Core Faculty
Prof. Wenwu Yu
Wenwu Yu received the B.Sc. degree in information and computing science and M.Sc. degree in applied mathematics from the Department of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, in 2010. Currently, he is the Founding Director of Laboratory of Cooperative Control of Complex Systems and the Deputy Associate Director of Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Networked Collective Intelligence, an Associate Dean in the School of Mathematics, and a Full Professor with the Young Endowed Chair Honor in Southeast University, China.
Dr. Yu held several visiting positions in Australia, China, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and USA. His research interests include multi-agent systems, complex networks and systems, distributed optimization, smart grids, intelligent transportation systems. Dr. Yu serves as an Editorial Board Member of several flag journals, including IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Science China Information Sciences, Science China Technological Sciences, etc. He is listed by Clarivate Analytics/Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering.
Prof. Simone Baldi
Simone Baldi received the B.Sc. in electrical engineering, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. in automatic control engineering from University of Florence, Italy, in 2005, 2007, and 2011, respectively. He is professor at School of Mathematics, Southeast University. He was assistant professor at Delft Center for Systems and Control, TU Delft, from 2014 to 2019. He was awarded outstanding reviewer of Applied Energy (2016) and Automatica (2017), and outstanding associate editor for Journal of the Franklin Institute (2023-2024) and IEEE Control Systems Letters (2024). He is a subject editor of International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, a senior editor of IEEE Control Systems Letters, a technical editor of IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, an associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control and IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering. His research interests include adaptive and learning systems with applications in networked systems and intelligent vehicles.
Prof. Di Liu
Di Liu received the Ph.D. degree in Cyber Science and Engineering from Southeast University, China, in 2021, and the Ph.D. degree in Systems and Control from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, in 2022. From 2022 to 2024, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow jointly affiliated with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and UKRI Fellow with Imperial College London, United Kingdom, with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a co-host institution.
Her research interests include learning systems and adaptive control, with applications in intelligent transportation systems, connected and autonomous vehicles, and unmanned multi-domain systems, Low altitute Economy.
PhD Students
Xin Xia
Research: Data-driven control, Autopilot optimization
Kang Yang
Research: Adaptive control, Autonomous driving cooperative control
Jing Li
Research: Intelligent transportation systems, Vehicle microscopic dynamics, Cooperative control
Xiaoting Chen
Research: Adaptive control, Optimal control, Building energy management
Jia Hu
Research: Deep learning, Spatiotemporal prediction, Traffic prediction
Danping Sun
Research: Adaptive control for unmanned systems, Autopilot optimization
Miao Li
Research: Collision avoidance design for mixed traffic, Intelligent vehicle cooperative control
Chu Wang
Research: Autonomous driving, Multimodal vehicle trajectory prediction
Bowen Shen
Research: Differential equations and machine learning, Explainable artificial intelligence
Qiuhao Wen
Research: Intelligent vehicle cooperative control, Reachability analysis
Kaiyue Xing
Research: Robotic arm visual servo control, Robotics and ROS practice
Master Students
Miao Luo
Research: Home automation platform development
Ran Tian
Research: Optimal control, Building energy management
Yan Zou
Research: Adaptive control, Reinforcement learning
Lanqi Ma
Research: Smart energy adaptive control, Smart platform semi-physical simulation
Dongdong Su
Research: Smart energy, Linear quadratic optimal control
Huaizhi Tang
Research: Model adaptive control, Unmanned system semi-physical simulation
Chengshu Jiang
Research: Path integral control
Chunyu Wu
Research: Machine learning, Adaptive control, Autonomous driving systems
Ziyun Zhou
Research: Complex networks and complex systems, Adaptive control and learning systems
Former Students
Peng Li
PhD, Class of 2020
Graduation Destination: Air Force Early Warning Academy
Xiao Min
PhD, Class of 2020
Graduation Destination: School of Internet of Things, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Yajie Zhang
Master, Class of 2019
Graduation Destination: Bank of Communications, Fintech
Zichen Zhang
Master, Class of 2020
Graduation Destination: Bank of Communications, Software Development
Yuchen He
Master, Class of 2020
Graduation Destination: Shandong Aerospace Electronic Technology Institute
Quan Liu
Master, Class of 2020
Graduation Destination: General Office of Huangpu District Committee, Shanghai
Yuna Hao
Master, Class of 2020
Graduation Destination: Patent Examination Cooperation Jiangsu Center, CNIPA
Fanfan Hu
Master, Class of 2021
Graduation Destination: Wenzhou Nanpu Experimental Middle School
Xia Tian
Master, Class of 2021
Graduation Destination: Zhongrun Huagu (Nanjing) Technology Co., Ltd.
Xiangqian Chen
Master, Class of 2021
Graduation Destination: China Electronics Technology Group Corporation No.28 Research Institute
Meijuan Zheng
Master, Class of 2022
Graduation Destination: Qingdao West Coast New District No.9 High School