Books:

• J. Wang, W. Hu, and T. Chen, Intelligent Industrial Alarm Systems: Advanced Analysis and Design Methods, Springer, 2024.
• F. Yang, P. Duan, S.L. Shah, and T. Chen, Capturing Connectivity and Causality in Complex Industrial Processes, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology, Springer, 2014.

Journal Papers:

• M. H. Rahaman, H. S. Alinezhad, A. W. Al-Dabbagh, and T. Chen, Cyclic mining of alarm and operator action events for enhanced process operation, Control Engineering Practice, vol. 153, 106069, Dec. 2024.
• H. R. M. Rao, B. Zhou, K. Brown, T. Chen and S. L. Shah, Alarm correlation analysis with applications to industrial alarm management, Control Engineering Practice, vol. 143, 105812, Feb. 2024.
• H. S. Alinezhad, J. Shang, T. Chen, and S. L. Shah,  A probabilistic framework for online analysis of alarm floods using convolutional neural networks, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 73, pp. 1-11, Nov. 2023.
• M. R. Parvez, W. Hu, and T. Chen, An association rule mining approach to predict alarm events in industrial alarm floods, Control Engineering Practice, vol. 138, 105617, Jul. 2023.
• I. Amini, Y. Jing and T. Chen, Adaptive Naive Bayes Classifier Based Filter Using Kernel Density Estimation for Pipeline Leakage Detection, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 426-433, Jan. 2023.
• H. S. Alinezhad, M. H. Roohi, and T. Chen, A review of alarm root cause analysis in process industries: Common methods, recent research status, and challenges, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, Dec. 2022.
• H. S. Alinezhad, J. Shang, and T. Chen, Open set online classification of industrial alarm floods with alarm ranking, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 72, pp. 1-11, Dec 2022.
• M. R. Parvez, W. Hu, and T. Chen, Real-time pattern matching and ranking for early prediction of industrial alarm floods, Control Engineering Practice, vol. 120, 105004, Mar 2022.
• H. S. Alinezhad, J. Shang, and T. Chen, Early classification of industrial alarm floods based on semi-supervised learning, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (Early Access), May 2021.
• B. Zhou, W. Hu, and T. Chen, Pattern extraction from industrial alarm flood sequences by a modified CloFAST algorithm, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (Early Access), Apr. 2021.
• M. H. Roohi, T. Chen, Z. Guan, and T. Yamamoto, A new approach to design alarm filters using the plant and controller knowledge, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 60, pp. 3648-3657, Mar. 2021.
• M. H. Roohi, T. Chen, Generalized moving variance filters for industrial alarm systems, Journal of Process Control, vol. 95, pp. 75-85, Nov. 2020.
• B. Zhou, W. Hu, K. Brown, and T. Chen, Generalized pattern matching of industrial alarm flood sequences via word processing and sequence alignment, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (Early Access), Sept. 2020.
• M. H. Roohi, T. Chen, and I. Izadi, Control and alarm interplay and robust state-feedback synthesis with an alarm performance constraint, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Aug. 2020.
• J. Shang, T. Chen, Early classification of alarm floods via exponentially attenuated component analysis, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics vol. 67, pp. 8702 - 8712, Oct. 2019.
• S. Lai, F. Yang, T. Chen, and L. Cao, Accelerated multiple alarm flood sequence alignment for abnormality pattern mining, Journal of Process Control vol. 82, pp. 44-57, Oct. 2019.
• Y. Xiong, Y. Jing, and T. Chen, Abnormality detection based on the Kullback-Leibler divergence for generalized Gaussian data, Control Engineering Practice, vol. 85, pp. 257-270, Apr. 2019.
• B. Zhou, W. Hu, and T. Chen, A new method for alarm monitoring of equipment start-up operations with applications to pumps, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Mar. 2019.
• W. Hu, A. W. Al-Dabbagh, T. Chen, and S. L. Shah, Design of visualization plots of industrial alarm and event data for enhanced alarm management, Control Engineering Practice, vol. 79, pp. 50-64, Oct. 2018.
• W. Hu, S. L. Shah, T. Chen, Framework for a smart data analytics platform towards process monitoring and alarm management, Computers & Chemical Engineering, vol. 114, pp. 225-244, Jun. 2018.
