Publications

Publications in Review/Preprints

• Pickard, J., Stansbury, C., Chen, C., Surana, A.,  Bloch, A., and Rajapakse, I,  Kronecker Product of Tensors and Hypergraphs,  arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.03875, 2023. 

Journal Publications

1. Surana, A., Gnanasekaran, A., and Sahai, T., An efficient quantum algorithm for simulating polynomial dynamical systems, Quantum Information Processing, 23(3), 1-22.

2. Pickard, J., Chen, C., Salman, R.,  Stansbury, C.,  Kim, S., Surana, A.,  Bloch, A., &  Rajapakse, I,. HAT: Hypergraph analysis toolbox,  PLOS Computational Biology 19, no. 6, 2023. 

3. Surana, A., Lynch. M., Nassar, A., R., Ojard. G., Fisher, B., & Corbin, D., Flaw Detection in Multi-Laser Powder Bed Fusion using In-Situ Coaxial Multi-Spectral Sensing and Deep Learning, ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering,  https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4056540, 2022.

4. Surana, A., Chen, C., & Rajapakse, I., Hypergraph Similarity Measures.,IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering,  DOI: 10.1109/TNSE.2022.3217185, pp. 1-16, 2022 .

5. Lindsly S., Chen C., Dilworth S., Jeyaraja S., Meixner W., Stansbury C., Cicalo A., Beckloff N., Ryan C., Surana A., Wicha M., Muir L,. & Rajapakse I., Deciphering Multi-way Interactions in the Human Genome,  Nature Communications, 13, 5498, 2022. 

6. Chen, C., Surana, A., Bloch, A., & Rajapakse, I., Controllability of Hypergraphs,IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 8, 2, pp. 1646-1657, 2021. 

7. Chen, C., Surana, A., Bloch, A., & Rajapakse, I., Multilinear Control Systems Theory, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 59, 1, pp. 749–776, 2021. 

8. Peters, J., Surana, A., Taylor, G., Turpin, T. & Bullo, F.,  Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Surveillance under Visibility and Dwell-Time Constraints,  ASME Journal of Dynamical Systems, Measurements and Control, 141, 2019.

9. Peters, J., Surana, A., & Bullo, F.,  Simultaneous Scheduling and Routing for Collaborative Human-UAV Surveillance Missions, accepted, Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, 15(10), 2018.

10. Surana, A., Koopman Operator Framework for Time Series Modeling and Analysis, Journal of Nonlinear Sciences, 2017.

11. Peters, J., Wang, S., Surana, A.,  & Bullo, F.,  Cloud-Supported Coverage Control for Persistent Surveillance Missions, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, 2017.

12. Peters, J., Srivastava, V.,  Taylor, G., Surana, A., Eckstein, M., P., & Bullo, F., Human Supervisory control of  robotics teams, Integrating  Cognitive Modeling with Engineering Design, Control System Magazine, 2015.

13. Cummings, L., Bertuccelli, L., Macbeth, J. & Surana, A., Task Versus Vehicle-Based Control Paradigms in Multiple Unmanned Vehicle Supervision by a Single Operator, IEEE Transactions on Human Machine System, 44(3), 2014.

14. Surana, A., Sahai. T., & Banaszuk, A., Iterative Methods for Scalable Uncertainty Quantification in Complex Networks, International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification, 2(4), 2012.

15. Banaszuk, A., Fonoberov, V., Frewen, T., Kobilarov, M., Mathew, G., Mezic, I., Pinto, A., Sahai, T., Sane, H., Speranzon, A., Surana, A., Scalable Approach to Uncertainty Quantification and Robust Design of Interconnected Dynamical Systems, IFAC Annual Reviews of Control, 2011.

16. Unnikrishnan, J., Huang, D., Meyn, S.P., Surana, A. and Veeravalli, V., Universal and Composite Hypothesis Testing via Mismatched Divergence, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2010.

17. Surana, A., Jacobs, G. B., Grunberg, O. & Haller, G., Exact theory of three-dimensional flow separation, Part 2. Fixed unsteady separation, Phys. Fluids 20, 107101, 2008.

