Abdullah Al Maruf

Research Interest:

• Control Systems
• Large-Scale Dynamical Networks
• Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems

Educational Background:

• BS in EEE from BUET, Bangladesh
• Ph.D. in ECE from WSU, Pullman, USA

Courses Taught:

• Signals & Systems (EE 3020)
• Probability, Random Variables & Random Processes (EE 3040)
• Control System (EE 3600)
• Applied Control System Design and Simulation (EE 4600)
• Digital Control System (EE 4610)
• Modern Control System (EE 4620)

Publications:

• Abdullah Al Maruf, Luyao Niu, Bhaskar Ramasubramanian, Andrew Clark, and Radha Poovendran. “Risk-Aware Distributed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning”. In 2024 American Control Conference (ACC), 10-12 July 2024. 
• Luyao Niu, Abdullah Al Maruf, Andrew Clark, J. Sukarno Mertoguno, and Radha Poovendran. “A Compositional Resilience Index for Computationally Efficient Safety Analysis of Interconnected Systems”. In 2023 IEEE 62nd Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2023  Dec 13 2023 (pp. 7554-7561). 
• Abdullah Al Maruf, Luyao Niu, Andrew Clark, J. Sukarno Mertoguno, and Radha Poovendran. “A timing-based framework for designing resilient cyber-physical systems under safety constraint,” ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, Vol. 7, No. 3, Article No.: 19, pp 1–25 (2023).
• Abdullah Al Maruf, Luyao Niu, Bhaskar Ramasubramanian, Andrew Clark, and Radha Poovendran. “Learning Dissemination Strategies for External Sources in Opinion Dynamic Models with Cognitive Biases”. In 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023 Aug 19 (pp. 3-11).
• Abdullah Al Maruf, Luyao Niu, Bhaskar Ramasubramanian, Andrew Clark, and Radha Poovendran. “Cognitive bias aware dissemination strategies for opinion dynamics with external information sources”.  In Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2023 May 30 (pp. 2769-2771).
• Abdullah Al Maruf, Luyao Niu, Andrew Clark, J. Sukarno Mertoguno, and Radha Poovendran. “A compositional approach to safety-critical resilient control for systems with coupled dynamics”. In 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2022 Dec 6 (pp. 910-917). 
• Luyao Niu, Abdullah Al Maruf, Andrew Clark, J. Sukarno Mertoguno, and Radha Poovendran. “An analytical framework for control synthesis of cyber-physical systems with safety guarantee”.  In 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2022 Dec 6 (pp. 1533-1540). 
• Arezoo Rajabi, Bhaskar Ramasubramanian, Abdullah Al Maruf, and Radha Poovendran. "Privacy-Preserving Reinforcement Learning Beyond Expectation". In 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2022 Dec 6 (pp. 4706-4713). 
• Abdullah Al Maruf and Sandip Roy. "Observability-blocking control using sparser and regional feedback for network synchronization processes." Automatica 146, 110586 (2022).
• Abdullah Al Maruf, Anamika Dubey, and Sandip Roy. “Small-signal Voltage Stability Analysis for Droop controlled inverter-based microgrids: an algebraic graph theory perspective”. In 2021 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM). 2021 Jul 26 (pp. 01-05). 
• Abdullah Al Maruf and Sandip Roy. “Using Feedback to Block Controllability at Remote Nodes in Network Synchronization Processes”. In 2021 American Control Conference (ACC). 2021 May 25 (pp. 2473-2478). 
• Abdullah Al Maruf and Sandip Roy. “Almost-Surgical Eigenstructure Assignment for Linear Time Invariant Systems Using State Feedback”. In 2021 American Control Conference (ACC). 2021 May 25 (pp. 2479-2484). 
• Abdullah Al Maruf and Sandip Roy. “Pole and Residue Estimation from Impulse Response Data: New Error Bounding Techniques”. In 2020 American Control Conference (ACC). 2020 Jul 1 (pp. 1514-1519). 
• Abdullah Al Maruf and Sandip Roy. “Observability-blocking Controllers for Network Synchronization Processes”. In 2019 American Control Conference (ACC). 2019 Jul 10 (pp. 2066-2071). 
• Abdullah Al Maruf, Mohammad Ostadijafari, Anamika Dubey, and Sandip Roy. “Small-Signal Stability Analysis for Droop-Controlled Inverter-based Microgrids with Losses and Filtering”. In Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy). 2019 Jun 15 (pp. 355-366).
• Abdullah Al Maruf, Soumya Kundu, Enoch Yeung, and Marian Anghel. “Decomposition of Nonlinear Dynamical Networks via Comparison Systems”. In 2018 European Control Conference (ECC). 2018 Jun 12 (pp. 190-196). 
• Abdullah Al Maruf and Sandip Roy. “Tighter lower Bounds on the Error Variance of Pole and Residue Estimates from Impulse Response Data: An Expository Example”. In 2017 IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). 2017 Dec 12 (pp. 965-970). 
• Abdullah Al Maruf and Sandip Roy. “Hammersley-chapman-robbins Lower Bounds on Pole and Residue Estimates from Impulse Response Data”. In 2017 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP). 2017 Nov 14 (pp. 323-327).