• A. W. Al-Dabbagh, W. Hu, S. Lai, T. Chen and S. L. Shah, Toward the advancement of decision support tools for industrial facilities: addressing operation metrics, visualization plots, and alarm floods, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, May 2018.
• W. Hu, T. Chen, and Sirish L. Shah, Discovering association rules of mode-dependent alarms from alarm and event logs, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 971-983, May 2018.
• M. S. Afzal, T. Chen, A. Bandehkhoda, I. Izadi, Analysis and design of time-deadbands for univariate alarm system, Control Engineering Practice, vol. 71, pp. 96-107, Feb. 2018.
• Y. Sun, W. Tan, T. Chen, A method to remove chattering alarms using median filters, ISA Transactions, vol. 73, pp. 22-30, Feb. 2018.
• W. Hu, T. Chen, S. L. Shah, Detection of frequent alarm patterns in industrial alarm floods using itemset mining methods, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 65, no. 9, pp. 7290-7300, Jan. 2018.
• Y. Xiong, Y. Jing, T. Chen, Sensitivity analysis and sensitivity-based design for linear alarm filters, Control Engineering Practice, vol. 70, pp. 29-39, Jan. 2018.
• C. Guo, W. Hu, S. Lai, F. Yang, and T. Chen, An accelerated alignment method for analyzing time sequences of industrial alarm floods, Journal of Process Control, vol. 57, pp. 102-115, 2017.
• S. Lai, F. Yang, and T. Chen, Online pattern matching and prediction of incoming alarm floods Journal of Process Control, no. 56, pp. 69-78, 2017.
• W. Hu, J. Wang, T. Chen, and Sirish L. Shah, Cause-effect analysis of industrial alarm variables using transfer entropies, Control Engineering Practice, vol. 64, pp. 205-214, 2017.
• M. S. Afzal, W. Tan, and T. Chen, Process monitoring for multimodal processes with mode-reachability constraints, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 64, no. 5, pp. 4325-4335, May 2017.
• M. S. Afzal and T. Chen, Analysis and design of multimode delay-timers, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, vol. 120, pp. 179-193, 2017.
• W. Tan, Y. Sun, I. I. Azad, and T. Chen, Design of univariate alarm systems via rank order filters, Control Engineering Practice, vol.59, pp.55-63, 2017.
• S. Lai, and T. Chen, A method for pattern mining in multiple alarm flood sequences, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, vol.117, pp. 831-839, 2017.
• W. Hu, J. Wang, and T. Chen, A local alignment approach to similarity analysis of industrial alarm flood sequences, Control Engineering Practice, vol.55, pp.13-25, 2016.
• J. Wang, and T. Chen, Main causes of long-standing alarms and their removal by dynamic state-based alarm systems, Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, vol.43, pp.106-119, 2016
• J. Wang, F. Yang, T. Chen, and S.L. Shah, An overview of industrial alarm systems: main causes for alarm overloading, research status, and open problems, IEEE Trans. Automation Science and Engineering, vol.3, no.2, pp.1045-1061, 2016.
• W. Hu, J. Wang, and T. Chen, A new method to detect and quantify correlated alarms with occurrence delays, Computers & Chemical Engineering, vol. 80, pp. 189-198, 2015.
• Y. Cheng, D.Shi, T. Chen, and Z. Shu, Optimal data scaling for principal component pursuit: a Lyapunov approach to convergence, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 60, no. 8, pp. 2057-2071, 2015.
• P. Duan,  F. Yang, S. L. Shah, and T. Chen, Transfer zero-entropy and Its application for capturing cause and effect relationship between variables, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 855-867, 2015.
• P. Duan,  T. Chen, and S. L. Shah, and F. Yang, Methods for root cause diagnosis of plant‐ wide oscillations, AIChE Journal, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 2019-2034, 2014.
• J. Wang and T. Chen, An online method to remove chattering and repeating alarms based on alarm durations and intervals, Computers & Chemical Engineering, vol. 67, pp. 43-52, 2014.
• J. Wang and T. Chen, An online method for detection and reduction of chattering alarms due to oscillation, Computers & Chemical Engineering, vol. 54, pp. 140-150, 2013.
• Z. Yang, J. Wang, and T. Chen, Detection of correlated alarms based on similarity coefficients of binary data, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 1014-1025, 2013.