18. Surana, A. & Crowdy, D., Vortex dynamics in complex domains on a spherical surface, Journal of Computational Physics 227, 2008, 6058–6070.

19. Surana, A. & Haller, G., Ghost manifolds in slow-fast systems, with applications to fluid flow separation, Physica D 237, 2008, 1507–1529.

20. Crowdy, D. & Surana, A., Contour dynamics in complex domains, J. Fluid Mech. 593, 2007, 235–254.

21. Surana, A., Jacobs, G. B. & Haller, G., Extraction of separation and reattachment surfaces from 3D steady shear flow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal 45(6), June 2007, 1290-1302.

22. Crowdy, D., Surana, A. & Yick, K-Y., The irrotational motion generated by two planar stirrers in inviscid fluid, Phys. Fluids 19, 018103, 2007.

23. Surana, A., Grunberg, O. & Haller, G., Exact theory of three-dimensional flow separation, Part 1. Steady separation, J. Fluid Mech. 564, Oct 2006, 57-103.

24. Surana, A., Kumara, S., Greaves, M. & Nandini, R. U., Supply-chain networks: a complex adaptive systems perspective, International Journal of Production Research 43(20), Oct 2005, 4235 - 4265.

25. Surana, A. & Ray, A., Measure of regular languages for discrete event supervisory control, Demonstratio Mathematica 37(2), Jun 2004, 485-503.

26. Ray, A., Surana, A. & Phoha, S., A language measure for discrete event automata, Applied Mathematics Letters 16, Oct 2003, 985-991.

27. Kumara, S., Ranjan, P., Surana, A. & Narayanan, V., Decision making in logistics: A chaos theory based analysis, CIRP Annals-Manufacturing Technology 52(1), Jan 2003, 381-384.

Conference Publications (Peer Reviewed)

1. Delanovic, Adis, et al., Results of the airlift challenge: a multi-agent AI planning competition, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Multi-Domain Operations Applications V. Vol. 12538. SPIE, 2023. 

2. Gnanasekaran, A.,  Surana, A. and Sahai, T., Efficient Quantum Algorithms for Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamical Systems, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Bellevue, WA, USA, 2023, pp. 66-75, doi: 10.1109/QCE57702.2023.10186.

3. Pickard, J., Surana, A., Bloch, A., & Rajapakse, I., Observability of Hypergraphs,  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2023.

4. Surana, A., & Reddy. K., Guided Policy Search Based Control of a High Dimensional Advanced Manufacturing Process, IEEE CSS Conference on Control Technology and Applications, pp. 1415-1420, 2022.

5. Srivastava, K., & Surana, A., Monte Carlo Tree Search Based Tactical Maneuvering, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Multi-Domain Operations Applications IV. Vol. 12113. SPIE, 2022. 

6. Chen, C., Surana, A., Bloch A., & Rajapakse, I., Multilinear Time Invariant System Theory, SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, 2019.

7. Deza, A., Surana, A., & Eckstein, M. P., Assessment of Faster-RCNN in Man-Machine collaborative search, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019.

8. Taylor, G., Alicia, T., Turpin, T. & Surana, A., Removing the bottleneck: utilizing autonomy to manage multiple UAS sensors from inside a cockpit, Proceedings of SPIE, 2018.

9.  Peters, J., Jahangir, E., Surana, A., & Mian, Z., Multi-level Framework for Synthesis and Evaluation of Heterogeneous System-of-Systems Composed of Manned and Unmanned Vehicles, Aerospace Systems and Technology Conference, 2018.

10. El Chamie, M.,Lore, J. G., Manikanthan, S., Surana, A., , Physics-Based Features for Anomaly Detection in Power Grids with Micro-PMU, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2018.

11. Surana, A., Williams, M., Morari, M., & Banaszuk, A., Koopman Operator Framework for Constrained State Estimation, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2017.

12. Taylor, G., Alicia, T., Turpin, T. & Surana, A., Controlling Multiple Unmanned Aircraft from a Manned Helicopter: The Need for Advanced Autonomy and Refined Pilot-Vehicle Interface, HFES, 2017.

