People. Department of Mechanical Engineering at UT Dallas.

JUSTIN RUTHS

jruths@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-3857
Mailstop: ECW 31
Office: ECSW 3.355E
800 West Campbell Rd.
Richardson, TX 75080-3021

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Associate Professor

Education

PhD Systems Science and Applied Mathematics, Washington University in Saint Louis, 2011

MS Electrical Engineering, Washington University in Saint Louis, 2008

MS Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, 2006

BS Physics, Rice University 2004

Research Interests

Safety and security guarantees for dynamical systems; Set-based reachability; Robotics and autonomous driving; Neuroscience; Control methods applied to machine learning

Five Most Recent Journal Publications, Book Chapters, and Books

  • Tanner Kogel, Jonas Wagner, Justin Koeln, Justin Ruths. safeSLAM: Trustworthy Localization via Zonotopic Memory. Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Rio de Janeiro, 2025
  • Justin Chen, Jonah Glunt, Justin Koeln, Herschel .C. Pangborn, Justin Ruths. Lipschitz Constants of Hybrid Zonotope Representations of Feedforward Neural Networks. American Control Conference (ACC), Denver, 2025.
  • Jonas Wagner, Tanner Kogel, Justin Ruths. Set-Based Anomaly Detector and Stealthy Attack Impact Using Constrained Zonotopes. Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2023.
  • Sahand Hadizadeh Kafash, Justin Ruths, Relaxation of the greatest common divisor condition for the controllability of bilinear systems, Automatica, 2023.
  • Navid Hashemi, Justin Ruths. Co-design for Resilience and Performance. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2022.

Major Honors and Awards

  • NSF CAREER Award
  • 2025 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring