Oliver Mason

Prof Oliver Mason

Hamilton Institute, Mathematics and Statistics

Professor

Location Logic House

Floor 2nd Floor

Room 204

Phone (01) 708 3672

Email oliver.mason@mu.ie

Biography

Oliver Mason completed a B.A (mod) and an MSc (Research) in Mathematics in Trinity College in 1995 and 1998 respectively. After spending time working on satellite communications and in the institute of technology sector, he did a PhD in Lyapunov stability theory for switched systems at Maynooth University, completing the latter in 2004.

He has been a faculty member at Maynooth University since 2009.

Research Publications

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2011	Mason, O;Verwoerd, M;Clifford, P (2011) 'Inference of Protein Function from the Structure of Interaction Networks' In: STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX NETWORKS. BERLIN : SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN. [DOI]

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2023	de Godoy I.B.S.;McGrane-Corrigan B.;Mason O.;Moral R.d.A.;Godoy W.A.C. (2023) 'Plant-host shift, spatial persistence, and the viability of an invasive insect population'. Ecological Modelling, 475 . [DOI]
	2020	Aisling Mc Glinchey and Oliver Mason (2020) 'Observations on the bias of nonnegative mechanisms for differential privacy'. AIMS Journal, 2 (4):429-442. http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/fods.2020020 [Full-Text]
	2020	Aisling Mc Glinchey and Oliver Mason (2020) 'Some novel aspects of the positive linear observer problem: Differential privacy and optimal l1 sensitivity'. Journal of the Franklin Institute, 357 (18):13923-13940. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfranklin.2020.10.004 [Full-Text]
	2018	Aleksandrov A.;Mason O. (2018) 'Diagonal stability of a class of discrete-time positive switched systems with delay'. IET Control Theory and Applications, 12 (6):812-818. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2018	Nicola Guglielmi, Oliver Mason and Fabian Wirth (2018) 'Barabanov norms, Lipschitz continuity and monotonicity for the max algebraic joint spectral radius'. LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS, 550 :37-58. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2018	Aleksandrov, A. Yu.; Mason, O. (2018) 'On Diagonal Stability of Positive Systems with Switches and Delays'. Automation and Remote Control, 79 (12):2114-2127. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2017	A. Aleksandrov, O. Mason and A. Vorob'eva (2017) 'Diagonal Riccati stability and the Hadamard product'. LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS, 534 :158-173. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2017	N. Holohan, D.J. Leith and O. Mason (2017) 'Extreme points of the local differential privacy polytope'. LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS, 534 :78-96. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2017	N. Holohan, D.J. Leith and O. Mason (2017) 'Optimal Differentially Private Mechanisms for Randomised Response'. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 12 (11):2726-2735. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2016	Aleksandrov A.;Mason O. (2016) 'Diagonal Riccati stability and applications'. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 492 :38-51. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2016	Peters A.;Middleton R.;Mason O. (2016) 'Cyclic interconnection for formation control of 1-D vehicle strings'. European Journal of Control, 27 :36-44. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2016	Holohan N.;Leith D.;Mason O. (2016) 'Differentially private response mechanisms on categorical data'. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 211 :86-98. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2015	Gursoy, BB;Kirkland, S;Mason, O;Sergeev, S (2015) 'The Markov Chain Tree Theorem in commutative semirings and the State Reduction Algorithm in commutative semifields'. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 468 :184-196. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2015	Holohan, N;Leith, DJ;Mason, O (2015) 'Differential privacy in metric spaces: Numerical, categorical and functional data under the one roof'. Information Sciences, 305 :256-268. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2014	A. Yu Aleksandrov and O. Mason (2014) 'Diagonal Lyapunov–Krasovskii functionals for discrete-time positive systems with delay'. Systems and Control Letters, 63 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2014	Peters, AA;Middleton, RH;Mason, O (2014) 'Leader tracking in homogeneous vehicle platoons with broadcast delays'. Automatica, 50 :64-74. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2014	A. Yu Aleksandrov and O. Mason (2014) 'Absolute stability and Lyapunov–Krasovskii functionals for switched nonlinear systems with time-delay'. JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE-ENGINEERING AND APPLI, 351 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2014	M. Ait-Rami, V. Bokharaie, O. Mason and F. Wirth (2014) 'Stability criteria for SIS epidemiological models under switching policies '. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B, 19 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2014	Mason, O;Wirth, F (2014) 'Extremal norms for positive linear inclusions'. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 444 :100-113. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2013	Gursoy B.;Mason O.;Sergeev S. (2013) 'The analytic hierarchy process, max algebra and multi-objective optimisation'. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 438 (7):2911-2928. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2013	B. Benek Gursoy, S. Kirkland, O. Mason and S. Sergeev (2013) 'On the Markov Chain Tree Theorem in Max Algebra'. Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra, 26 . [Full-Text]
	2013	Small, L;Mason, O (2013) 'Information diffusion on the iterated local transitivity model of online social networks'. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 161 :1338-1344. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2013	Small, L;Mason, O (2013) 'Nash Equilibria for competitive information diffusion on trees'. Information Processing Letters, 113 :217-219. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2012	Y. O'Donoghue, O. Mason and R. Middleton (2012) 'On the Kamke-Muller conditions, monotonicity and continuity for bi-modal piecewise-smooth systems'. Systems and Control Letters, 61 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2012	O. Mason (2012) 'Diagonal Riccati Stability and Positive Time-Delay Systems'. Systems and Control Letters, 61 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2011	B. Benek Gursoy and O. Mason (2011) 'P1-max and S-max properties and asymptotic stability in the max algebra'. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 435 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2011	M. Verwoerd and O. Mason (2011) 'A Convergence Result for the Kuramoto Model with All-to-All Coupling'. SIAM JOURNAL OF APPLIED DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS, 10 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2011	V. S. Bokharaie, O. Mason and F. Wirth (2011) 'Stability and positivity of equilibria for subhomogeneous cooperative systems'. To be added, 74 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2011	Benek Gursoy, B. and O. Mason (2011) 'Spectral Properties of Matrix Polynomials in the Max Algebra '. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 435 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2011	V. S. Bokharaie, O. Mason and M. Verwoerd (2011) 'Correction to D-Stability and Delay-Independent Stability of Homogeneous Cooperative Systems'. 56 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2010	V. S. Bokharaie, O. Mason and M. Verwoerd (2010) 'D-Stability and Delay-independent stability of homogeneous cooperative systems'. 55 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2010	Griggs, WM;King, CK;Shorten, RN;Mason, O;Wulff, K (2010) 'Quadratic Lyapunov functions for systems with state-dependent switching'. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 433 :52-63. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2009	Solmaz, S., Mason, O. and Shorten, R. (2009) 'General Inertia and Circle Criterion'. PROCEEDINGS IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND MECHANICS, 6 :845-845. [Full-Text]
	2009	Shorten, R.N., O. Mason, C. King (2009) 'An elementary proof of the Barker, Berman, Plemmons result on diagonal stability and extensions '. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 431 :34-40. [Full-Text]