• S.R. Kondaveeti, I. Izadi, S.L. Shah, D.S. Shook, R. Kadali, and T. Chen, Quantification of alarm chatter based on run length distributions, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, vol. 91, no. 12, pp. 2550-2558, 2013.
• P. Duan,  F. Yang, T. Chen, and S. L. Shah, Direct causality detection via the transfer entropy approach, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 2052-2066, 2013.
• Y. Cheng, I. Izadi, and T. Chen, Pattern matching of alarm flood sequences by a modified Smith-Waterman algorithm, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, vol. 91, no. 6, pp. 1085-1094, 2013.
• Y. Cheng, I. Izadi, and T. Chen, Optimal alarm signal processing: filter design and performance analysis, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 446-451, 2013.
• K. Ahmed, I. Izadi, T. Chen, and D. Joe, Similarity analysis of industrial alarm flood data, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 452-457, 2013.
• N.A. Adnan, Y. Cheng, I. Izadi, T. Chen, Study of generalized delay-timers in alarm configuration, Journal of Process Control, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 382-395, 2013.
• S.R. Kondaveeti, I. Izadi, S.L. Shah, T. Black, and T. Chen, Graphical tools for routine assessment of industrial alarm systems, Computers & Chemical Engineering, vol. 46, pp. 39-47, 2012.
• J. Xu, J. Wang, I. Izadi, and T. Chen, Performance assessment and design for univariate alarm systems based on FAR, MAR, and AAD, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 296-307, 2012.
• F. Yang, S.L. Shah, D. Xiao, and T. Chen, Improved correlation analysis and visualization of industrial alarm data, ISA Transactions, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 499-506, 2012.
• E. Naghoosi, I. Izadi, and T. Chen, Estimation of alarm chattering, Journal of Process Control, vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 1243-1249, 2011.
• N.A. Adnan, I. Izadi, and T. Chen, On expected detection delays for alarm systems with deadbands and delay-Timers, Journal of Process Control, vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 1318-1331, 2011.
• F. Yang, D. Xiao, and S.L. Shah, Optimal sensor location design for reliable fault detection in presence of false alarms, Sensors, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 8579-8592, 2009.

Conference Papers:

• Y. Rahimi, H. R. M. Rao, and T. Chen, Optimizing Alarm Design: A Comparison of Delay-Timers, Counters, and Time-Deadbands,  2024 IEEE 3rd Industrial Electronics Society Annual On-Line Conference (ONCON), Beijing, China, 2024, Art. No. 10931662.
• H. R. M. Rao, T. Chen, and S. L. Shah, Advances in the Smart Data Analytics Framework: Integrating Data Extraction and Automated Reporting,  2024 IEEE 3rd Industrial Electronics Society Annual On-Line Conference (ONCON), Beijing, China, 2024, Art. No. 10931649.
• A. Najafi, P. Setoodeh, and T. Chen, Real-Time Fault Diagnosis: A Transformer-Based Approach,  2024 IEEE 3rd Industrial Electronics Society Annual On-Line Conference (ONCON), Beijing, China, 2024, Art. No. 10931580.
• M. R. Parvez, M. Hossein Roohi, Z. Guo, and F. Xu, A Reinforcement Learning-Based Approach for Early Prediction of Industrial Alarm Floods, IECON 2024 - 50th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Chicago, IL, USA, 2024, Art. No. 10905813.
• M. H. Rahaman, H. S. Alinezhad, and T. Chen, Identification of most critical alarms for alarm flood reduction, IFAC-PapersOnline, 58(14), pp. 835-840, 2024.
• J. Zhou, J. Shang, and T. Chen, Performance assessment for stochastic anomaly detectors in industrial alarm systems, 2024 IEEE 18th International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA), Reykjavík, Iceland, 2024, pp. 406-411.
• N. Tamascelli, H. R. M. Rao, V. Cozzani, N. Paltrinieri and T. Chen, Online classification of alarm floods using a Word2vec algorithm, IECON 2023- 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Singapore, Singapore, 2023, pp. 1-6.
• H. R. M. Rao, S. L. Shah, and T. Chen, Application of alarm correlations in root cause diagnosis of plant-wide oscillations, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 56(2),  pp.7154-7159, 2023.
• H. S. Alinezhad, J. Shang and T. Chen, A modified Bag-of-Words representation for industrial alarm floods, 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Advanced Control of Industrial Processes (AdCONIP), 2022, pp. 331-336, Vancouver, Canada, 7-9 Aug. 2022.
