Publications

Honors and Awards

  1. Nature Communications Editor's Highlights – 2022 (top 50 papers in Applied Physics and Mathematics)

  2. 2020 Roberto Tempo Best Paper Award

  3. Best Student Paper Award at the 2019 American Control Conference


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Thematic Deep Dives (Divulgative)

  1. T. Menara, D. Taraborelli, “Where does AI fit in the therapeutics discovery equation?
    ARTIS Ventures Blog, Mar 2023   ·   [online]


Book Chapters

  1. Control for Societal-scale Challenges: Road Map 2030
    Eds. A. M. Annaswamy, K. H. Johansson, and G. J. Pappas
    IEEE Control Systems Society Publication, 2023   ·   [online]


Journal Papers

  1. M. McCreesh, T. Menara, J. Cortes
    Sufficient Conditions for Oscillations in Competitive Linear-Threshold Brain Networks
    IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 7, pp. 2886-2891, Jun 2023   ·   [online] [pdf]

  2. X. He, L. Caciagli, L. Parkes, J. Stiso, T. M. Karrer, J. Z. Kim, Z. Lu, T. Menara, F. Pasqualetti, M. R. Sperling, J. I. Tracy , D. S. Bassett
    Uncovering the biological basis of control energy: Structural and metabolic correlates of energy inefficiency in temporal lobe epilepsy
    Science Advances, vol. 8, no. 45, pp. eabn2293, Nov 2022   ·   [online] [pdf]

  3. T. Menara, G. Baggio, D. S. Bassett, F. Pasqualetti
    Functional Control of Oscillator Networks
    Nature Communications, vol. 13, pp. 4721, Aug. 2022
    Sep. 2022: Editor's Highlights (top 50 papers in Applied Physics and Mathematics)   ·   [online] [pdf]

  4. Y. Qin, T. Menara, S. Ching, S. Oymak, F. Pasqualetti
    Non-Stationary Representation Learning in Sequential Linear Bandits
    IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 41-56, May 2022   ·   [online] [pdf]

  5. T. Menara, Y. Qin, D. S. Bassett, F. Pasqualetti
    Relay Interactions Enable Remote Synchronization in Networks of Phase Oscillators
    IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 500-505, 2022   ·   [online] [pdf]

  6. Y. Qin, T. Menara, D. S. Bassett, F. Pasqualetti
    Phase-Amplitude Couplinging in Neuronal Oscillator Networks
    Physical Review Research, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 023218, 2021   ·   [online] [pdf]

  7. U. Braun, A. Harneit, G. Pergola, T. Menara, A. Schaefer, R. F. Betzel, Z. Zang, J. I. Schweiger, K. Schwarz, J. Chen, G. Blasi, A. Bertolino, D. Durstewitz, F. Pasqualetti, E. Schwarz, A. Meyer-Lindenberg, D. S. Bassett, H. Tost
    Brain network dynamics during working memory are modulated by dopamine and diminished in schizophrenia
    Nature Communications, vol. 12, pp. 3478, Jun 2021 ( On Brain Post )   ·   [online] [pdf]

  8. T. Menara, G. Lisi, F. Pasqualetti, A. Cortese
    Brain Network Dynamics Fingerprints Are Resilient to Data Heterogeneity
    Journal of Neural Engineering, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 026004, Apr 2021   ·   [online] [pdf]

  9. T. Menara, G. Baggio, D. S. Bassett, F. Pasqualetti
    Conditions for Feedback Linearization of Network Systems
    IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 578-583, Jul 2020   ·   [online] [pdf]

  10. T. Menara, G. Baggio, D. S. Bassett, F. Pasqualetti
    Stability Conditions for Cluster Synchronization in Networks of Heterogeneous Kuramoto Oscillators
    IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 302-314, Mar 2020   ·   [online] [pdf]

  11. J. Stiso, A. N. Khambhati, T. Menara, A. E. Kahn, J. M. Stein, S. R. Das, R. Gorniak, J. Tracy, B. Litt, K. A. Davis, F. Pasqualetti, T. Lucas, D. S. Bassett
    White Matter Network Architecture Guides Direct Electrical Stimulation Through Optimal State Transitions
    Cell Reports, vol. 28, no. 10, pp. 2554-2566, Sep 2019 ( On Medium.com )   ·   [online] [pdf]

  12. T. Menara, D. S. Bassett, F. Pasqualetti
    Structural Controllability of Symmetric Networks
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 64, no. 9, pp. 3740-3747, Sep 2019   ·   [online] [pdf]


Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

  1. T. Menara, J. Cortes
    Control Strategies for Neural Populations with Rectified Activation Function
    IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, 2022   ·   [online] [pdf]

  2. Y. Qin, T. Menara, S. Oymak, S. Ching, F. Pasqualetti
    Representation Learning for Context-Dependent Decision-Making
    American Control Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2022   ·   [online] [pdf]

  3. T. Menara, G. Baggio, D. S. Bassett, F. Pasqualetti
    A Framework to Control Functional Connectivity in the Human Brain
    IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, 2019
    [Roberto Tempo Best Paper Award Winner]   ·   [online] [pdf]

  4. T. Menara, G. Baggio, D. S. Bassett, F. Pasqualetti
    Exact and Approximate Stability Conditions for Cluster Synchronization of Kuramoto Oscillators
    American Control Conference, Philadelphia, USA, 2019
    [Best Student Paper Award Winner]   ·   [online] [pdf]

  5. T. Menara, V. Katewa, D. S. Bassett, F. Pasqualetti
    The Structured Controllability Radius of Symmetric (Brain) Networks
    American Control Conference, Milwaukee, USA, 2018   ·   [online] [pdf]

  6. T. Menara, G. Bianchin, M. Innocenti, F. Pasqualetti
    On the Number of Strongly Structurally Controllable Networks
    American Control Conference, Seattle, USA, 2017   ·   [online] [pdf]

  7. M. Laurino, T. Menara, A. Stella, M. Betta, A. Landi
    Procoagulant Control Strategies for the Human Blood Clotting Process
    IEEE Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Milan, Italy, 2015   ·   [online] [pdf]


Peer-Reviewed Workshop Proceedings

  1. Y. Qin, T. Menara, S. Oymak, S. Ching, F. Pasqualetti
    Non-Stationary Representation Learning in Sequential Multi-Armed Bandits
    ICML Workshop on Reinforcement Learning Theory, 2021   ·   [online] [pdf]


Posters

  1. T. Menara, G. Baggio, D. S. Bassett, F. Pasqualetti
    Analysis and Control of Collective Dynamics in Brain Networks of Oscillators”   ·   [E-Poster]
    International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience, Virtual, 2020

  2. T. Menara, G. Baggio, D. S. Bassett, F. Pasqualetti
    From Cluster Synchronization of Oscillators to Functional Connectivity”   ·   [Poster]
    Computational Neuroimaging and Neuroengineering Symposium, University of California Riverside, 2018

  3. T. Menara, Shi Gu, D. S. Bassett, F. Pasqualetti
    On Structural Controllability of Symmetric Brain Networks from One Region”   ·   [Poster]
    Workshop on Neurodynamics and Brain Control Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, 2017

PhD Thesis

  1. T. Menara
    Reverse Engineering Synchronization of Brain Network Dynamics: Controllability Properties and Functional Patterns
    University of California, Riverside, 2021   ·   [online] [pdf]