Publications and communications of Alessio Franci

Bainier, G., & Franci, A. (2026). Directional excitability in Hilbert spaces. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. doi:10.1109/CDC57313.2025.11312085

Bainier, G., & Franci, A. (2026). Volume-contracting systems are entropy-reducing [Paper presentation]. 45th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Lommel, Belgium.

Mendolia, L., Wen, C., Chicca, E., Indiveri, G., Sepulchre, R., Redouté, J.-M.* , & Franci, A.*. (2025). A Neuromodulable Current-Mode Silicon Neuron for Robust and Adaptive Neuromorphic Systems. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/338205. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2512.01133

Fyon, A., Pavlova, O., Ringlet, S., Franci, A., Mesirca Pietro, Mangoni Matteo, Schaar Nick, Roeper Jochen, Seutin, V.* , Drion, G.* , & Jehasse, K.*. (16 November 2025). Slow pacemaking dynamics from fast activating kinetics in midbrain dopamine neurons [Poster presentation]. Neuroscience 2025, San Diego, United States - California.

Fyon, A., Pavlova, O., Schaar, N., Mesirca, P., Brandoit, J., Ringlet, S., Franci, A., Mangoni, M. E., Roeper, J., Drion, G.* , Seutin, V.* , & Jehasse, K.*. (2025). A fast and tiny current as common generator of slow regular pacemaking in brain and heart. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/338918. doi:10.1101/2025.10.30.685563

Fernandez Lorden, C., Forni Fulvio, Drion, G., Sacré, P., & Franci, A. (18 March 2025). The Neuromorphic Control MATLAB toolbox [Paper presentation]. 44th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands.

Mendolia, L., & Franci, A. (18 March 2025). Designing, tuning and building ultra-low-power neuromodulable mixed-feedback silicon neurons [Paper presentation]. 44th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands.

Zahed Kachaee, F., & Franci, A. (18 March 2025). Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics for Event-Based Intelligent Sensors [Paper presentation]. 44th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands.

Bizyaeva, A., Franci, A., & Ehrich Leonard, N. (2025). Multi-topic belief formation through bifurcations over signed social networks. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. doi:10.1109/TAC.2025.3538979

Bainier, G., Efron, B., & Franci, A. (2025). Competition and timescale separation in calcium-based plasticity [Paper presentation]. Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) 2026, Lisbon, Portugal.

Stordeur, L., & Franci, A. (2025). Application of Non-Negative Matrix factorization for brain electrophysiological data [Paper presentation]. 44th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Netherlands.

Fyon, A., Franci, A., Sacré, P., & Drion, G. (2024). Dimensionality reduction of neuronal degeneracy reveals two interfering physiological mechanisms. PNAS Nexus. doi:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae415

Bayones, L., Zainos, A., Alvarez, M., Romo, R., Franci, A., & Rossi-Pool, R. (16 July 2024). Orthogonality of sensory and contextual categorical dynamics embedded in a continuum of responses from the second somatosensory cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121 (29), 2316765121. doi:10.1073/pnas.2316765121

Mendolia, L.* , Fernandez Lorden, C.* , Forni, F., & Franci, A. (04 June 2024). Embodied neuromodulation for neuromorphic rhythmic control [Poster presentation]. International Conference on Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering, Aachen, Germany.

Xul Belaustegui, I., Ordorica Arango, M., Rossi-Pool, R., Ehrich Leonard, N., & Franci, A. (2024). Sparse dynamic network reconstruction through L1-regularization of a Lyapunov equation. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/320273. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2403.05457

Amorim, G., Bizyaeva, A., Franci, A., & Leonard, N. E. (2024). Spatially-Invariant Opinion Dynamics on the Circle. IEEE Control Systems Letters, 8, 3231 - 3236. doi:10.1109/LCSYS.2024.3523466

Amorim, G., Santos, M., Park, S., Franci, A., & Leonard, N. E. (2024). Threshold Decision-Making Dynamics Adaptive to Physical Constraints and Changing Environment. In 2024 European Control Conference, ECC 2024. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. doi:10.23919/ECC64448.2024.10591177

Belaustegui, I. X., Arango, M. O., Rossi-Pool, R., Leonard, N. E., & Franci, A. (2024). Sparse Dynamic Network Reconstruction Through L1-regularization of a Lyapunov Equation. In 2024 IEEE 63rd Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2024. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. doi:10.1109/CDC56724.2024.10885791

Cathcart, C., Belaustegui, I. X., Franci, A., & Leonard, N. E. (2024). Spiking Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics (S-NOD) for Agile Decision-Making. IEEE Control Systems Letters, 8, 3267 - 3272. doi:10.1109/LCSYS.2024.3523845

Juarez-Alvarez, O., & Franci, A. (2024). Analysis and design of rhythmic neuromorphic networks through dominance and bifurcations. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/320276. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2401.04324

Leonard, N. E., Bizyaeva, A., & Franci, A. (2024). Fast and Flexible Multiagent Decision-Making. Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, 7 (1). doi:10.1146/annurev-control-090523-100059

