Mukai Zhang

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

Early career · publishing since 2019

Smart Grid Security and Resilience Fault Detection and Control Systems Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems Network Time Synchronization Technologies Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems

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Active years

Publishing since 2019

Research summary

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Mukai Zhang works on control engineering, focusing on how to detect and correct errors or malicious interference in networked and computer-controlled systems (called cyber-physical systems). This includes designing mathematical tools ('observers' and 'estimators') that let a system infer hidden internal states and identify unexpected or corrupted signals, such as those caused by sensor faults, dropped data packets, or deliberate tampering. The work is largely theoretical, aimed at making automated control systems more secure and reliable.

Cyber-physical systems securityState and disturbance estimationFault and attack detection in control systemsNetworked control systemsDiscrete-time and nonlinear system theory

Publication output rose to a peak around 2020-2021 and has since continued at a lower, fairly steady pace of about one paper per year.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.0/year recently

Recent publications

Compensator Synthesis for Unsecured Cyber-Physical Systems
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2022
Simultaneous Estimation of the State, Unknown Input, and Output Disturbance in Discrete-Time Linear Systems
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 2021
Unknown Input Observers for Discretized Systems with Application to Networked Systems Corrupted by Sparse Malicious Packet Drops
2021
On the Estimation of Unknown Input and Output Disturbances in Discrete-Time Linear Systems
2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) · 2021
Unknown Input Observers for Discretized Systems With Application to Networked Systems Corrupted by Sparse Malicious Packet Drops
IEEE Control Systems Letters · 2020
State Estimation of Networked Control Systems Corrupted by Unknown Input and Output Sparse Errors
2020
State Observers and Unknown Input Estimators for Discrete-Time Nonlinear Systems Characterized by Incremental Multiplier Matrices
2020
Observer-Based Controller Synthesis for Decentralized Networked Systems
2020 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) · 2020
Vector Recovery for a Linear System Corrupted by Unknown Sparse Error Vectors With Applications to Secure State Estimation
IEEE Control Systems Letters · 2019

Publishes in

IEEE Control Systems Letters×2
SSRN Electronic Journal×2
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control×1
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems×1
International Journal of Control×1

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