1. N. Motee. Design parameters selection in multimodel adaptive control. IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, Vol. 3: 1214–1217, May 2000. Note: Finalist, IEEE R8 Best Student Paper Award
2. N. Motee, M.S. de Queiroz, Y. Fang, and D.M. Dawson. Active magnetic bearing control with zero steady-state power loss. In Proceedings, American Control Conference, Vol. 1: 827-832, May 2002.
3. N. Motee and M.S. de Queiroz. Control of active magnetic bearings with a smart bias. In Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Vol. 1: 860-865, December 2002.
5. N. Motee and M.S. de Queiroz. A switching control strategy for magnetic bearings with a state-dependent bias. In Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Vol. 1: 245-250, December 2003.
4. N. Motee and B. Sayyar-Rodsari. Optimal partitioning in distributed model predictive control. In Proceedings, American Control Conference, Vol. 6: 5300-5305, June 2003.
6. A. Jadbabaie, N. Motee, M. Barahona. On the stability of the Kuramoto model of coupled nonlinear oscillators. In Proceedings, In Proceedings, American Control Conference, Vol. 5: 4296-4301, May 2004.
7. N. Motee and A. Jadbabaie. Distributed Receding Horizon Control of Spatially Invariant Systems. In Proceedings, American Control Conference, Pages: 731-736, June 2006. Note: Finalist, Best Student Paper Award.
8. N. Motee and A. Jadbabaie. Stability Analysis of Distributed Receding Horizon Control of Spatially Invariant Systems. In Proceedings, International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Kyoto, Japan, July 2006.
9. N. Motee and A. Jadbabaie. Receding Horizon Control of Spatially Distributed Systems over Arbitrary Graphs. In Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Pages: 3467–3472, December 2006.
10. N. Motee and A. Jadbabaie. Optimal control of spatially distributed systems. In Proceedings of the American Control Conference, New York, Pages: 778-783, July 2007. Note: Winner, Best Student Paper Award and The2008O Hugo Schuck Award for Theory.