	2009	Verwoerd, M. and Mason, O. (2009) 'On computing the critical coupling coefficient for the Kuramoto model on a complete Bipartite graph'. SIAM JOURNAL OF APPLIED DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS, 8 . [Full-Text]
	2009	Mason, O. and Verwoerd, M. (2009) 'Observations on the Stability Properties of Cooperative Systems'. Systems and Control Letters, 58 . [Full-Text]
	2009	Knorn, F;Mason, O;Shorten, R (2009) 'On linear co-positive Lyapunov functions for sets of linear positive systems'. Automatica, 45 :1943-1947. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2008	M. Verwoerd and O. Mason (2008) 'Global phase-locking in finite populations of phase-coupled oscillators'. SIAM JOURNAL OF APPLIED DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS, 7 :134-160. [Full-Text]
	2008	Solmaz S., Shorten R., and Mason O. (2008) 'Switching Stability of Automotive Roll Dynamics Subject to Interval Uncertainty'. PROCEEDINGS IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND MECHANICS, 8 :10921-10922. [Full-Text]
	2008	P. Wellstead, E. Bullinger, D. Kalamatianos, O. Mason and M. Verwoerd (2008) 'The Role of Control and System Theory in Systems Biology'. Annual Reviews in Control, 32 :33-47. [Full-Text]
	2007	Gurvits, L;Shorten, R;Mason, O (2007) 'On the stability of switched positive linear systems'. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 52 :1099-1103. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2007	O. Mason and M. Verwoerd (2007) 'Graph Theory and Networks in Biology'. IET Systems Biology, 1 :89-119. [Full-Text]
	2007	Mason, O;Shorten, R (2007) 'On linear copositive Lyapunov functions and the stability of switched positive linear systems'. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 52 :1346-1349. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2007	Shorten, R., Wirth, F., Mason, O., Wulff, K. and King, C. (2007) 'Stability Criteria for Switched and Hybrid Systems'. 49 :545-592. [Full-Text]
	2007	Zeheb, E;Mason, O;Solmaz, S;Shorten, R (2007) 'Some results on quadratic stability of switched systems with interval uncertainty'. International Journal of Control, 80 :825-831. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2007	O. Mason, R. Shorten and S. Solmaz (2007) 'On the Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov lemma and common Lyapunov solutions for matrices with regular inertia'. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 420 :183-197. [Full-Text]
	2006	Verwoerd M.;Mason O. (2006) 'Discussion on: Multi-layer switching control using generalized sampled-data hold functions'. European Journal of Control, 12 (5):500-503. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2006	Mason, O;Shorten, R (2006) 'On the simultaneous diagonal stability of a pair of positive linear systems'. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 413 :13-23. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2006	Solmaz S., Mason O., Shorten R. (2006) 'General Inertia and Circle Criterion'. PROCEEDINGS IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND MECHANICS, 6 :845-846. [Full-Text]
	2005	Mason O.;Shorten R. (2005) 'The geometry of convex cones associated with the Lyapunov inequality and the common Lyapunov function problem'. Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra, 12 :42-63. [Full-Text]
	2004	R.N. Shorten, O. Mason, F. Cairbre and P. Curran (2004) 'A unifying framework for the Circle Criterion and other quadratic stability criteria'. International Journal of Control, 77 :1-8. [Full-Text]
	2004	Mason O.;Shorten R. (2004) 'On common quadratic Lyapunov functions for stable discrete-time LTI systems'. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 69 (3):271-283. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2003	Shorten, R. and Narendra, K. S. and O. Mason (2003) 'A note on common quadratic Lyapunov functions'. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 48 :110-113. [Full-Text]
	2003	Leith, DJ;Shorten, RN;Leithead, WE;Mason, O;Curran, P (2003) 'Issues in the design of switched linear control systems: A benchmark study'. International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, 17 :103-118. [DOI] [Full-Text]

