Publications
Honors and Awards
Nature Communications Editor's Highlights – 2022 (top 50 papers in Applied Physics and Mathematics)
2020 Roberto Tempo Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award at the 2019 American Control Conference
Select Publications
Thematic Deep Dives (Divulgative)
T. Menara, D. Taraborelli, “Where does AI fit in the therapeutics discovery equation?”
ARTIS Ventures Blog, Mar 2023 · [online]
Book Chapters
“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
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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
T. Menara, J. Cortes
“Control Strategies for Neural Populations with Rectified Activation Function”
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, 2022 · [online] [pdf]
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]
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]
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]
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]
T. Menara, G. Bianchin, M. Innocenti, F. Pasqualetti
“On the Number of Strongly Structurally Controllable Networks”
American Control Conference, Seattle, USA, 2017 · [online] [pdf]
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
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
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
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
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