• H. R. M. Rao, B. Zhou, T. Chen and S. L. Shah, Discovery of alarm correlations based on pattern mining and network analysis, American Control Conference (ACC), 2022, pp. 2467-2472, Atlanta, USA, 8-10 Jun. 2022.
• M. H. Roohi and T. Chen, Performance assessment and design of quadratic alarm filters, IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 53, pp. 494-499, 2020.
• M. R. Parvez, W. Hu, and T. Chen, Comparison of the Smith-Waterman and Needleman-Wunsch algorithms for online similarity analysis of industrial alarm floods, IEEE Electric Power and Energy Conference (EPEC), Edmonton, Canada, 9-10 Nov. 2020.
• K. R. Wang, W. Hu, and T. Chen, An efficient method to discover association rules of mode-dependent alarms based on the FP-Growth algorithm, IEEE Electric Power and Energy Conference (EPEC), Edmonton, Canada, 9-10 Nov. 2020.
• I. Amini, Y. Jing, T. Chen, A. Colin, and G. Meyer, A two-stage deep-learning based detection method for pipeline leakage and transient conditions, IEEE Electric Power and Energy Conference (EPEC), Edmonton, Canada, 9-10 Nov. 2020.
• W. Hu, T. Chen, and G. Meyer, Constructing workflow models of alarm responses via trace labeling and dependency analysis, 58th Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE), pp. 1615-1620, Hiroshima, Japan, 10-13 Sept. 2019.
• Y. Xiong, Y. Jing, and T. Chen, Abnormality detection with Rényi divergence for univariate Gaussian data, IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM), pp. 1-6, Victoria, Canada, 21-23 Aug. 2019.
• M. H. Roohi, and T. Chen, H2 controller synthesis with an alarm performance constraint, IEEE 28th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), pp. 533-538, Vancouver, Canada, 12-14 June 2019.
• B. Zhou, W. Hu, and T. Chen, Cross-process alarm flood similarity analysis based on abstracted alarm descriptors, IEEE 28th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), pp. 1749-1754, Vancouver, Canada, 12-14 June 2019.
• W. Hu, A. W. Al-Dabbagh, D. Li, and T. Chen, Extraction and graphical representation of operator responses to multivariate alarms in industrial facilities, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 51(18), 25-30, 2018.
• M. S. Afzal, T. Chen, A. Bandehkhoda, and I. Izadi, Performance assessment of time-deadbands, American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 4815-4820, Seattle, USA, 24-26 May 2017.
• W. Hu, T. Chen, S. L.Shah, and M. Hollender, Cause and effect analysis for decision support in alarm floods, IFAC-PapersOnLine 50(1), pp. 13940-13945, 2017.
• A. W. Al-Dabbagh, W. Hu, S. Lai, T. Chen, and S. L. Shah, Better understanding of process operation using performance metrics and visualization plots, IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), pp. 2015-2020, Mauna Lani, HI, USA, 2017.
• W. Hu, T. Chen, and S. L. Shah, An automated data-driven method to detect mode-based alarms, American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 5416-5421, Seattle, WA, USA, 2017.
• Y. Xiong, Y. Jing, and T. Chen, Performance sensitivity analysis of linear alarm filters, American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 4424-4429, Seattle, WA, USA, 2017.
• S. Afzal, and A. W. Al-Dabbagh, Forecasting in Industrial Process Control: A Hidden Markov Model Approach, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 50(1), 14770-14775, 2017.
• W. Hu, A. W. Al-Dabbagh, T. Chen, and S. L. Shah, Process discovery of operator actions in response to univariate alarms, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 49(7), 1026-1031, 2016.
• S. Dasani, S. L. Shah, T. Chen, J. Funnell, and R. W. Pollard, Monitoring safety of process operations using industrial workflows, Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes, pp. 451-456, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, June 7-10, 2015.
• W. Hu, M. S. Afzal, G. Brandt, E. Lau, T. Chen, and S. L. Shah, An application of advanced alarm management tools to an oil sand extraction plant, Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes, pp. 642-647, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, June 7-10, 2015.
• W. Hu, J. Wang, and T. Chen, Fast sequence alignment for comparing industrial alarm floods, Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes, pp. 648-653, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, June 7-10, 2015.
• S. Lai, and T. Chen, Methodology and application of pattern mining in multiple alarm flood sequences, Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes, pp. 658-663, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, June 7-10, 2015.