Miranda-Villatoro, F. A., Castanos, F., & Franci, A. (2024). Equivalence of Linear Complementarity Problems: Theory and Application to Nonsmooth Bifurcations. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1 - 12. doi:10.1109/TAC.2023.3338981

Moreno-Morton, R., Bizyaeva, A., Ehrich Leonard, N., & Franci, A. (2024). Fast-and-Flexible Decision-Making With Modulatory Interactions. IEEE Control Systems Letters, 8, 3333 - 3338. doi:10.1109/LCSYS.2024.3519445

Zendrikov, D., Franci, A., & Indiveri, G. (2024). Waves and Symbols in Neuromorphic Hardware: From Analog Signal Processing to Digital Computing on the Same Computational Substrate. In M. B. Matthews (Ed.), Conference Record of the 58th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2024. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/IEEECONF60004.2024.10943060

Amorim, G., Santos, M., Park, S., Franci, A., & Ehrich Leonard, N. (2023). Threshold Decision-Making Dynamics Adaptive to Physical Constraints and Changing Environment. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/320277. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2312.06395

Mendolia, L., Franci, A., & Redouté, J.-M. (23 August 2023). Networks of low-power CMOS neuromorphic neurons with robust neuromodulation capabilities for intelligent and adaptable neuromorphic systems [Poster presentation]. SCIoI & ISAB Summer School 2023: “Embodied Intelligence – Perception and Learning in Nature and Robotics”, Berlin, Germany.

Bizyaeva, A., Franci, A., & Leonard, N. E. (March 2023). Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics With Tunable Sensitivity. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 68 (3), 1415 - 1430. doi:10.1109/TAC.2022.3159527

Franci, A., Golubitsky, M., Stewart, I., Bizyaeva, A., & Leonard, N. E. (2023). Breaking Indecision in Multiagent, Multioption Dynamics. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 22 (3), 1780 - 1817. doi:10.1137/22M1507826

Fyon, A., Sacré, P., Franci, A., & Drion, G. (2023). Reliable neuromodulation from adaptive control of ion channel expression. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 56 (2), 458-463. doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.1610

Fyon, A., Sacré, P., Franci, A., & Drion, G. (2023). Reliable neuromodulation from adaptive control of ion channel expression [Paper presentation]. IFAC World Congress, Yokohama, Japan.

Juarez-Alvarez, O., & Franci, A. (2023). Circadian rhythmogenesis from neuromodulator- and molecular clock-mediated network mixed feedback. In M. Ishii H.; Ebihara Y.; Imura J.; Yamakita (Ed.), IFAC-PapersOnLine. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.1614

Moreno-Morton, R., & Franci, A. (2023). Control of Multistability Through Local Sensitivity Analysis: Application to Cellular Decision-Making Networks. IEEE Control Systems Letters, 7, 373 - 378. doi:10.1109/LCSYS.2022.3189316

Rivera-Yoshida, N., Bottagisio, M., Attanasi, D., Savadori, P., De Vecchi, E., Bidossi, A., & Franci, A. (28 February 2022). Host Environment Shapes S. aureus Social Behavior as Revealed by Microscopy Pattern Formation and Dynamic Aggregation Analysis. Microorganisms, 10 (3), 526. doi:10.3390/microorganisms10030526

Bizyaeva, A., Amorim, G., Santos, M., Franci, A., & Leonard, N. E. (2022). Switching Transformations for Decentralized Control of Opinion Patterns in Signed Networks: Application to Dynamic Task Allocation. IEEE Control Systems Letters, 6, 3463 - 3468. doi:10.1109/LCSYS.2022.3185981

Park, S., Bizyaeva, A., Kawakatsu, M., Franci, A., & Leonard, N. E. (2022). Tuning Cooperative Behavior in Games with Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics. IEEE Control Systems Letters, 6, 2030 - 2035. doi:10.1109/LCSYS.2021.3138725

Leonard, N. E., Lipsitz, K., Bizyaeva, A., Franci, A., & Lelkes, Y. (14 December 2021). The nonlinear feedback dynamics of asymmetric political polarization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118 (50). doi:10.1073/pnas.2102149118

Ramos, C. H., Rodríguez-Sánchez, E., Del Angel, J. A. A., Arzola, A. V., Benítez, M., Escalante, A. E., Franci, A., Volpe, G., & Rivera-Yoshida, N. (August 2021). The environment topography alters the way to multicellularity in Myxococcus xanthus. Science Advances, 7 (35). doi:10.1126/sciadv.abh2278

Franci, A., Bizyaeva, A., Park, S., & Leonard, N. E. (June 2021). Analysis and control of agreement and disagreement opinion cascades. Swarm Intelligence, 15 (1-2), 47 - 82. doi:10.1007/s11721-021-00190-w

Bizyaeva, A., Matthews, A., Franci, A., & Leonard, N. E. (2021). Patterns of Nonlinear Opinion Formation on Networks. In 2021 American Control Conference, ACC 2021. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. doi:10.23919/ACC50511.2021.9482811

