Shihao Xie
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I am a 4th year Ph.D. student in Control Engineering and Decision Science at University College Dublin, Ireland. I am supervised by Professor Giovanni Russo from University of Salerno while supported by Professor Robert Shorten (IC London) and Professor Francesco Pilla (UC Dublin).
My research interest is mainly with the control of very-large-scale network systems with applications to e.g. robotic network, neural network. This is motivated by the growing interest in increasing the size of network systems while maintaining their desired performance, despite the presence of e.g. external disturbances, communication delays. We term such property as scalability of a network system.
Please feel free to reach me via my email address, I would be keen on exchanging ideas.
News
News
December 2022. I successfully defended my PhD thesis with the title 'Scalability in multi-agent systems: analysis and control'! (slides available here)
July 2022. I am supposed to graduate in December 2022! I will be willing to chat if you have a research position on systems and control!
July 2022. Attending NecSys22, the IFAC conference on network systems held in ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Our work will be presented in poster session (check this link for poster) .
December 2021. Attending 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, our work will be presented in invited session held by Professor Eduardo Sontag (check this link for slides).
Education
Education
PhD in Control and Decision Science Jan 2019 - Now
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Thesis title: Scalability in nonlinear multi-agent systems affected by delays and disturbances: analysis and control design.
MSc in Autonomous Vehicle Dynamics and Control Sep 2017 - Oct 2018
Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK
BEng in Aircraft Power Engineering Sep 2013 - Jul 2017
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics , Nanjing, China
Publications and preprints
Publications and preprints
2022
Xie, S. and Russo, G., 2022. On the Design of Integral Multiplex Control Protocols for Nonlinear Network Systems with Delays. arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.03535.
Xie, S. and Russo, G., 2022. On the design of scalable networks rejecting first order disturbances. NecSys22, Zurich, Switzerland.
2021
Coraggio, M.*, Xie, S.*, De Lellis, F., Russo, G.# and di Bernardo, M.# 2021, December. Intermittent non-pharmaceutical strategies to mitigate the COVID-19 epidemic in a network model of Italy via constrained optimization. In 2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (pp. 3538-3543). IEEE.
Xie, S., Russo, G. and Middleton, R.H., 2021. Scalability in nonlinear network systems affected by delays and disturbances. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 8(3), pp.1128-1138.
Selected off-campus courses, workshops and presentations
Selected off-campus courses, workshops and presentations
Workshops
Postdoctoral fellowships proposal writing workshop, by Irish Marie Skłodowska Curie Office, 2022.
Distributed learning and multi-agent learning, by IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2021.
Towards a Systems Theory for Optimization Algorithms, by IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2021.
Courses
Lectures on network system, by Professor Francesco Bullo @University of California, Santa Barbara, 2022.
Multi-agent convex optimisation over asynchronous and lossy networks, by Professor Luca Schenato and colleagues @NecSys22, ETH Zurich, 2022.
Numerical methods for optimal control, by Professor Mario Zanon @IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, 2021.
Model predictive control, by Professor Alberto Bemporad @IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, 2021.
Presentations
Poster presentation (check this link for poster) in NecSys22, Zurich, Switzerland, 2022.
Lero doctoral symposium, by Lero, 2019.
Teaching assistant duties
Teaching assistant duties
EEEN20040 Electronic circuits, given by Professor Teerachot Siriburanon @University College Dublin, 2020-2022 (two semesters).
EEEN30110 Signals & systems, given by Professor Paul Curren @University College Dublin, 2020-2021 (two semesters).
EEEN30110 Signals & systems, given by Professor Giovanni Russo @University College Dublin, 2019 (one semester).
Extracurricular Interests
Extracurricular Interests
I do a lot of sports when I am out of office. I played basketball and football years ago while now I play tennis and badminton more. The GOAT for me is Rafael Nadal. I also like cycling (road bike) and it is just amazing to be on the bike feeling the wind blowing. I do a bit of star gazing as well!
The universe we live in
The universe we live in
The star trail took in Cranfield University, Bedford, UK, in August 2018.
The Milky Way spotted in Oulart, County Wexford, Ireland, in August, 2022.
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