Ashish R. Hota

Working Papers

  1. A. R. Hota, A. Satapathi, U. Maitra, "Bayesian Persuasion for Containing SIS Epidemic with Asymptomatic Infection", Submitted, 2023. [Preprint]
  2. C. H. Leung, A. R. Hota and P. E. Paré, "Online Identification of Time-Varying Systems Using Excitation Sets and Change Point Detection", Submitted, 2024. [Preprint]
  3. A. Satapathi and A. R. Hota, "Game-Theoretic Protection Adoption Against Networked SIS Epidemics", Submitted, 2024. [Preprint]
  4. D. H. Mangalindan, A. R. Hota and V. Srivastava, "On Logit Dynamics for Multiplayer Trust Game", Submitted, 2024.
  5. K. Rahaman, S. Kumari and A. R. Hota, "Distributionally Robust Safe Motion Planning with Contextual Information", Submitted, 2024.
  6. D. Patra and A. R. Hota, "3D Cooperative Pursuit with Guaranteed Enclosure via Robust Model Predictive Control", Submitted, 2024.

Journal Papers

  1. U. Maitra, A. R. Hota and P. E. Paré, "Optimal Bayesian Persuasion for Containing SIS Epidemics," IEEE Control Systems Letters, To appear, 2024. [Preprint]
  2. A. Mallick, A. Mondal, A. R. Hota, D. Kastha and P. Bajpai, "Hybrid Model Predictive Control Framework for Efficient Operation of a Five-port Converter Interfaced DC Microgrid," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, To appear, 2024.
  3. S. Maity, A. Majumdar, R. Roy, A. R. Hota, S. Dey, "Harnessing Machine Learning in Dynamic Thermal Management in Embedded CPU-GPU Platforms," ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, To appear, 2024.
  4. S. Kumari, A. R. Hota, S. Mukhopadhyay, "Data-Driven Robust Optimization for Energy-Aware Safe Motion Planning of Electric Vehicles," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, To appear, 2024.
  5. A. Mallick, A. Mishra, A. R. Hota and P. Bajpai, "Distributed Coordination of Multi-Microgrids in Active Distribution Networks for Provisioning Ancillary Services," IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, pages: 1492 - 1503, 2024. [Preprint]
  6. M. Baranwal, P. Budhraja, V. Raj and A. R. Hota, "Generalized Gradient Flows with Provable Fixed-Time Convergence and Fast Evasion of Non-Degenerate Saddle Points," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 69, no. 2, pages: 2281 - 2293, 2024. [Preprint]
  7. A. Satapathi, N. K. Dhar, A. R. Hota and V. Srivastava, "Coupled Evolutionary Behavioral and Disease Dynamics under Reinfection Risk," IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 11, no. 2, pages: 795 - 807, 2024. [Preprint]
  8. A. R. Hota, U. Maitra, E. Elokda and S. Bolognani, "Learning to mitigate epidemic risks: A dynamic population game approach," Dynamic Games and Applications, vol. 13, pages: 1106 - 1129, 2023.
  9. U. Maitra, A. R. Hota and V. Srivastava, "SIS Epidemic Propagation under Strategic Non-myopic Protection: A Dynamic Population Game Approach," IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 7, pages: 1578-1583, 2023. Presented at CDC 2023.
  10. A. R. Hota, T. Sneh and K. Gupta, "Impacts of Game-Theoretic Activation on Epidemic Spread over Dynamical Networks," SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, vol. 60, no. 2, pages: S92-S118, 2022. [Preprint]
  11. A. R. Hota, J. Godbole and P. E. Paré, "A Closed-Loop Framework for Inference, Prediction and Control of SIR Epidemics on Networks," IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, vol. 8, no. 3, pages: 2262 - 2278, 2021, (Presented at NetEcon 2020). [Preprint]
  12. A. R. Hota and S. Sundaram, "Controlling Human Utilization of Failure-Prone Systems via Taxes," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 66, no. 12, pages: 5772 - 5787, 2021. [Preprint]
  13. A. Cherukuri and A. R. Hota, "Consistency of Distributionally Robust Risk- and Chance-Constrained Optimization under Wasserstein Ambiguity Sets," IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 5, no. 5, pages: 1729 - 1734, 2021 (Presented at ACC 2021).
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  14. B. K. Poolla, A. R. Hota, S. Bolognani, D. Callaway and A. Cherukuri, "Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Look-Ahead Economic Dispatch," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 36, no. 3, pages: 2010 - 2022, 2021. [Preprint]
  15. H. Sreekumaran, A. R. Hota, A. L. Liu, N. A. Uhan, S. Sundaram, "Equilibrium Strategies for Multiple Interdictors on a Common Network," European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 288, no. 2, pages: 523 - 538, 2021. [Preprint]
  16. M. Abdallah, P. Naghizadeh, A. R. Hota, T. Cason, S. Bagchi and Shreyas Sundaram, "Behavioral and Game-Theoretic Security Investments in Interdependent Systems Modeled by Attack Graphs," IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 7, no. 4, pages: 1585 - 1596, 2020. [Preprint]
  17. A. R. Hota and S. Sundaram, "Game-Theoretic Vaccination Against Networked SIS Epidemics and Impacts of Human Decision-Makers," IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 6, no. 4, pages 1461-1472, 2019. [Preprint]
  18. A. R. Hota and S. Sundaram, "Interdependent Security Games on Networks under Behavioral Probability Weighting," IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 5, no. 1, pages 262-273, 2018. [Preprint]
  19. A. R. Hota, S. Garg and S. Sundaram, "Fragility of the Commons under Prospect-Theoretic Risk Attitudes." Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 98, pages 134-165, 2016. [Preprint]
  20. A. R. Hota, H. Honnappa and S. Sundaram, "The Superposition-Traffic Game." ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, vol. 44, no. 3, pages 22-25, 2017. (Extended Abstract, Presented at NetEcon 2016)

