Ryan K. Williams
Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
99
Citations
863
Est. group size
~2
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
35
Publishing since 1992
Ryan K. Williams's research centers on multi-robot and swarm systems, focusing on how teams of robots can coordinate, sense their environment, and remain resilient when individual robots fail or face limited information (such as restricted fields of view). His work applies distributed control and optimization methods to practical problems like precision agriculture monitoring, search and rescue, and informative path planning. Note that the publication list includes several titles clearly outside this core area (e.g., soil science, philosophy of mind, legal scholarship), which may reflect name overlap with other authors rather than this researcher's own work.
Publication output rose from 2017 to a peak around 2020, then settled into a more moderate and somewhat variable pace through the mid-2020s.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Talk: Automated Synthesis of Instruction-Centric Leakage Contracts
Proceedings of the Microarchitecture Security Conference · 2026
- Void Judgments and "Reasonable Time"
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025
- Predicting USCS soil texture classes utilizing soil spectra and deep learning
Journal of Soils and Sediments · 2024
- Reframing the Mind-Body Picture: Applying Formal Systems to the Relationship of Mind and Matter
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024
- Grounded Computation & Consciousness: A Framework for Exploring Consciousness in Machines & Other Organisms
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024
- A Swarm-Based Distributed Algorithm for Target Encirclement with Application to Monitoring Tasks in Precision Agriculture Scenarios
2023
- Multirobot Field of View Control With Adaptive Decentralization
IEEE Transactions on Robotics · 2022
- Intermittent Deployment for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Forage Perception: Data Synthesis, Prediction, and Planning
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering · 2022
- Distributed Adaptive and Resilient Control of Multi-Robot Systems With Limited Field of View Interactions
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2022
- Context-aware system synthesis, task assignment, and routing
Autonomous Robots · 2022
- Probabilistically Resilient Multi-Robot Informative Path Planning
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022
- A Fast Algorithm for Robust Action Selection in Multi-Agent Systems
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022
- Distributed Resilient Submodular Action Selection in Adversarial Environments
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2021
- Probabilistic Resilience of Dynamic Multi-Robot Systems
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2021
- DeepPaSTL: Spatio-Temporal Deep Learning Methods for Predicting Long-Term Pasture Terrains Using Synthetic Datasets
Agronomy · 2021
- arXiv (Cornell University)×17
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters×7
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics×3
- SSRN Electronic Journal×3
- Autonomous Robots×2
- Ayush Rai
Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Jia Liu
Computer Science · The Ohio State University
- Shaoshuai Mou
Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Gesualdo Scutari
Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Shreyas Sundaram
Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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