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D-Index
67
Citations
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World Ranking
1269
National Ranking
412

Stéphane Lafortune publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stéphane Lafortune sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 326 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Stéphane Lafortune D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stéphane Lafortune sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)

Overview

Stéphane Lafortune is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily intersects the field of Computer Science, with focused contributions across several subfields including Computational Theory and Mathematics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, and Control and Systems Engineering.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Petri Nets in System Modeling
  • Formal Methods in Verification
  • Security and Verification in Computing
  • Distributed systems and fault tolerance
  • Nonlinear Waves and Solitons
  • Nonlinear Photonic Systems
  • Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems

Frequent publication venues for Stéphane Lafortune include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • Automatica
  • Discrete Event Dynamic Systems

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Stéphane Lafortune present work in a variety of high-impact journals. Selected recent publications include:

  • Spectral Instability of Peakons in the b-Family of the Camassa-Holm Equations, 2022, SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
  • Dealing with sensor and actuator deception attacks in supervisory control, 2022, Automatica
  • Optimal supervisory control with mean payoff objectives and under partial observation, 2020, Automatica
  • A general language-based framework for specifying and verifying notions of opacity, 2022, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems
  • Synthesis of Optimal Multiobjective Attack Strategies for Controlled Systems Modeled by Probabilistic Automata, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their work. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Rômulo Meira-Góes
  • Andrew Wintenberg
  • Eunsuk Kang
  • Necmiye Özay
  • Stavros Tripakis

In 2014, Stéphane Lafortune was recognized as a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), indicating a professional acknowledgment within the domain of automatic control.

Best Publications

  • Introduction to Discrete Event Systems

    Christos G. Cassandras;Stephane Lafortune

  • Diagnosability of discrete-event systems

    M. Sampath;R. Sengupta;S. Lafortune;K. Sinnamohideen

  • Failure diagnosis using discrete-event models

    M. Sampath;R. Sengupta;S. Lafortune;K. Sinnamohideen

  • Coordinated Decentralized Protocols for Failure Diagnosisof Discrete Event Systems

    Rami Debouk;Stéphane Lafortune;Demosthenis Teneketzis

  • Polynomial-time verification of diagnosability of partially observed discrete-event systems

    Tae-Sic Yoo;S. Lafortune

  • Active diagnosis of discrete-event systems

    M. Sampath;S. Lafortune;D. Teneketzis

  • Overview of fault diagnosis methods for Discrete Event Systems

    Janan Zaytoon;Stéphane Lafortune

  • A General Architecture for Decentralized Supervisory Control of Discrete-Event Systems

    T.-S. Yoo;Stéphane Lafortune

  • Distributed diagnosis of discrete-event systems using Petri nets

    Sahika Genc;Stéphane Lafortune

  • Limited lookahead policies in supervisory control of discrete event systems

    S.-L. Chung;S. Lafortune;F. Lin

  • Comparative analysis of related notions of opacity in centralized and coordinated architectures

    Yi-Chin Wu;Stéphane Lafortune

  • Coordinated decentralized protocols for failure diagnosis of discrete event systems

    R. Debouk;S. Lafortune;D. Teneketzis

  • Diagnosis of Discrete Event Systems Using Decentralized Architectures

    Yin Wang;Tae-Sic Yoo;Stéphane Lafortune

  • Distributed Diagnosis of Place-Bordered Petri Nets

    S. Genc;S. Lafortune

  • Gadara: dynamic deadlock avoidance for multithreaded programs

    Yin Wang;Terence Kelly;Manjunath Kudlur;Stéphane Lafortune

  • On the history of diagnosability and opacity in discrete event systems

    Stéphane Lafortune;Feng Lin;Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

  • Decentralized supervisory control with communicating controllers

    G. Barrett;S. Lafortune

  • A New Approach for Diagnosability Analysis of Petri Nets Using Verifier Nets

    M. P. Cabasino;A. Giua;S. Lafortune;C. Seatzu

  • A Uniform Approach for Synthesizing Property-Enforcing Supervisors for Partially-Observed Discrete-Event Systems

    Xiang Yin;Stephane Lafortune

  • Detection and mitigation of classes of attacks in supervisory control systems

    Lilian Kawakami Carvalho;Yi-Chin Wu;Yi-Chin Wu;Raymond H. Kwong;Stéphane Lafortune

  • An Optimal Control Theory for Discrete Event Systems

    Raja Sengupta;Stéphane Lafortune

  • Minimal communication in a distributed discrete-event system

    K. Rudie;S. Lafortune;Feng Lin

Frequent Co-Authors

Feng Lin
Feng Lin Wayne State University
Demosthenis Teneketzis
Demosthenis Teneketzis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Raja Sengupta
Raja Sengupta University of California, Berkeley
Scott Mahlke
Scott Mahlke University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Christos G. Cassandras
Christos G. Cassandras Boston University
Stavros Tripakis
Stavros Tripakis Northeastern University
Dawn M. Tilbury
Dawn M. Tilbury University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Alessandro Giua
Alessandro Giua University of Cagliari
Carla Seatzu
Carla Seatzu University of Cagliari
Jason Stanley
Jason Stanley Yale University

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