• Y. Cheng and T. Chen, Application of principal component pursuit to process fault detection and diagnosis, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp. 3535 - 3540, Washington, DC, USA, June 17-19, 2013.
• N.A. Adnan, Y. Cheng, I. Izadi, and T. Chen, A Generalized Delay-timer for Alarm Triggering, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp. 6679-6684, Montreal, Canada, June 27-29, 2012.
• P. Duan, F. Yang, T. Chen, and S.L. Shah, Detection of Direct Causality Based on Process Data, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp. 6679-6684, Montreal, Canada, June 27-29, 2012.
• Z. Yang, J. Wang, and T. Chen, On Correlation Analysis of Bivariate Alarm Signals, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, pp. 530-535, Shenyang, China, June 6-8, 2012.
• F. Yang, S.L. Shah, D. Xiao, and T. Chen, Improved Correlation Analysis and Visualization for Industrial Alarm Data, Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, pp. 12898-12903, Milano, Italy, Apr. 12, 2011.
• N.A. Adnan, I. Izadi, and T. Chen, Computing Detection Delays in Industrial Alarm Systems, Proceedings of the  American Control Conference, pp. 786-791, San Francisco, CA, June 29-July 1, 2011.
• E. Naghoosi, I. Izadi, and T. Chen, A Study on the Relation between Alarm Deadbands and Optimal Alarm Limits, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp. 3627-3632, San Francisco, CA, June 29-July 1, 2011.
• S.R. Kondaveeti, I. Izadi, S.L. Shah, and T. Chen, On the Use of Delay Timers and Latches for Efficient Alarm Design, Proceedings of the 19th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, pp. 970-975, Corfu, Greece, June 20-23, 2011.
• Y. Cheng, I. Izadi, and T. Chen, On Optimal Alarm Filter Design, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Advanced Control of Industrial Processes (keynote paper), pp.139-145, Hangzhou, China, May 23-26, 2011.
• S.R. Kondaveeti, I. Izadi, S.L. Shah, D.S. Shook, and R. Kadali, Quantification of Alarm Chatter Based on Run Length Distributions, Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 6809-6814, Atlanta, GA, Dec. 15-17, 2010.
• I. Izadi, S.L. Shah, and T. Chen, Effective Resource Utilization for Alarm Management, Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 6803-6808, Atlanta, GA, Dec. 15-17,  2010.
• F. Yang, S.L. Shah, and D. Xiao, Signed Directed Graph Modeling of Industrial Processes and their Validation by Data-based Methods, Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems, pp. 387-392, Nice, France, Oct. 6-8, 2010.
• S.R. Kondaveeti, I. Izadi, S.L. Shah, and T. Black, Graphical Representation of Industrial Alarm Data, Proceedings of the 11th IFAC Symposium on Analysis, Design and Evaluation of Human-Machine Systems, pp. 181-186, Valenciennes, France, Aug. 31-Sep. 3, 2010.
• F. Yang, S.L. Shah, and D. Xiao, SDG (Signed Directed Graph) Based Process Description and Fault Propagation Analysis for a Tailings Pumping Process, Proceedings of the 13th IFAC Symposium on Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing, pp. 50-55, Cape Town, South Africa, Aug. 2-4, 2010.
• F. Yang, S.L. Shah, and D. Xiao, Correlation Analysis of Alarm Data and Alarm Limit Design for Industrial Processes, Proceedings of the 2010 American Control Conference, pp. 5850-5855, Baltimore, MD, June 30-July 2, 2010.
• S.R. Kondaveeti, S.L. Shah, and I. Izadi, Application of Multivariate Statistics for Efficient Alarm Generation, Proceedings of the 7th IFAC Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes, pp. 657-662, Barcelona, Spain, June 30-July 3, 2009.
• I. Izadi, S.L. Shah, D.S. Shook, S.R. Kondaveeti, and T. Chen, A Framework for Optimal Design of Alarm Systems, Proceedings of the 7th IFAC Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes, pp. 651-656, Barcelona, Spain, June 30-July 3, 2009.
• I. Izadi, S.L. Shah, D.S. Shook, and T. Chen, An Introduction to Alarm Analysis and Design, Proceedings of the 7th IFAC Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes, pp. 645-650, Barcelona, Spain, June 30-July 3, 2009.