Rijad Alisic

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)

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

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

Side Projects

• WeighSightAndroid 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 software from my Caltech SURF project 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.

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