Francesco Bullo

Full Professor, UC Santa Barbara

Joined

September 2020

Names

Francesco Bullo (Preferred)

Emails

****@engineering.ucsb.edu (Confirmed)

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****@ucsb.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Full Professor

UC Santa Barbara (ucsb.edu)

2004 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

1994 – 1998

Expertise

control theory

,

network systems

,

theoretical neuroscience

Present

contraction theory and its applications

Present

Publications

Detection of Adversarial Intent in Human-AI Teams Using LLMs
Abed K. Musaffar, Ambuj Singh, Francesco Bullo
- HCAIR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Investigating Language Models for Supporting Complex Group Decisions
Sirui Zeng, Kanav Arora, Ming Yin, Xifeng Yan, Francesco Bullo, Ambuj Singh
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Learning to Lie: Adversarial Attacks on Human-AI Teams and LLMs
Abed K. Musaffar, Anand Gokhale, Sirui Zeng, Rasta Tadayon, Xifeng Yan, Ambuj Singh, Francesco Bullo
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
FlowSymm: Physics–Aware, Symmetry–Preserving Graph Attention for Network Flow Completion
Ege Demirci, Francesco Bullo, Ananthram Swami, Ambuj Singh
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
LogicGuard: Improving embodied LLM agents through temporal logic based critics
Anand Gokhale, Vaibhav Srivastava, Francesco Bullo
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Learning to Lie: Reinforcement Learning Attacks Damage Human-AI Teams and Teams of LLMs
Abed K. Musaffar, Anand Gokhale, Sirui Zeng, Rasta Tadayon, Xifeng Yan, Ambuj Singh, Francesco Bullo
- ICLR-25 HAIC Workshop SpotlightCandidate
- Readers: Everyone
Learning Neural Contracting Dynamics: Extended Linearization and Global Guarantees
Sean Jaffe, Alexander Davydov, Deniz Lapsekili, Ambuj Singh, Francesco Bullo
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Retrieving $k$-Nearest Memories with Modern Hopfield Networks
Alexander Davydov, Sean Jaffe, Ambuj Singh, Francesco Bullo
- AMHN23 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Physics-Informed Implicit Representations of Equilibrium Network Flows
Kevin Daly Smith, Francesco Seccamonte, Ananthram Swami, Francesco Bullo
- Published: 31 Oct 2022, Last Modified: 13 Jan 2023
- NeurIPS 2022 Accept
- Readers: Everyone
Robust Implicit Networks via Non-Euclidean Contractions
Saber Jafarpour, Alexander Davydov, Anton Proskurnikov, Francesco Bullo
- Published: 09 Nov 2021, Last Modified: 26 May 2025
- NeurIPS 2021 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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