Conference Publication

	Year	Publication
	2022	Jain J.K.;Mason O.;Peña-Sanchez Y.;Ringwood J.V. (2022) IFAC-PapersOnLine *Optimal Control of Wave Energy Devices with Nonlinear Reactive Power Constraints* [DOI]
	2022	Jain J.K.;Mason O.;Said H.A.;Ringwood J.V. (2022) IFAC-PapersOnLine *Limiting reactive power flow peaks in wave energy systems* [DOI]
	2018	Aisling McGlinchey and Oliver Mason (2018) European Control Conference *Bounding the L2 sensitivity of positive linear observers*
	2017	Mason, O.;Mc Glinchey, A.; Wirth, F. (2017) 5th International Symposium on Positive Systems, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, 471: 3--15 *Persistence, Periodicity and Privacy for Positive Systems in Epidemiology and Elsewhere*
	2017	McGlinchey, A.; Mason, O. (2017) IFAC World Congress *Differential privacy and the L1 sensitivity of positive linear observers* [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2016	Peter, A.A; Mason, O; Middleton, R.H. (2016) Control Applications (CCA), 2016 IEEE Conference on *Leader following with non-homogeneous weights for control of vehicle formations* [Full-Text]
	2014	Peters A.;Mason O.;Middleton R. (2014) 2014 European Control Conference, ECC 2014 *Cyclic interconnection in 1-D vehicle formation control* [DOI]
	2012	Mustafa Ait Rami, Vahid S. Bokharaie, Oliver Mason, Fabian Wirth (2012) Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS) *Extremal norms for positive linear inclusions* [Full-Text]
	2010	Griggs, W.M., C.K. King, R.N. Shorten, O. Mason and K. Wulff (2010) Proceedings of the 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation *A geometrical treatment for obtaining necessary and sufficient conditions for joint quadratic Lyapunov function existence for state-dependent, switched systems: a two-dimensional case.* [Full-Text]
	2010	Vahid Bokharaie, Oliver Mason and Fabian Wirth (2010) Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS) *Spread of epidemics in time-dependent networks* [Full-Text]
	2010	Vahid Bokharaie, Oliver Mason and Fabian Wirth (2010) Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS) *On the D-Stability of Linear and Nonlinear Positive Switched Systems* [Full-Text]
	2009	Knorn, F., O. Mason, R. Shorten (2009) Third Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Positive Systems: Theory and Application POSTA’09, 2-4 September 2009, Valencia, Spain *Applications of Linear Co-positive Lyapunov Functions for Switched Linear Positive Systems* [Full-Text]
	2009	Mason, O., V.S. Bokharaie and R. Shorten (2009) Proc. POSTA 2009, Valencia, Spain *Stability and D-stability for Switched Positive Systems* [Full-Text]
	2007	T. Rutjes, O. Mason and M. Verwoerd (2007) Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on the Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering (FOSBE), Stuttgart, Germany *On the growth of the largest component in duplication-divergence models of protein interaction networks*
	2007	O. Mason and R. Shorten (2007) Proc. American Control Conference, New York City, USA, July 11-13, 2007 *Quadratic and Copositive Lyapunov Functions and the Stability of Positive Switched Linear System* [Full-Text]
	2007	M. Verwoerd and O. Mason (2007) Proceedings of the American Control Conference, New York, 2007 *Conditions for the Existence of Fixed Points in a Finite System of Coupled Oscillators* [Full-Text]
	2005	Zeheb E. , Mason O. , Solmaz S. , and Shorten R. (2005) Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on, Mediterrean Conference on Control and Automation *On the quadratic stability of switched interval systems: Preliminary results* [Full-Text]
	2005	R. Shorten, O. Mason and K.Wulff (2005) LNCS 3355-Switching and Learning in Feedback Systems. European Summer School on Multi-Agent Control, Maynooth, Ireland, September 8-10, 2003 *Convex cones, Lyapunov functions and the stability of switched linear systems* [Full-Text]
	2005	M. Vilaplana, O. Mason, D. Leith and and W. Leithead (2005) LNCS 3355-Switching and Learning in Feedback Systems. European Summer School on Multi-Agent Control, Maynooth, Ireland, September 8-10, 2003 *Control of yaw rate and sideslip in 4-wheel steering cars with actuator constraints* [Full-Text]
	2005	P. Wellstead, O. Mason, W.T. O'Connor, K-H. Cho, E. Bullinger, O. Wolkenhauer, and S. Duncan (2005) Proc. Foundations of Systems Biology FOSBE 2005, August 7-10, Santa Barbara, CA, USA *Towards a systems understanding of the cerebral motor circuit*
	2004	O. Mason and R. Shorten (2004) IEEE Conference on Decision and Control *Some results on the stability of positive switched linear systems* [Full-Text]
	2004	Vilaplana,M., Mason.O., Leith, D.J., Leithead,W.E., Kalkkuhl, J., (2004) Proc. NOLCOS 2004, Stuttgart *Nonlinear Control of Four-Wheel Steering Cars with Actuator Constraints* [Full-Text]
	2004	L. Gurvits, R. Shorten and O. Mason (2004) Proc. Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Leuven *Preliminary results on the stability of switched positive linear systems* [Full-Text]
	2003	O. Mason and R. N. Shorten (2003) AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE *A conjecture on the existence of common quadratic Lyapunov functions for positive linear systems* [Full-Text]
	2003	R. N. Shorten, O. Mason, F. Ó Cairbre and P. Curran (2003) EUROPEAN CONTROL CONFERENCE *A unifying framework for the Circle Criterion and other quadratic stability criteria* [Full-Text]
	2003	O. Mason and R.N. Shorten (2003) AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE *On common quadratic Lyapunov functions for pairs of stable discrete-time LTI systems*
	2003	R. Shorten, K. S. Narendra, O. Mason and K. Wulff (2003) PROCEEDINGS OF 12TH YALE WORKSHOP ON ADAPTIVE AND LEARNING SYSTEMS *On the existence of common quadratic Lyapunov functions for single input single output systems*
	2002	Leith,D., Shorten,R., Leithead,W.E., Mason,O., Curran,P. (2002) Proc IFAC World Congress, Barcelona *A Wind Turbine Benchmark for Hybrid System Analysis and Design* [Full-Text]

