publications

Grouped by publication type, each group listed in reverse chronological order (numbers count up from my earliest work in that category, so the most recent entry carries the highest number). For an up-to-date list, please see my google scholar page.

Journal Articles, Book Chapters & Theses

  1. Talebi, S., & Li, N. (2026). Ergodic-Risk Criterion for Stochastically Stabilizing Policy Optimization. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 64(3), 2001–2025. https://doi.org/10.1137/25M1733276
  2. Talebi, S., & Mesbahi, M. (2024). Policy Optimization Over Submanifolds for Linearly Constrained Feedback Synthesis. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 69(5), 3024–3039. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2023.3306384
  3. Alemzadeh, S., Talebi, S., & Mesbahi, M. (2024). Data-Driven Structured Policy Iteration for Homogeneous Distributed Systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 69(9), 5979–5994. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2024.3366038
  4. Talebi, S., Zheng, Y., Kraisler, S., Li, N., & Mesbahi, M. (2024). Policy Optimization in Control: Geometry and Algorithmic Implications. In Encyclopedia of Systems and Control Engineering. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.04243
  5. Talebi, S., & Sepulchre, R. (2023). Shahriar Talebi [PhDs in Control]. IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 43(6), 128–167. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCS.2023.3310372
  6. Talebi, S. (2023). Constrained Policy Synthesis: Riemannian Flows, Online Regulation, and Distributed Games [PhD thesis, University of Washington]. https://search.proquest.com/openview/93b112462b67959040252b4b35d321f9/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y
  7. Talebi, S., Alemzadeh, S., Rahimi, N., & Mesbahi, M. (2022). On Regularizability and Its Application to Online Control of Unstable LTI Systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 67(12), 6413–6428. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2021.3131148
  8. Talebi, S. (2017). An All-Against-One Game Approach for the Multi-Player Pursuit-Evasion Problem [Master's thesis, University of Central Florida]. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/5933/

Preprints and Under Review

  1. Park, S., Zhang, F., Mirzasoleiman, B., Talebi, S., & Sehatbakhsh, N. (2026). Your Model Already Knows: Attention-Guided Safety Filter for Vision-Language-Action Models. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.09749
  2. Talebi, S., Simaan, M. A., & Qu, Z. (2019). All-Against-One Linear-Quadratic Differential Games. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1902.10292

