Abhishek Gupta

CONTACT

INFORMATION

360 Coordinated Science Laboratory +1-217-819-6382University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign gupta54@illinois.edu1308 W Main Street publish.illinois.edu/gupta54/

Urbana, IL 61801

RESEARCH

INTERESTS

Theory: Optimization, probability theory, information theory, game theory, decision theory

Applications: Security of cyber-physical systems, multi-user information theory, strategic tradingand auctions, resource allocation games, economic networks

EDUCATION University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, July 2014

• Thesis: Dynamic Sequential Decision Problems with Asymmetric Information: Some ExistenceResults

• Advisor: Prof. Cedric Langbort, Prof. Tamer Basar

M.S., Applied Mathematics, December 2012

M.S., Aerospace Engineering, May 2011

• Thesis: Control in the Presence of an Intelligent Jammer with Limited Actions• Advisor: Prof. Cedric Langbort, Prof. Tamer Basar

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

B.Tech., Aerospace Engineering, April 2009

• Thesis: One-to-one Aerial Combat using Differential Game Theory• Advisor: Prof. K. Sudhakar

AWARDS & HONORS • Kenneth Lee Herrick Memorial Award for outstanding academic and research performancein the Aerospace Engineering department at UIUC 2014

• Certificate in Foundations of Teaching, UIUC, USA Spring 2013

• Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship, UIUC, USA (awarded to twelve graduate students acrossall departments in the College of Engineering at UIUC) 2012-13

• Research Internship in Science and Engineering, Indo-US S&T Forum Summer 2012

• Narotam Sekhsaria Excellence in Undergraduate Award for excellence in academic and extra-curricular activities, India 2009

• Award for Excellence, Aerospace Department, IIT Bombay, India 2008, 2009

• IIT Bombay Heritage Fund Scholarship, IIT Bombay, India 2006-08

• All India Rank – 1 among over two hundred thousands candidates in the National DefenceAcademy entrance exam, India 2004

TEACHING Teaching Assistant for AE 353 (Aerospace Control Systems) in Spring 2013, also delivered anhour long lecture in the class

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RESEARCH

THRUSTS

Dynamic Sequential Decision Theory

Game theory

• Proposed a refinement concept for a class of dynamic linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG)games with asymmetric information, called common information based Markov perfectequilibrium (CIMPE)

• Established the existence and uniqueness of CIMPE in a class of LQG games

• Devised an algorithm to compute CIMPE in LQG games

• Extended the framework to dynamic games with resource constraints

Team Theory

• Established the existence of team-optimal solutions in a large class of static and dynamicsequential teams

• Consequently, proved that a large class of linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) teams withno-observation sharing information structure admits team-optimal solutions

• Proved that several information and control problems admit optimal solutions

• Partially settled a long-standing open question in stochastic control theory

Dynamic Incentive Design

• Established the existence of appropriate incentive scheme in a class of dynamic incentivedesign problems, under which the strategy of the leader is affine in its information

Securities, Options and Auctions in Dynamic Settings

• Studying pricing strategies of securities and options in dynamic settings

• Studying auctions for bundled goods and establishing the existence and computation ofappropriate equilibrium

Probability Theory

Topology of Information on Measure Spaces

• Studied a new topology, called topology of information, on probability measure spacesover a product of two Polish spaces

• Identified sufficient conditions on a sequence of measures to converge in the topology ofinformation

Security of Cyber-Physical Systems

DoS Attacks on Networked Control Systems

• Formulated three novel problems modeling strategic jamming attacks on networked controlsystems as dynamic zero-sum games

• Established the existence of saddle-point equilibrium in all three games

• Proved that under certain assumptions, the controller under jamming attack acts accordingto a threshold based strategy

• Developed a framework for analyzing dynamic cyber-physical attacks under information-and action-constrained players

Resource Allocation (Colonel Blotto) Games

• Formulated a novel non-cooperative cyber-security problem in which multiple institutions,who can be under malicious attack, add dummy entities and share resources in order tosecure themselves

• Identified conditions when institutions add entities and share their resources in order tosecure themselves when playing under Nash equilibrium

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JOURNAL

PUBLICATIONS [J1] A. Gupta, S. Yuksel, T. Basar, and C. Langbort, “On the existence of optimal policies for aclass of static and sequential dynamic teams”, submitted to SIAM Journal on Control andOptimization, April 2014.

