Waseem Abbas

Waseem Abbas serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Management at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas. His academic focus centers on theoretical and applied networked systems research with critical infrastructure applications.

His research program investigates network control systems and cyber-physical systems with emphasis on resilience and robustness against faults and strategic attacks. Key methodologies include graph theory (graph coloring, domination) and game theory applied to distributed control architectures. Primary application domains encompass robotic networks, sensor networks, transportation systems, and power grids where global behavior must emerge from local interactions. Specific contributions address robustness, controllability, optimal resource allocation, energy-efficient scheduling, intrusion detection, coverage problems, and resilient sensor placement.

Analysis of his 2022-2024 publications reveals concentrated innovation in resilient consensus algorithms for Byzantine fault tolerance, structural controllability using zero forcing sets, and robust network design for critical infrastructure. His work increasingly integrates graph neural networks with control theory while maintaining strong theoretical foundations in graph-based security methods, demonstrating consistent advancement in networked system resilience.