Journals:

1. Stabilizing a Linear System Using Phone Calls: When Time Is Information [@IEEE Xplore]

   M. J. Khojasteh, M. Franceschetti, G. Ranade

   IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, 2026.




2. Importance Sampling With Stochastic Particle Flow and Diffusion Optimization [@IEEE Xplore]

   W. Zhang, M. J. Khojasteh, N. Atanasov, F. Meyer

   IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2025.




3. ISR: Invertible Symbolic Regression [@arXiv]

   T. Tohme*, M. J. Khojasteh*, M. Sadr, F. Meyer, K. Youcef-Toumi

   submitted, 2024.




4. Model-Predictive Quantum Control via Hamiltonian Learning [@IEEE Xplore]

   M. Clouatre, M. J. Khojasteh, Moe Z. Win

   IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering, 2022.




5. The Many Facets of Information in Networked Estimation and Control [@annualreviews]

   M. Franceschetti, M. J. Khojasteh, Moe Z. Win

   Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, 2022.




6. Location Secrecy Enhancement in Adversarial Networks via Trajectory Control [@IEEE Xplore]

   M. J. Khojasteh, A. A. Saucan, Z. Liu, A. Conti, M. Z. Win

   IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2022.




7. Control Barriers in Bayesian Learning of System Dynamics [@IEEE Xplore]

   V. Dhiman*, M. J. Khojasteh*, M. Franceschetti, N. Atanasov

   IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2021.

   See also the website




8. Learning-Based Attacks in Cyber-Physical Systems [@IEEE Xplore]

   M. J. Khojasteh, A. Khina, M. Franceschetti, T. Javidi

   IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2021.




9. Exploiting Timing Information in Event-Triggered Stabilization of Linear Systems with Disturbances [@IEEE Xplore]

   M. J. Khojasteh, M. Hedayatpour, J. Cortes, M. Franceschetti

   IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2021.




10. The Value of Timing Information in Event-Triggered Control [@IEEE Xplore]

    M. J. Khojasteh, P. Tallapragada, J. Cortes, M. Franceschetti

    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2020.




11. Distance-Aware Error for Spline Networks: A Bottom-Up Approach to Uncertainty

    M. Ataei, M. J. Khojasteh, V. Dhiman

    submitted.




12. Worst-Case Distance-Aware Error Bounds for Neural Networks

    M. Ataei, V. Dhiman, M. J. Khojasteh

    submitted.




13. ADS-C: Antidistillation Sampling for Classification

    Kh. A. Ullah, M. J. Khojasteh

    submitted.




14. VINA: Variational Invertible Neural Architectures

    S. Shekhar*,M. J. Khojasteh*, A. Acharya, T. Tohme, K. Youcef-Toumi

    submitted.

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Book Chapters:

1. Information Flow in Event-Based Stabilization of Cyber-Physical Systems [@Springer]

   M. Franceschetti, M. J. Khojasteh, Moe Z. Win

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Conferences:

1. Engagement-Aware Agentic Pursuit-Evasion

   A. Acharya, T. Goyette, M. Ataei, A. Stoica, V. Dhiman, M. J. Khojasteh

   
   

2. Draining Fictitious Knots: Restoring Distance-Awareness Guarantees for High-Dimensional Spline Networks

   M. Ataei, M. J. Khojasteh, V. Dhiman

   
   

3. How Do Large Language Models Judge Social Attraction? Evidence from Theory-Grounded Persona Ratings Across Multiple LLMs and Humans

   H. Mahmud, Kh. A. Ullah, M. J. Khojasteh, J. Heard, P. David

   
   

4. When Robots Rate Their Own Interactions: Engagement Validity and the Strangeness Failure

   V. Lockwood, H. Mahmud, M. J. Khojasteh, P. David, J. Heard

   
   

5. K-DAREK: Distance Aware Error for Kurkova Kolmogorov Networks [@IEEE Xplore]

   M. Ataei, V. Dhiman, M. J. Khojasteh

   Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2025.