[J2] A. Gupta, A. Nayyar, C. Langbort, and T. Basar, “Common information based Markovperfect equilibria for linear-Gaussian games with asymmetric information”, in SIAM Journalon Control and Optimization, July 2014, accepted.

[J3] M. Barbie and A. Gupta, “The topology of information on the space of probability measuresover Polish spaces”, in Journal of Mathematical Economics, Volume 52, pp. 98–111, May2014.

[J4] A. Nayyar, A. Gupta, C. Langbort, and T. Basar, “Common Information based Markovperfect equilibria for stochastic games with asymmetric information: Finite games”, inIEEE Transactions of Automatic Control, Volume 59, pp. 555–570, March 2014.

[J5] A. Gupta, G. Schwartz, C. Langbort, S. Sastry, and T. Basar, “A Three-Stage Colonel Blottogame with applications to cyberphysical security”, Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2014-19, EECS Department, University of California at Berkeley, March 2014.

[J6] S. Bhattacharya, A. Gupta, and T. Basar, “Jamming in mobile networks: A game-theoreticapproach”, in Journal of Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization, Volume 3, Number1, pp. 1-30, 2013.

[J7] A. Sarkar, Abhishek, and U. A. Yajnik, “PeV scale Left-Right symmetry and Baryon asymmetryof the universe”, in Nuclear Physics B, Volume 800, Issue 1-2, pp. 253-269, 2008.

CONFERENCE

PROCEEDINGS [C1] A. Gupta, S. Yuksel, and T. Basar, “On the existence of optimal strategies in dynamicstochastic teams”, in 53rd IEEE Conference in Decision and Control (CDC), December 2014,accepted.

[C2] A. Gupta and T. Basar, “Dynamic incentive design in multi-stage linear-Gaussian gameswith asymmetric information: A common information based approach”, in 53rd IEEEConference in Decision and Control (CDC), December 2014, accepted.

[C3] A. Gupta, T. Basar, and G. Schwartz, “A three-stage Colonel Blotto game: When to providemore information to an adversary”, in Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security(GameSec), November 2014, accepted.

[C4] A. Gupta, G. Schwartz, C. Langbort, S. Sastry, and T. Basar, “A Three-Stage Colonel Blottogame with applications to cyberphysical security”, in Proc. of 2014 American ControlConference (ACC), pp. 3832–3837, June 2014.

[C5] A. Gupta, S. Yuksel, and T. Basar, “On the existence of optimal strategies in multi-agentstochastic teams”, in Proc. of 2014 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 1945–1950,June 2014.

[C6] A. Gupta, A. Nayyar, C. Langbort, and T. Basar, “A dynamic transmitter-jammer game withasymmetric information”, in Proc. of 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC),pp. 6477–6482, December 2012.

[C7] A. Gupta, P. Grover, C. Langbort, and T. Basar, “On myopic strategies in dynamic adversarialteam decision problems”, in Proc. of 46th Annual Conference on Information Sciences andSystems (CISS), pp. 1–6, March 2012.

[C8] A. Gupta, C. Langbort, and T. Basar, “One-stage control over an adversarial channel withfinite codelength”, in Proc. of 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp.4072–4077, December 2011.

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[C9] S. Bhattacharya, A. Gupta, and T. Basar, “Decentralized opportunistic navigation strat-egies for multi-agent systems in the presence of an adversary”, in Proc. of IFAC WorldCongress, vol. 18, pp. 11809–11814, August 2011.

[C10] A. Gupta, S. Bhattacharya, and T. Basar, “Decentralized control of multi-agent system withadversarial switching topology”, in Infotech@Aerospace Conference, AIAA, March 2011.