Conference Contribution

	Year	Publication
	2009	(2009) Stability and D-stability for positive switched sy POSTA 2009 Valencia, Spain, .
	2009	(2009) Switched and Positive Systems Systems Biology Mini-Course Norwegian Univ. of Life Science, .

Book Review

	Year	Publication
	2008	P. Wellstead, E. Bullinger, D. Kalamatianos, O. Mason and M. Verwoerd (2008) The Role of Control and System Theory in Systems Biology. BREV [Full-Text]

Professional

Committees

Committee	Function	From / To
International Workshop on Systems Biology	Member of Organizing Committee	01/01/2006 -
International Workshop on Systems Biology	Member of Organizing Committee	01/01/2008 -
Technical Programme Committee (TPC) member of International Symposium on Models and Algorithms for the World Wide Web	Reviewer and Programme Committee Member	01/02/2014 - 01/07/2014
Technical Programme Committee (TPC) member of International Symposium on Models and Algorithms for the World Wide Web	Reviewer and Programme Committee Member	01/02/2016 - 01/07/2016
Technical Programme Committee (TPC) member of International Symposium on Models and Algorithms for the World Wide Web	Reviewer and Programme Committee Member	01/02/2018 - 01/07/2018
Technical Programme Committee (TPC) member of International Symposium on Models and Algorithms for the World Wide Web	Reviewer and Programme Committee Member	01/02/2015 - 01/07/2015
Technical Programme Committee (TPC) for Privacy in Statistical Databases	Reviewer and Programme Committee Member	01/02/2016 - 01/06/2016
Technical Programme Committee for International Symposium on Positive Systems	Reviewer and Programme Committee Member	01/01/2016 - 01/08/2016
Technical Programme Committee (TPC) member of International Symposium on Models and Algorithms for the World Wide Web	Reviewer and Programme Committee Member	01/03/2013 - 01/07/2013
Hamilton Institute Workshop on Nonnegative matrices	Member of Organizing Committee	01/01/2004 -
Hamilton Institute Workshop on Nonnegative matrices	Member of Organizing Committee	01/01/2008 -
Technical Programme Committee (TPC) member of International Symposium on Models and Algorithms for the World Wide Web	Reviewer and Programme Committee Member	01/02/2017 - 01/07/2017

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