Conference Papers

  1. A. Mishra, A. Mallick, A. R. Hota, D. Pullaguram, P. Bajpai, "A Transactive Energy Framework for Real-Time Primary Frequency Support by Active Distribution Networks", 2024 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia, To appear, 2024.
  2. D. Patra, S. Kumari, A. R. Hota, "Model Predictive Control based Target Defense with Attacker Trajectory Prediction," European Control Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 2024.
  3. L. Romao, A. R. Hota and A. Abate, "Distributionally Robust Optimal and Safe Control of Stochastic Systems via Kernel Conditional Mean Embedding." 2023 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore, 2023. [Preprint]
  4. C. H. Leung, W. Ebenzeraj, A. R. Hota and P. E. Paré, "Adaptive Identification of SIS Models." 9th Indian Control Conference (ICC), Visakhapatnam, India, 2023. [Preprint]
  5. A. Navsalkar and A. R. Hota, "Data-Driven Risk-sensitive Model Predictive Control for Safe Navigation in Multi-Robot Systems." 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, England, 2023. [Preprint]
  6. S. Kumari, S. Ghosh, A. R. Hota, and S. Mukhopadhyay, "Energy Consumption of Electric Vehicles: Effect of Lateral Dynamics." 2023 IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Florence, Italy, 2023.
  7. D. Patra, P. Halder, M. Roy, S. Ghosh, A. R. Hota, and S. Mukhopadhyay, "Trajectory Prediction under Sensor Bias Fault in a Tactical Aerial Vehicle." 2023 3rd International Conference on Range Technology (ICORT), Balasore, India, 2023.
  8. A. K. Cherukuri, A. Zolanvari, G. Banjac, and A. R. Hota, "Data-driven distributionally robust optimization over a network via distributed semi-infinite programming." 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Cancun, Mexico, 2022. [Preprint]
  9. S. Maity, R. Roy, A. Majumder, S. Dey, A. R. Hota, "Future aware Dynamic Thermal Management in CPU-GPU Embedded Platforms." 43rd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Houston, USA, 2022.
  10. M. Baranwal, P. Budhraja, K. Garg and A. R. Hota, "Breaking the Convergence Barrier: Optimization via Fixed-Time Convergent Flows." Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Vancouver, Canada, 2022. [Preprint]
  11. A. Satapathi, N. K. Dhar, A. R. Hota, V. Srivastava, "Epidemic Propagation under Evolutionary Behavioral Dynamics: Stability and Bifurcation Analysis." American Control Conference (ACC), 2022. [Preprint]
  12. E. Elokda, S. Bolognani and A. R. Hota, "A Dynamic Population Model of Strategic Interaction and Migration under Epidemic Risk." IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Austin, TX, USA, 2021. [Preprint]
  13. A. Mallick, D. V. Tekumalla, A. R. Hota, P. Bajpai, "Model Predictive Control Based Economic Operation of Grid-connected DC Microgrid System." 9th International Conference on Power Systems, 2021.
  14. A. R. Hota and K. Gupta, "A Generalized SIS Epidemic Model on Temporal Networks with Asymptomatic Carriers and Comments on Decay Ratio." American Control Conference (ACC), New Orleans, LA, USA, 2021. [Preprint]
