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Publications

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Preprints

S2Act: Simple Spiking Actor

Ugur Akcal, Seung Hyun Kim, Mikihisa Yuasa, Hamid Osooli, Jiarui Sun, Ribhav Sahu, Mattia Gazzola, Huy T. Tran, Girish Chowdhary

arXiv, 2026

Intrinsic Reward Policy Optimization for Sparse-Reward Environments

Minjae Cho, Huy T. Tran

arXiv, 2026

Contraction Actor-Critic: Contraction Metric-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Robust Path Tracking

Minjae Cho, Hiroyasu Tsukamoto, Huy T. Tran

arXiv, 2025


2026

SF-ODNav: Successor Feature Framework for Map-less Target-Driven Outdoor Visual Navigation

Junzhe Wu, Jiaming Zhang, Tingrong Zhang, Ruining Tao, Huy T. Tran, Girish Chowdhary

2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026

Zero-Shot Coordination in Ad Hoc Teams with Generalized Policy Improvement and Difference Rewards

Rupal Nigam, Niket Parikh, Hamid Osooli, Mikihisa Yuasa, Jacob Heglund, Huy T. Tran

Proc. Of the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026), 2026

Context-Aware Inefficiency of Self-Interested Agents in UAV Wildfire Fighting

Niket Parikh, Rupal Nigam, Max Z. Li, Huy T. Tran

AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, 2026

Neuro-Symbolic Generation of Explanations for Robot Policies with Weighted Signal Temporal Logic

Mikihisa Yuasa, Ramavarapu S. Sreenivas, Huy T. Tran

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2026

Survey of Inverse Reinforcement Learning in Aviation and Future Outlooks

Rupal Nigam, Jimin Choi, Niket Parikh, Max Z Li, Huy T Tran

AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, 2026


2025

Pathfinders in the Sky: Formal Decision-Making Models for Collaborative Air Traffic Control in Convective Weather

Jimin Choi, Kartikeya Anand, Husni R. Idris, Huy T. Tran, Max Z. Li

2025 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2025

A Survey of Current Applications of Inverse Reinforcement Learning in Aviation and Future Outlooks

Rupal Nigam, Jimin Choi, Niket Parikh, Max Z. Li, Huy T. Tran

AIAA SciTech 2025 Forum, 2025

Inefficiency of Self-Interested Behaviour in Markov Games: State-Dependent Price of Anarchy

Niket Parikh, Rupal Nigam, Max Z. Li, Huy T. Tran

AIAA SciTech 2025 Forum, 2025


2024

On Generating Explanations for Reinforcement Learning Policies: An Empirical Study

Mikihisa Yuasa, Huy T. Tran, Ramavarapu S. Sreenivas

IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2024

Coordination Machines for Minimizing Communication in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Jacob Heglund, Huy T. Tran

RLC 2024 Workshop CoCoMARL, 2024


2022

WayFAST: Traversability Predictive Navigation for Field Robots

Mateus V Gasparino, Arun N Sivakumar, Yixiao Liu, Andres E B Velasquez, Vitor A H Higuti, John Rogers, Huy Tran, Girish Chowdhary

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022

D-AnoGAN: Anomaly Detection in Disconnected Data Manifolds with Generative Adversarial Networks

Walker L Dimon, Nicholas B Chase, Neale Van Stralen, Rupal Nigam, Michael F Lembeck, Huy T Tran

2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2022

Disentangling Successor Features for Coordination in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

Seung Hyun Kim, Neale Van Stralen, Girish Chowdhary, Huy T. Tran

Proc. Of the 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2022), 2022

Feature Specialization and Clustering Improves Hierarchical Sub-task Learning

Neale Van Stralen, Seung Kim, Huy T. Tran, Girish Chowdhary

Proc. Of the Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop (ALA 2022), 2022

A Complex Network Framework for Validated Assessments of Systems of Systems Robustness

Aleksandra Markina-khusid, Ryan B Jacobs, Laura Antul, Lance Cho, Huy T. Tran

IEEE Systems Journal, 2022


2021

Social sensing: Towards social media as a sensor for resilience in power systems and other critical infrastructures

Jacob Heglund, Kenneth M. Hopkinson, Huy T. Tran

Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 2021


2020

Data-driven Analysis of Resilience in Airline Networks

Allen Wong, Sijian Tan, Keshav Ram Chandramouleeswaran, Huy T Tran

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2020

Railway Delay Prediction with Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks

Jacob S W Heglund, Panukorn Taleongpong, Simon Hu, Huy T Tran

2020 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2020

Evaluating Adaptation Performance of Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning

Neale Van Stralen, Seung Hyun Kim, Huy Tran, Girish Chowdhary

2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020

Operational Perspectives into the Resilience of the US Air Transportation Network Against Intelligent Attacks

Karl H Thompson, Huy T Tran

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2020

An Artificial Neural Network Approach to Generating High-Resolution Designs from Low-Resolution Input in Topology Optimization

Nicholas A. Napier, Sai-Aksharah Sriraman, Huy T. Tran, Kai A. James

Journal of Mechanical Design, 2020


2019

Parametric Design of Resilient Complex Networked Systems

Huy T Tran, Jean Charles Domerc, Dimitri N Mavris

IEEE Systems Journal, 2019


2018

Application of a Defender-Attacker-Defender Model to the U.S. Air Transportation Network

Karl H Thompson, Huy T Tran

2018 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST), 2018

Machine Learning Prediction of Airport Delays in the US Air Transportation Network

Keshav Ram Chandramouleeswaran, Huy T Tran

18th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, 2018

Data-driven Resilience Quantification of the US Airline Network

Keshav Ram Chandramouleeswaran, Huy T Tran

2018 Annual IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon), 2018

Toward Scaling Model-Based Engineering for Systems of Systems

Laura Antul, Sean Ricks, Lance Cho, Matt Cotter, Ryan B Jacobs, Aleksandra Markina-Khusid, Janna Kamenetsky, Judith Dahmann, Huy T Tran

2018 IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings, 2018


2017

Designing Resilient System-of-Systems Networks

Huy T Tran, Jean Charles Domercant, Dimitri N Mavris

2017 11th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon), 2017

A framework for the quantitative assessment of performance-based system resilience

Huy T Tran, Michael Balchanos, Jean Charles Domercant, Dimitri N Mavris

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2017


2016

A Network-based Cost Comparison of Resilient and Robust System-of-Systems

Huy T. Tran, Jean Charles Domerçant, Dimitri N. Mavris

Complex Adaptive Systems Conference, 2016


2015

Evaluating the agility of adaptive command and control networks from a cyber complex adaptive systems perspective

H. T. Tran, J. C. Domercant, D. N. Mavris

The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology, 2015

A System-of-Systems Approach for Assessing the Resilience of Reconfigurable Command and Control Networks

Huy T Tran, Jean Charles Domercant, Dimitri N Mavris

AIAA Infotech @ Aerospace, 2015


2014

Metrics-based Analysis and Evaluation Framework for Engineering Resilient Systems

Michael G Balchanos, Jean Charles Domercant, Huy T Tran, Dimitri N Mavris

2014 7th International Symposium on Resilient Control Systems, 2014

Trade-offs Between Command and Control Architectures and Force Capabilities Using Battlespace Awareness

Huy T Tran, Jean Charles Domercant, Dimitri Mavris

19th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, 2014