[C11] A. Gupta, C. Langbort, and T. Basar, “Optimal control in the presence of an intelligentjammer with limited actions”, in Proc. of 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control(CDC), pp. 1096–1101, December 2010.

MANUSCRIPTS IN

PREPARATION [P1] A. Gupta, S. Yuksel, and T. Basar, “Existence of optimal solutions in teams with observationsharing information structures: Part I. Static teams”, in preparation, August 2014.

[P2] A. Gupta, S. Yuksel, and T. Basar, “Existence of optimal solutions in teams with observationsharing information structures: Part II. Dynamic teams”, in preparation, August 2014.

[P3] A. Gupta and T. Basar, “Dynamic games with resource-constrained players and its applicationsto cyberphysical security”, in preparation, August 2014.

INVITED TALKS &POSTERS [IT1] A. Gupta, A. Nayyar, C. Langbort, and T. Basar, “Multi-stage LQG Games and Incentive

Design Problems with Asymmetric Information”, Poster Session, 15th ACM Conference onEconomics and Computation, Palo Alto, USA, June 2014.

[IT2] A. Gupta, “Dynamic Sequential Decision Problems with Asymmetric Information: SomeExistence Results”, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, May 2014.

[IT3] A. Gupta, “Dynamic Games and Teams with Asymmetric Information: Some ExistenceResults”, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA, May 2014.

[IT4] A. Gupta, “Common Information based Markov Perfect Equilibrium in Dynamic LQGGames with Asymmetric Information”, 3rd Midwest Workshop on Control and Game Theory,Columbus, USA, April 2014.

[IT5] A. Gupta, “Teams with Non-classical Information Structures: Some Technical Challenges”,University of California Berkeley, USA, May 2013.

[IT6] A. Gupta, “Optimal Control in the Presence of an Intelligent Jammer with Limited Actions”,2011 National Control Engineering Students Workshop, University of Maryland at CollegePark, USA, April 2011.

PROFESSIONAL

SERVICES• Session Chair for “Decentralized Control” session at 53rd IEEE Conference in Decision and

Control

• Session Chair for “Optimization and Control” session at 2014 American Control Conference

• Served as a reviewer for

• IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

• Automatica

• Discrete Event Dynamic Systems

• International Game Theory Review

• Journal of Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems

• IEEE Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems

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• IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (IEEE-CDC)

• American Control Conference (ACC)

• INFORMS Annual Meeting

• Member of Graduate Student Advisory Committee of Aerospace Engineering at UIUC

• General Chair of the organizing committee of 8th CSL Student Conference, 2013

• Part of organizing committee of 9th CSL Student Conference, 2014

• Volunteered in Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing

GRADUATE

COURSES• Decision & Control: Static and Dynamic Game Theory, Optimal Control Theory, Control

System Theory and Design, Dynamical Systems and Bifurcation Theory• Communication Theory: Random Processes, Information Theory I-II, Coding Theory• Algorithms and Robotics: Randomized Algorithms for Control System Design, Planning

Algorithms, Statistical Machine Learning (Audit)• Optimization: Optimization by Vector Space Methods• Mathematics: Real Analysis, Functional Analysis, Probability Theory I-II, Dynamical Systems,

Differentiable Manifolds, General Topology, Linear Analysis and PDEs, Ergodic Theory (Audit)• Entrepreneurship: Technology Innovation and Strategy

REFERENCES Tamer Basar

Swanlund Endowed Chair Phone: 217-333-3607Electrical and Computer Engineering E-mail: basar1@illinois.eduUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Cedric Langbort

Associate Professor Phone: 217-265-6236Aerospace Engineering E-mail: langbort@illinois.eduUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Serdar Yuksel

Associate Professor Phone: 613-533-2429Applied Mathematics and Statistics Department E-mail: yuksel@mast.queensu.caQueen’s University at Kingston, Canada

Demosthenis Teneketzis

Professor Phone: 734-763-0598Electrical Engineering and Computer Science E-mail: teneket@eecs.umich.eduUniversity of Michigan at Ann-Arbor, USA

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