Sebin Gracy
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Assistant Professor Email: sebin.gracy@sdsmt DOT edu [Google Scholar] [ResearchGate] [LinkedIn] [CV] |
About Me
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, SD.
Previously, I was a Junior Fellow in the Rice Academy of Fellows at Rice University in Houston, TX. At Rice, I was hosted by César Uribe. Before going to Rice, I was a postdoctoral scholar working with Henrik Sandberg and Karl Henrik Johansson in the Division of Decision and Control Systems at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
I received my Ph.D. in Automatic Control from Université Grenoble Alpes in 2018, under the joint supervision of Alain Kibangou and Federica Garin. Prior to that, I received an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2013.
Research Interests
My research develops mathematical theory for networked dynamical systems, with applications spanning mathematical epidemiology, infrastructure networks, collective behavior, and cyber-physical systems. My work draws on dynamical systems, control theory, network science, and mathematical modelling.
Applications
Public health
Spread of rumors/opinions in social networks
Collective Intelligence
Product adoption in (online) marketplaces
Resilient operation of infrastructure networks
News
[Sept. 2026] Jean Junior Maldini Jiokeng I Toko joins the group to start his PhD. Welcome!
[Sept. 2026] Joint work with YIfan Xu (Rice Univ.), Ji Liu (Stony Brook), Tamer Basar (UIUC), and Cesar A. Uribe (Rice Univ.) on Networked Competitive Bivirus SIS Model - Analysis of the Discrete-Time Case accepted for publication in the IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems.
[July 2026] Joint work with Jesse Wayment (Purdue Univ.), Constantin I Morărescu (Univ. of Lorraine) Vineeth S Varma (CRAN), and Philip E Pare (Purdue Univ.) on Multi-layer Time-Varying SIS Model with an Infrastructure Network accepted for publication in the European Journal of Control.
[July 2026] Joint paper with Saba Samadi (Purdue Univ.), Jose I Caiza (Purdue Univ.), and Philip E Pare (Purdue Univ.) accepted at CDC’26.
[May 2026] Talk - ACC 2026, New Orleans, LA
[May 2026] Talk - School of Mathematical Sciences, Adelaide University, Australia
[May 2026] Awarded a Nelson Research Grant from SD Mines!
[April 2026] Benjamin Catalano successfully defends his MS thesis!
[March 2026] Talk at the INFORMS Optimization Society Conference in Atlanta, GA.
[Jan. 2026] Benjamin Catalano's paper accepted at ACC’26. Congratulations, Ben!
[Dec. 2025] Awarded a travel grant to attend the Dynamics Days US 2026 conference in Tucson, AZ!
[Nov. 2025] Joint paper with Brian Anderson (Australian National Univ.), Mengbin Ye (Univ. of Adelaide) and Cesar Uribe (Rice) on bivirus SIS models with higher-order interactions accepted in IFAC-Automatica!
[Oct. 2025] Elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member!
[May 2025] Talk - EE Dept. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
[May 2025] Talk - EE Dept. Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
[May 2025] Talk - SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Denver, CO.
[April 2025] Joint paper with Ciyuan Zhang (Purdue), Tamer Basar (UIUC) and Philip E. Pare (Purdue) on analysis, state estimation, and control for networked competitive multi-virus SIR models accepted for publication in IFAC-Automatica.
[Feb. 2025] Joint paper with Yuan Wang (Changsha Univ.), Hideaki Ishii (Univ. of Tokyo) and Karl Henrik Johansson (KTH) on suppression of epidemics accepted for publication in the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.
[Nov. 2024] Attended the IPAM workshop on Mathematics of Collective Intelligence at UCLA
[Nov. 2024] Talk - ECE at Stony Brook.
[Sept. 2024] Joint paper with Axel Janson (KTH), Philip E. Pare (Purdue), Henrik Sandberg (KTH), and Karl Henrik Johansson (KTH) on competitive SIS models accepted for publication in Mathematical Biosciences.
[Sept. 2024] Joint paper with Mengbin Ye (Curtin Univ.), Brian Anderson (Australian National Univ.), Axel Janson (KTH), and Karl Henrik Johansson on competitive epidemic networks with multiple survival-of-the-fittest outcomes accepted for publication in Systems and Control Letters.
[July 2024] Joint paper with Philip E. Pare (Purdue), Ji Liu (Stony Brook), Henrik Sandberg (KTH), Carolyn L Beck (UIUC), Karl Henrik Johansson (KTH) and Tamer Basar (UIUC) on coupled SIS models accepted for publication in IFAC-Automatica.
[March 2024] Joint paper with Jose I Caiza (Purdue), Philip E. Pare (Purdue), and Cesar Uribe (Rice) on Multi-competitive time-varying networked SIS model with an infrastructure network accepted for publication in IFAC Journal of Systems and Control.
[Feb. 2024] Joint paper with Ji Liu (Stony Brook), Tamer Basar (UIUC), and Cesar Uribe (Rice) on discrete-time competitive bivirus SIS models accepted at ECC
[Jan. 2024] Joint paper with Brian Anderson (Australian National Univ.), Mengbin Ye (Curtin Univ.), and Cesar Uribe (Rice) on bivirus SIS spread over hypergraphs accepted at ACC
[Jan. 2024] Joint paper with Mengbin Ye (Curtin Univ.), Brian Anderson (Australian National Univ.), and Cesar Uribe (Rice) on Towards understanding the endemic behavior of a competitive tri-virus SIS networked model accepted for publication in SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems.
[Jan. 2024] I start as an Asst. Professor in EECS at SD Mines!
[Nov. 2023] Virtual talk: Matbio Seminar at University of Iowa
[Oct. 2023] Talk - APPM at CU Boulder
Last updated: September 2026