13. Sahai, T., Mathew, G., & Surana, A., A Chaotic Dynamical System that Paints, 20th IFAC World Congress, 2017.

14. Deza, A., Peters, J., Taylor, G., Surana, A. & Eckstein, M. P., Attention Allocation Aid for Visual Search,  CHI, 2017.

15. Surana, A., Koopman Operator Based Observer Synthesis for Control-Affine Nonlinear Systems,  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2016.

16. Surana, A., Patterson, G. & Rajapakse, I., Dynamic tensor time series modeling and analysis,  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2016.

17. Mezic, I., & Surana, A., Koopman Mode Decomposition for Periodic/Quasi-periodic Time Dependence, 10th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, 2016.

18. Surana, A. & Banaszuk. A., Linear observer synthesis for nonlinear systems using Koopman Operator framework,  10th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, 2016.

19. Surana, A., Koopman Operator Based Nonlinear Dynamic Textures, American Control Conference, 2015.

20. Niedfeldt, P., Speranzon, A. & Surana, A., Distributed SLAM in Large Environments with Sporadic Updates, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2015.

21. Surana, A. & Srivastava, K., Bayesian Nonparametric Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Switched Markov Decision Processes, International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2014.

22. Surana, A., Unsupervised Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Noisy Data, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2014.

23. Nakhmani, A., Surana, A. & Tannenbaum, A., Macroscopic Analysis of Crowd Motion in Video Sequences, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2014.

24. Georgescu, R., Zhang, S., Surana, A., Speranzon, A., & Erdinc, O., Spectral Multiscale Coverage with the Feature Aided CPHD Tracker, 48th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2014.

25. Georgescu, R., Niedfeldt, P., Zhang, S., Surana, A., Speranzon, A., & Erdinc, O., The CPHD and R-RANSAC tracker applied to the VIVID dataset, Proc. SPIE 9092, Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, 2014.

26. Ding, X., Englot, B., Pinto, A., Speranzon, A. & Surana, A., Hierarchical Multi-objective Planning: From Mission Specifications to Contingency Management, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014.

27. Surana, A., Nakhmani, A. & Tannenbaum, A., Anomaly detection in videos: A dynamical systems approach, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2013.

28. Mathew, G., Kannan, S., Surana, A., Bajekal, S. & Reddy, K., Experimental validation of Spectral Multiscale Coverage and Search,  Proceedings of AIAA GNC, 2013.

29. Trcka, N. & Surana, A., Planning with Process Algebraic Constraints: Application to Multi-Vehicle Routing Problem, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013.

30. Ding, X., Pinto, A. & Surana, A., Strategic Planning under Uncertainties via Constrained Markov Decision Processes, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013.

31. Mathew, G., & Surana, A., A Static Coverage Algorithm for Locational Optimization, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2012.

32. Macbeth, J., Cummings, M., Bertuccelli, L. & Surana, A., Generating Requirements for Automation-Aided Supervision of Multiple Unmanned Vehicles, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Conference, 2012.

33. Bertuccelli, L. & Surana, A., Multi vehicle coordination for persistent target tracking under exposure tradeoffs, IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Aerial Systems, 2012.

34. Surana, A., Mathew, G. & Kannan, S., Coverage Control of Mobile Sensors for Adaptive Search of Unknown Number of Targets, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2012.

35. Srivastava, V., Surana, A., & Bullo, F., Adaptive attention allocation in human robot systems, American Control Conference, 2012.

36. Surana, A., Taylor, R., Narayanan, S. & Otto, K., Rapid Assessment of Deep Retrofit System Solutions to Improve Energy Efficiency in DoD Installations and Buildings, International High Performance Buildings Conference at Purdue, 2012.

37. Meyn, S. & Surana, A., TD-Learning with Exploration, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2011.

38. Ahuja, S., Surana, A., & Cliff, E. M., Reduced-order models for control of building indoor environment, American Control Conference, 2011.

39. Surana, A., & Pinto, A., Analysis of Stochastic Automata Networks using Copula Functions,  Proceedings of Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2010.

40. Mathew, G., Surana, A., & Mezic, I., Uniform Coverage Control of Mobile Sensor Networks for Dynamic Target Detection, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2010.