Ratliff, J., Franci, A., Marder, E., & O'Leary, T. (20 April 2021). Neuronal oscillator robustness to multiple global perturbations. Biophysical Journal, 120 (8), 1454 - 1468. doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2021.01.038

Bizyaeva, A., Sorochkin, T., Franci, A., & Ehrich Leonard, N. (2021). Control of Agreement and Disagreement Cascades with Distributed Inputs. In 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2021. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. doi:10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9683650

Franci, A. (2021). Feedback design of spatially-distributed filters with tunable resolution. In 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2021. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. doi:10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9683140

Juarez-Alvarez, O., & Franci, A. (2021). In-phase oscillations from the cooperation of cellular and network positive feedback in synaptically-coupled oscillators. In 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2021. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. doi:10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9683708

Franci, A., O'Leary, T., & Golowasch, J. (October 2020). Positive Dynamical Networks in Neuronal Regulation: How Tunable Variability Coexists with Robustness. IEEE Control Systems Letters, 4 (4), 946 - 951. doi:10.1109/LCSYS.2020.2997214

Castaños, F., Miranda-Villatoro, F. A., & Franci, A. (2020). A notion of equivalence for linear complementarity problems Applications to the design of nonsmooth bifurcations. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 53 (2), 5435 - 5440. doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.1543

Rivera-Yoshida, N., Arzola, A. V., Arias Del Angel, J. A., Franci, A., Travisano, M., Escalante, A. E., & Benítez, M. (March 2019). Plastic multicellular development of Myxococcus xanthus: genotype-environment interactions in a physical gradient. Royal Society Open Science, 6 (3), 181730. doi:10.1098/rsos.181730

Franci, A., Herrera-Valdez, M. A., Lara-Aparicio, M., & Padilla-Longoria, P. (08 November 2018). Synchronization, Oscillator Death, and Frequency Modulation in a Class of Biologically Inspired Coupled Oscillators. Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 4. doi:10.3389/fams.2018.00051

Gray, R., Franci, A., Srivastava, V., & Leonard, N. E. (June 2018). Multiagent Decision-Making Dynamics Inspired by Honeybees. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 5 (2), 793 - 806. doi:10.1109/TCNS.2018.2796301

Drion, G., Dethier, J., Franci, A., & Sepulchre, R. (23 April 2018). Switchable slow cellular conductances determine robustness and tunability of network states. PLoS Computational Biology, 14, 1006125. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006125

Franci, A.* , Drion, G.* , & Sepulchre, R.*. (01 March 2018). Robust and tunable bursting requires slow positive feedback. Journal of Neurophysiology, 119, 1222-1234. doi:10.1152/jn.00804.2017

Sacré, P., & Franci, A. (2016). Singularly perturbed phase response curves for relaxation oscillators. In Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/CDC.2016.7798982

Franci, A., Srivastava, V., & Ehrich Leonard, N. (2015). A Realization Theory for Bio-inspired Collective Decision-Making. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/320279. doi:10.48550/arXiv.1503.08526

Drion, G., Franci, A., Dethier, J., & Sepulchre, R. (2015). Dynamic Input Conductances Shape Neuronal Spiking. eNeuro. doi:10.1523/ENEURO.0031-14.2015

Drion, G., O'Leary, T., Dethier, J., Franci, A., & Sepulchre, R. (2015). Neuronal behaviors: A control perspective. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 54, 1923-1944. doi:10.1109/CDC.2015.7402491

Dethier, J., Drion, G., Franci, A., & Sepulchre, R. (26 March 2013). Impacts of a unicellular mechanism on network behaviors [Paper presentation]. 32nd Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Houffalize, Belgium.

Sacré, P., Franci, A., & Sepulchre, R. (26 March 2013). Singularly perturbed phase response curves [Paper presentation]. 32nd Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Houffalize, Belgium.

Franci, A.* , Drion, G.* , Seutin, V., & Sepulchre, R. (2013). A Balance Equation Determines a Switch in Neuronal Excitability. PLoS Computational Biology, 9, 1003040. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003040

Drion, G.* , Franci, A.* , Seutin, V., & Sepulchre, R. (August 2012). A novel phase portrait for neuronal excitability. PLoS ONE, 7 (8). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041806

Franci, A.* , Drion, G.* , & Sepulchre, R. (2012). An Organizing Center in a Planar Model of Neuronal Excitability. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 11 (4), 1698-1722. doi:10.1137/120875016

Franci, A., Chaillet, A., & Bezzaoucha, S. (2011). Toward oscillations inhibition by mean-field feedback in Kuramoto oscillators. In Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress. IFAC Secretariat. doi:10.3182/20110828-6-IT-1002.02170

Franci, A., & Chaillet, A. (December 2010). Quantised control of nonlinear systems: Analysis of robustness to parameter uncertainty, measurement errors, and exogenous disturbances. International Journal of Control, 83 (12), 2453 - 2462. doi:10.1080/00207179.2010.529464

Franci, A., Chaillet, A., & Pasillas-Lépine, W. (2010). Phase-locking between Kuramoto oscillators: Robustness to time-varying natural frequencies. In 2010 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2010. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. doi:10.1109/CDC.2010.5717876