Rijad Alisic

Researcher in Control of Dynamic Systems.

I make automatic control systems compatible with: cybersecurity adversarial learning environments privacy cybersecurity

I'm a Knut and Alice Wallenberg Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT's Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. My research is in automatic control: designing feedback loops for dynamic systems and studying how a system's data reveals its vulnerability to cyber attacks. I'm also the Chair of the LIDS Postdoc Committee, where we host weekly lunch seminars. If you are in the area and would like to meet some of MIT's postdocs or share your research, feel free to reach out.

Outside the lab, I'm chasing local-legend status next to various waterways, reading and writing, and doing projects that make automatic control more publicly accessible beyond academia and industry.

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News

Aug 2026Launched this website.
Aug 2026Speaking at the IFAC 2026 Pre-Congress Workshop: Encrypted Control Workshop and Live Demonstrations, August 23.
Aug 2026"Anomaly Detection with LWE Encrypted Control" conditionally accepted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
Aug 2026Two papers accepted to the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC).

Short CV

Wallenberg Postdoctoral Fellow, CurrentMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
Postdoctoral Researcher, 2025KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Division of Decision and Control Systems
PhD (Lic. 2021), Automatic Control, 2023KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Division of Decision and Control Systems
MSc, Engineering Physics, 2018Lund University. Specialization in Automatic Control.
Visiting ResearcherUniversity of Melbourne (2022), SNU & SeoulTech (2024), Lund University (2024)

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Publications

2026
Goodbye Innovation: Stealthy Destabilizing Sensor Attacks on Feedback Control Systems
J. Porzio, R. Alisic, H. Sandberg
Adversarial AttacksSecurityControl Theory
2026
SEC-Two: Secure Estimation over Two Channels
J. Porzio, A. Kanellopoulos, R. Alisic, G. Dán, H. Sandberg
State EstimationSecurityControl Theory
2026
How Sensor Attacks Transfer Across Lie Groups
R. Alisic, S. Amin
Geometric MethodsAdversarial AttacksSecurity
2025
Anomaly Detection with LWE Encrypted Control
R. Alisic, J. Kim, H. Sandberg
Encrypted ControlSecurityPrivacy
2023
Change Time Estimation Uncertainty in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems with Applications to COVID-19
R. Alisic, P. E. Paré, H. Sandberg
EpidemiologyReal DataControl Theory

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Teaching

Supervisor, MSc Thesis, 2026KTH Royal Institute of Technology. "Cyber-Physical Security in Direct Data-Driven Control Systems."
Supervisor, MSc Thesis, 2026Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Anomaly Detection for GPS Spoofing in Maritime Cyber-Physical Systems: Filter-Based and Deep Learning Methods."
Supervisor, MSc Thesis, 2025KTH Royal Institute of Technology. "Automatic PID Tuning for Wastewater Pump Station: Run Pumps Efficiently With the Press of a Button."
Teaching Assistant, Advanced Control Theory, 2021 & 2022KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Teaching Assistant, Basic Control Theory, 2018–2020KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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Side Projects

WeighSight, 2025Android app on Google Play. An application of RTS (Rauch-Tung-Striebel) smoothing meant to show the everyday value of control theory: teaching the public to see past the process and measurement noise that obscure real trends in their data, applied to simple weight tracking.
F1-10 Test Bed, 2017Autonomous vehicle control Code from my SURF project I did at Caltech during undergrad.
Quadcopter with Artificial Intelligence, 2017Lund University, Projects in Automatic Control. Drone using onboard camera and AI to autonomously follow a person. Won the class's Best Control Engineering award.