Conference Proceedings

  1. Rostami, M., Talebi, S., & Kia, S. S. (2026, December). Scalar Federated Learning for Linear Quadratic Regulator. 2026 65nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.05088
  2. Bier, L., & Talebi, S. (2026, December). Learning Kalman Policy for Singular Unknown Covariances via Riemannian Regularization. 2026 65nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.05071
  3. Nitschke, P., & Talebi, S. (2026). Hereditary Geometric Meta-RL: Nonlocal Generalization via Task Symmetries. 2026 American Control Conference (ACC). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.00396
  4. Hu, Y., Talebi, S., & Li, N. (2025). Risk-Sensitive Affine Control Synthesis for Stationary LTI Systems. 2025 American Control Conference (ACC), 4363–4368. https://doi.org/10.23919/ACC63710.2025.11107942
  5. Talebi, S., & Li, N. (2025). Ergodic-Risk Constrained Policy Optimization: The Linear Quadratic Case. 2025 American Control Conference (ACC), 4391–4396. https://doi.org/10.23919/ACC63710.2025.11107570
  6. Zhang, Y., Talebi, S., & Li, N. (2024). Learning Low-dimensional Latent Dynamics from High-dimensional Observations: Non-asymptotics and Lower Bounds. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 235, 59851–59896. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.06089
  7. Talebi, S., Taghvaei, A., & Mesbahi, M. (2023). Data-driven Optimal Filtering for Linear Systems with Unknown Noise Covariances. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 36, 69546–69585. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.17836
  8. Kraisler, S., Talebi, S., & Mesbahi, M. (2023). Consensus on Lie Groups for the Riemannian Center of Mass. 2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 4461–4466. https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC49753.2023.10384031
  9. Kraisler, S., Talebi, S., & Mesbahi, M. (2023). Distributed Consensus on Manifolds using the Riemannian Center of Mass. 2023 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), 130–135. https://doi.org/10.1109/CCTA54093.2023.10253227
  10. Talebi, S., Taghvaei, A., & Mesbahi, M. (2023). Duality-Based Stochastic Policy Optimization for Estimation with Unknown Noise Covariances. 2023 American Control Conference (ACC), 622–627. https://doi.org/10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10155989
  11. Deole, A., Talebi, S., Kraisler, S., Rahimi, N., Mesbahi, M., Bandyopadhyay, S., Gehlot, V. P., Seto, W., Rahmani, A., & Becktor, J. (2023). Multi-Agent Passivity-based Control for Perception-based Guidance. AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, 2156. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-2156
  12. Bandyopadhyay, S., Gehlot, V. P., Seto, W., Rahmani, A., Kraisler, S., Talebi, S., Deole, A., Rahimi, N., Mesbahi, M., & Becktor, J. (2023). Vision-based Distributed Pose Estimation using a Spacecraft Constellation. AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, 2506. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-2506
  13. Talebi, S., & Mesbahi, M. (2022). Riemannian Constrained Policy Optimization via Geometric Stability Certificates. 2022 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 1472–1478. https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC51059.2022.9992877
  14. Becktor, J., Seto, W., Deole, A., Bandyopadhyay, S., Rahimi, N., Talebi, S., Mesbahi, M., & Rahmani, A. (2022, March). Robust Vision-based Multi-spacecraft Guidance Navigation and Control using CNN-based Pose Estimation. 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference. https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO53065.2022.9843396
  15. Rahimi, N., Talebi, S., Mesbahi, M., & others. (2022). Robust Controller Synthesis for Vision-based Spacecraft Guidance and Control. AIAA SciTech 2022 Forum, 2213. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-2213
  16. Yu, Y., Talebi, S., van Waarde, H. J., Topcu, U., Mesbahi, M., & Açıkmeşe, B. (2021). On Controllability and Persistency of Excitation in Data-Driven Control: Extensions of Willems’ Fundamental Lemma. 2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 6485–6490. https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9682952
  17. Talebi, S., Alemzadeh, S., & Mesbahi, M. (2021). Distributed Model-Free Policy Iteration for Networks of Homogeneous Systems. 2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 6970–6975. https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9683331
  18. Talebi, S., Alemzadeh, S., Rahimi, N., & Mesbahi, M. (2020). Online Regulation of Unstable Linear Systems from a Single Trajectory. 2020 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 4784–4789. https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC42340.2020.9304196
  19. Alemzadeh, S., Talebiyan, H., Talebi, S., Dueñas-Osorio, L., & Mesbahi, M. (2020). Resource Allocation for Infrastructure Resilience using Artificial Neural Networks. 2020 32nd IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), 617–624. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTAI50040.2020.00100
  20. Talebi, S., Alemzadeh, S., Ratliff, L. J., & Mesbahi, M. (2019). Distributed Learning in Network Games: A Dual Averaging Approach. 2019 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 5544–5549. https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC40024.2019.9030002
  21. Talebi, S., Simaan, M. A., & Qu, Z. (2019). Cooperative Design of Systems of Systems Against Attack on One Subsystem. 2019 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 7313–7318. https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC40024.2019.9029565
  22. Talebi, S., Simaan, M. A., & Qu, Z. (2019). Decision-Making in Complex Dynamical Systems of Systems With One Opposing Subsystem. 2019 18th European Control Conference (ECC), 2789–2795. https://doi.org/10.23919/ECC.2019.8796292
  23. Talebi, S., & Simaan, M. A. (2018). SIMPE: A Simulation Platform for Multi-Player Pursuit-Evasion Problems. 2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on Control And Automation (ICCA), 344–349. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCA.2018.8444258
  24. Talebi, S., Simaan, M. A., & Qu, Z. (2017). Cooperative, Non-Cooperative and Greedy Pursuers Strategies in Multi-Player Pursuit-Evasion Games. 2017 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), 2049–2056. https://doi.org/10.1109/CCTA.2017.8062755
  25. Talebi, S., & Simaan, M. A. (2017). Multi-Pursuer Pursuit-Evasion Games Under Parameters Uncertainty: A Monte Carlo Approach. 2017 12th System of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2017.7994937