
Rahul Mangharam University of Pennsylvania

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