Publications

Selected & recent

• 2026
  An Arrow of Time in Stable Autonomous Generation Preprint

  Z. Lu

  arXiv:2610.02845 · October 2026

  A geometric obstruction to exact, stable generation of a class of time-reversed chaotic dynamics, including the classical Lorenz attractor, by finite-dimensional autonomous C² systems with compact attracting sets and continuous readouts.

  Read the intuition & proof →
• 2026
  A dataset of differentiable biologically-derived single neuron models Accepted

  C. Yeung, K. Ganjam, Z. Zhang, S. Mihalas, Z. Lu

  Cell Reports Methods
• 2026
  The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Cell Types in Describing Neuronal Physiological Features Submitted

  H. Sharma, X.-P. Liu, T. Chartrand, B. Kalmbach, E. Lein, S. Mihalas, Z. Lu

  Submitted to eLife · Preprint available on bioRxiv
• 2026
  Identifying Stochastic Dynamics from Non-Sequential Data (DyNoSeD)

  Z. Lu, Ł. Kuśmierz, S. Mihalas

  Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 36(2)

  Read the DyNoSeD explainer →
• 2025
  SIGMa-DS: System identification from the geometric manifold of dynamical synchronization

  J. Z. Kim, L.-W. Kong, Z. Lu

  Chaos, 35(10)
• 2025
  Hierarchy of chaotic dynamics in random modular networks

  Ł. Kuśmierz, U. Pereira-Obilinovic, Z. Lu, D. Mastrovito, S. Mihalas

  Physical Review Letters, 134(14), 148402
• 2022
  Nonlinear dynamics and chaos in conformational changes of mechanical metamaterials

  J. Z. Kim, Z. Lu, A. S. Blevins, D. S. Bassett

  Physical Review X, 12(1), 011042
• 2022
  Learning continuous chaotic attractors with a reservoir computer

  L. M. Smith, J. Z. Kim, Z. Lu, D. S. Bassett

  Chaos, 32(1), 011101
• 2021
  Teaching recurrent neural networks to infer global temporal structure from local examples

  J. Z. Kim, Z. Lu, E. Nozari, G. J. Pappas, D. S. Bassett

  Nature Machine Intelligence, 3(4), 316–323
• 2020
  Invertible generalized synchronization: A putative mechanism for implicit learning in neural systems

  Z. Lu, D. S. Bassett

  Chaos, 30(6), 063133
• 2020
  Supervised chaotic source separation by a tank of water

  Z. Lu, J. Z. Kim, D. S. Bassett

  Chaos, 30(2), 021101
• 2019
  Conformational control of mechanical networks

  J. Z. Kim, Z. Lu, S. H. Strogatz, D. S. Bassett

  Nature Physics, 15(7), 714–720
• 2018
  Attractor reconstruction by machine learning

  Z. Lu, B. R. Hunt, E. Ott

  Chaos, 28(6), 061104
• 2018
  Model-free prediction of large spatiotemporally chaotic systems from data: A reservoir computing approach

  J. Pathak, B. R. Hunt, M. Girvan, Z. Lu, E. Ott

  Physical Review Letters, 120(2), 024102
• 2017
  Reservoir observers: Model-free inference of unmeasured variables in chaotic systems

  Z. Lu, J. Pathak, B. R. Hunt, M. Girvan, R. Brockett, E. Ott

  Chaos, 27(4), 041102
• 2016
  Resynchronization of circadian oscillators and the east-west asymmetry of jet-lag

  Z. Lu, K. Klein-Cardeña, S. Lee, T. M. Antonsen, M. Girvan, E. Ott

  Chaos, 26(9), 094811

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