41. Surana, A., & Banaszuk, A., Scalable uncertainty quantification in complex networks, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2010.

42. Surana, A., Frewen T. A., Banaszuk, A., Sane, H. & Narayanan, S., Motion Planning of UAV Assets to Identify Threats in Uncertain Urban Environment, Special Operations Forces Industry Conference, 2009.

43. Erickson,V.,  Lin, Y.,  Kamthe, A., Brahme, R., Surana, A., Cerpa, A.,  Sohn M. D., & Narayanan, S., Energy Efficient Building Environment Control Strategies Using Real-time Occupancy Measurements,  BuildSys, 2009.

44. Huang, D., Unnikrishnan, J., Meyn, S. P., Veeravalli, V., & Surana, A., Statistical SVMs for robust detection, supervised learning, and universal classification, Proceedings of the Information Theory Workshop on Networking & Information Theory, 2009.

45. Meyn, S.,Surana, A., Lin, Y. & Narayanan, S., Anomaly Detection Using Mori-Zwanzig-Shannon Markov Models in a Distributed Sensor Network, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2009.

46. Meyn, S., Surana, A., Lin, Y., Oggianu, M. S., Narayanan, S. & Fedchenia, I., Sensor-Utility-Network Method for Estimating Occupancy in Buildings, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2009.

47. Borggaard, J., Burns, J. A., Surana, A., & Zietsman, L., Control, Estimation and Optimization of Energy Efficient Buildings, American Control Conference, 2009.

48. Surana, A., Hariharan, N., Naraynan, S. & Banaszuk, A.,  Reduced order modeling for contaminant transport and mixing in building systems: A case study using dynamical systems techniques, American Control Conference, 2008.

49. Jacobs, G. B.,Surana, A., Peacock, T., & Haller, G., Identification of Flow Separation in Three and Four Dimensions, 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, 2007.

50. Surana, A., Kumara, S., Gautam, N. & Greaves, M., Designing a network infrastructure for survivability of multi-agent systems, IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks, 2005.

51. Surana, A., Ray, A. & Chin, S., Anomaly detection in complex systems, 5th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Process, 2003.

52. Surana, A. & Ray, A., Signed real measure of regular languages, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2003.

53. Hong, Y., Gautam, N., Kumara, S.R.T., Surana, A., Gupta, H., Lee, S., Narayanan, V., Thadakamalla, H., Brinn, M. & Greaves, M., Survivability of Complex System-Support Vector Machine Based Approach, Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks, 2002.

54. Lee, S., Gautam, N., Kumara, S., Hong, Y., Gupta, H., Surana, A., Narayanan, V., Thadakamalla, H., Brinn, M. & Greaves, M., Situation Identification Using Dynamic Parameters in Complex Agent-Based Planning Systems, Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks, 2002.

Book Chapters

1. Surana, A., Reinforcement Learning, An Industrial Perspective,  Handbook of Reinforcement Learning and Control, edited by Vamvoudakis, K. G., Wan, Y., Lewis, F. L., & Cansever, D. , Springer International Publishing, 2021.

2. Surana, A., Koopman Framework for Nonlinear Estimation,The Koopman Operator in Systems and Control. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, edited by Mauroy A., Mezić I., Susuki Y. , vol 484. Springer, Cham. 2020.

3. Huang, D., Chen, W., Mehta, P., Meyn, S. & Surana, A., Feature Selection for Neuro-Dynamic Programming, in Reinforcement Learning and Approximate Dynamic Programming for Feedback Control, IEEE Press Series on Computational Intelligence, edited by Lewis, F. L & Derong, L., 2012.

Miscellaneous

1. Ding, J., Chevva, K. R., Surana, A., Shapiro, G., and Kodzwa, K., Enabling High-Level Task-Driven Collaborative Autonomy to Reduce Operator Workload,  Phalanx, 55, 1, MORS, pp. 46-51, 2022.

2. Chen C., Surana, A., Bloch, A. & Rajapakse, I., Data Driven Model Reduction for Multilinear Control System via Tensor Train, arXiv preprint, arXiv: 1912.03569, 2019.