   
   

6. DAREK-Distance Aware Error for Kolmogorov Networks [@IEEE Xplore]

   M. Ataei, M. J. Khojasteh, V. Dhiman

   2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025).

   
   

7. Particle Flows for Localizing Sources in 3-D Based on TDOA Measurements [@IEEE Xplore]

   W. Zhang, M. J. Khojasteh, F. Meyer

   2024 International Conference on Information Fusion.

   
   

8. Node Deployment under Position Uncertainty for Network Localization [@IEEE Xplore]

   M. J. Khojasteh, A. A. Saucan, Z. Liu, A. Conti, M. Z. Win

   2022 International Conference on Communications (ICC 2022).

   
   

9. Uncertainty-Aware Safe Exploratory Planning Using Gaussian Process and Neural Control Contraction Metric [@PMLR]

   Dawei Sun, M. J. Khojasteh, Shubhanshu Shekhar, Chuchu Fan

   3rd Annual Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC 2021).

   See also a video

   
   

10. Learning-Based Attacks in Cyber-Physical Systems: Exploration, Detection, and Control Cost Trade-offs [@PMLR]

    A. Rangi*, M. J. Khojasteh*, M. Franceschetti

    3rd Annual Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC 2021).




11. Safe Multi-Agent Interaction through Robust Control Barrier Functions with Learned Uncertainties [@IEEE Xplore]

    R. Cheng, M. J. Khojasteh, A. D. Ames, J. W. Burdick

    59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2020).

    See also the codes and a video.




12. Probabilistic Safety Constraints for Learned High Relative Degree System Dynamics [@PMLR]

    M. J. Khojasteh*, V. Dhiman*, M. Franceschetti, N. Atanasov

    2nd Annual Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC 2020).




13. Theory and Implementation of Event-Triggered Stabilization over Digital Channels [@IEEE Xplore]

    M. J. Khojasteh*, M. Hedayatpour*, M. Franceschetti

    58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2019).

    See also a more complete version and the video.




14. Authentication of Cyber-Physical Systems under Learning-Based Attacks [@ScienceDirect]

    M. J. Khojasteh, A. Khina, M. Franceschetti, T. Javidi

    8th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems (NecSys 2019).




15. Stabilizing a Linear System Using Phone Calls [@IEEE Xplore]

    M. J. Khojasteh , M. Franceschetti, G. Ranade

    2019 European Control Conference (ECC 2019).




16. Event-Triggering Stabilization of Complex Linear Systems with Disturbances over Digital Channels [@IEEE Xplore]

    M. J. Khojasteh , M. Hedayatpour, J. Cortes, M. Franceschetti

    57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2018).




17. Estimating a Linear Process Using Phone Calls [@IEEE Xplore]

    M. J. Khojasteh , M. Franceschetti, G. Ranade

    57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2018).




18. Event-Triggered Stabilization of Disturbed Linear Systems over Digital Channels [@IEEE Xplore]

    M. J. Khojasteh, M. Hedayatpour, J. Cortes, M. Franceschetti

    52th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2018).




19. Time-Triggering versus Event-Triggering Control over Communication Channels [@IEEE Xplore]

    M. J. Khojasteh, P. Tallapragada, J. Cortes, M. Franceschetti

    56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2017).




20. The Value of Timing Information in Event-Triggered Control: The Scalar Case [@IEEE Xplore]

    M. J. Khojasteh, P. Tallapragada, J. Cortes, M. Franceschetti

    54th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, IEEE, 2016.




21. Circulant Matrix Representation of PN-Sequences with Ideal Autocorrelation Property [@IEEE Xplore]

    M. J. Khojasteh, M. H. Shoreh, J. A. Salehi

    Iran Workshop on Communication and Information Theory (IWCIT), IEEE, 2015.




22. Cognitive-EnginedSpectrum-Fragmented Synchronous MC-CDMA Based on Generalized Hadamard Codes [@IEEE Xplore]

    M. H. Shoreh, M. J. Khojasteh, O. Poursaeed, J. A. Salehi

    Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Workshops (WCNCW), IEEE, 2015.

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* These authors contributed equally to the work