  15. J. Dietrich, A. R. Hota, and A. Cherukuri, "Data-Driven Regret Minimization in Routing Games under Uncertainty." European Control Conference (ECC), Naples, Italy, 2019.
  16. A. R. Hota, A. Cherukuri and J. Lygeros, "Data-Driven Chance Constrained Optimization under Wasserstein Ambiguity Sets." American Control Conference (ACC), Philiadelphia, PA, USA, 2019. [Preprint]
  17. M. Schuette, A. R. Hota, A. Eichler and J. Lygeros, "Dynamic Mechanism Design for Human-in-the-Loop Control of Building Energy Consumption." American Control Conference (ACC), Philiadelphia, PA, USA, 2019.
  18. M. Abdallah, P. Naghizadeh, A. R. Hota, T. Cason, S. Bagchi and S. Sundaram, "The Impacts of Behavioral Probability Weighting on Security Investments in Interdependent Systems." American Control Conference (ACC), Philiadelphia, PA, USA, 2019.
  19. A. R. Hota and S. Sundaram, "Game-Theoretic Protection Against Networked SIS Epidemics by Human Decision-Makers." 2nd IFAC Conference on Cyber-Physical & Human Systems (CPHS), Miami, FL, USA, 2018.
  20. A. R. Hota and S. Sundaram, "Controlling Human Utilization of Shared Resources Via Taxes." Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2016.
  21. A. R. Hota, A. Clements, S. Sundaram and S. Bagchi, "Optimal and Game-Theoretic Deployment of Security Investments in Interdependent Assets." Proceedings of GameSec, the 7th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, New York City, NY, USA, 2016.
  22. A. R. Hota and S. Sundaram, "Optimal Network Topologies for Mitigating Epidemic and Security Risks." Proceedings of the 54th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Allerton, IL, USA, 2016.
  23. A. R. Hota and S. Sundaram, "Interdependent Security Games under Behavioral Probability Weighting." Proceedings of GameSec, the 6th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, London, England, 2015.
  24. A. R. Hota, S. Garg and S. Sundaram, "Resource Sharing Games with Failures and Heterogeneous Risk Attitudes." Proceedings of the 51st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Allerton, IL, USA, 2013.
  25. B. Doerr, A. R. Hota and T. Koetzing, "Ants Easily Solve Stochastic Shortest Path Problems", 14th ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Philadelphia, PA, 2012.

Book Chapters

  1. A. R. Hota, A. A. Clements, S. Bagchi, S. Sundaram, "A Game-Theoretic Framework for Securing Interdependent Assets in Networks," Game Theory for Security Risk Management – From Theory to Practice, Springer/Birkhauser’s series on "Static & Dynamic Game Theory: Foundations and Applications," pages 157-184, 2018.

Thesis

  1. Impacts of Game-Theoretic and Behavioral Decision-Making on the Robustness and Security of Shared Systems and Networks, Ph.D. thesis, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 2017. (Advisor: Prof. Shreyas Sundaram)
  2. Decentralized control of distributed energy resources in smart grid, M.Tech thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, 2012. (Advisor: Prof. Prabodh Bajpai)