3. Peters, J., Bertuccelli, L., & Surana, A., Eye-tracking Usability Analysis of a Task-Based Mission, Supervisory Control Interface, arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.01976, 2015.

Patents

1. Blakeslee, B. A., Stramandinoli, F., Surana, A., El Chamie, M.,  &  Erdinc, O.,  System and method for inspecting a component for anomalous regions,  U.S. Patent Application 17/744,223, submitted 2022. 

2. Calfa, B.A., Israelsen, B., Pearson, M., Surana, A., & Srivastava, K., Inadvertent operations in touchless lavatory,  U.S. Patent Application 17/727,625, submitted 2022. 

3. Ding, J., Ojard, G.C., Surana, A. &  Erdinc, O., System and method for automated indication confirmation in ultrasonic testing. U.S. Patent Application 17/352,963, submitted 2021. 

4. Calfa, B.A., El Chamie, M., Surana, A. & Erdinc, O.,  Automated scan data quality assessment in ultrasonic testing. U.S. Patent Application 17/352,957, submitted 2021. 

5. Chamie, E., Surana, A., Schulze, C., Elkfrawy, A., Brantley, M.L. & Erdinc, O.,  System and method for dual pulse-echo sub-surface detection. U.S. Patent Application 17/352,964, submitted 2021. 

6. Surana, A., Koushik, S., and Homma, K., System and method for structural vibration mode identification,  U.S. Patent Application 17/217,427, filed October 6, submitted 2021. 

7. Finn, A., Surana, A., Williams, M., Bernal, E.  & Erdinc, O., Nondestructive Inspection using Dual Pulse-echo Ultrasonics and Method, US15/971,270, issued 2021.

8. Giering, M., Reddy, K., Venugopalan, V., Surana, A. & Soumalya, S., Control Systems Using Deep Reinforcement Learning, US15/797,035, issued 2021.

9. Mathew, G., Srivastava, K., Surana, A. & Bopardikar, S., Coverage Optimization for Sensor Networks,  US15/326,541, issued 2021.

10.  Smith, F., Antoni, A., Banerjee, A., Rucco, M.,  Surana, A., Zhu, H., Methods and systems for defining mission profiles for a new engine, Patent application, status pending, submitted 2020.

11. Bennett, M., Hiheglo, E., Runkle, R.,  Surana, A., & Morganson, D., Powder bed fusion monitoring, Patent application  US16/893,790, status pending, submitted 2020.

12. Finn, A., Surana, A., Williams, M., Bernal, E.  & Erdinc, O., System and Method for Automated Part Inspection Using Thermoacoustic Imagery, US15/971,254, issued 2019.

13. Mathew, G., Surana, A. & Bertuccelli, L., Location and Directional Sensor Control for Search, 002415-US, issued 2019.

14. Surana, A. & Runkle, R., System and Methods for Compression and Recovery of Data in Additive Manufacturing Applications, Patent Application 105503US01, status pending, submitted 2018.

15. Leonardi, F., Bertuccelli, L. & Surana, A., Optimization of Human Supervisors and Cyber-Physical Systems, 24014-US; 67036-757PUS1, issued 2018.

16. Surana, A., Banaszuk, A., Beale, R. & Davis, M., System and method for load-based structural health monitoring of a dynamical system, Patent Application 80754US01, status pending, submitted 2015.

17. Meyn, S., Lin, Y., Oggianu, M. S., Surana, A., & Fedchenia, I., System and method for occupancy estimation and monitoring, Patent Application 20110213588-US, status pending, submitted 2008.

Thesis

• Nonlinear Dynamics of 3D Fluid Flow Separation, PhD Thesis in Mechanical Engineering, MIT 2007.

• Dynamics of Traveling Wave Solution for FitzHugh-Nagumo Equation, M.A. Paper in Mathematics, PSU 2003.

• Language Measure for Discrete Event Control, MS Thesis in Mechanical Engineering, PSU, 2002.

• Motion Estimation from Monocular Sequence of Images, B. Tech Thesis in Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay, 2000.