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Refereed Journal Publications

The authorship of articles marked with ** is in alphabetical order.

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**A. Nedić, A. Olshevsky, and W. Shi, "Achieving Geometric Convergence for Distributed Optimization over Time-Varying Graphs," to appear in SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2017.
H. Liu, W. Shi, and H. Zhu, "Distributed Voltage Control in Distribution Networks: Online and Robust Implementations," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2017.
H. Liu, W. Shi, and H. Zhu, "Decentralized Dynamic Optimization for Power Network Voltage Control," IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 568-579, 2017.
H. Huang, Q. Ling, W. Shi, and J. Wang, "Collaborative Resource Allocation over a Hybrid Cloud Center and Edge Server Network," Journal of Computational Mathematics, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 421-436, 2017.
A. Mokhtari, W. Shi, Q. Ling, and A. Ribeiro, "A Decentralized Second-Order Method with Exact Linear Convergence Rate for Consensus Optimization," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 507-522 2016.
Q. Ling, Y. Liu, W. Shi, and Z. Tian, "Weighted ADMM for Fast Decentralized Network Optimization," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 64, no. 19, pp. 5930- 5942, 2016.
A. Mokhtari, W. Shi, Q. Ling, and A. Ribeiro, "DQM: Decentralized Quadratically Approximated Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 64, no. 19, pp. 5158-5173, 2016.
Q. Ling, W. Shi, G. Wu, and A. Ribeiro, "DLM: Decentralized Linearized Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 63, no. 15, pp. 4051-4064, 2015.
W. Shi, Q. Ling, G. Wu, and W. Yin, "A Proximal Gradient Algorithm for Decentralized Composite Optimization," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 63, no. 22, 2015. [o(1/k) rate Note 1] [linear rate Note 2]
W. Shi, Q. Ling, G. Wu, and W. Yin, "EXTRA: An Exact First-Order Algorithm for Decentralized Consensus Optimization," SIAM Journal on Optimization, vol. 25, no. 2, 944-966, 2015. [o(1/k) rate is established in Note]
W. Shi, Q. Ling, K. Yuan, G. Wu, and W. Yin, "On the Linear Convergence of the ADMM in Decentralized Consensus Optimization," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 62, no. 7, pp. 1750-1761, 2014.

Conference proceedings

H. Wai, W. Shi, A. Nedić, and A. Scaglione, "Curvature-aided Incremental Aggregated Gradient Method," to appear in Proceedings of the 55th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, 2017.
**A. Nedić, A. Olshevsky, W. Shi, and C. Uribe, "Geometrically Convergent Distributed Optimization with Uncoordinated Step-Sizes," in Proceedings of the ACC, Seattle, 2017.
W. Shi and L. Pavel, "LANA: an ADMM-like Nash Equilibrium Seeking Algorithm in Decentralized Environment," in Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), Seattle, 2017.
Y. Chow, W. Shi, T. Wu, and W. Yin, "Expander Graph and Communication-Efficient Decentralized Optimization", in Proceedings of the 50th ASILOMAR, Pacific Grove, November, 2016.
A. Mokhtari, W. Shi, Q. Ling, and A. Ribeiro, "ESOM: Exact Second-Order Method for Consensus Optimization", in Proceedings of the 50th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ASILOMAR), Pacific Grove, November, 2016.
**A. Nedić, A. Olshevsky, and W. Shi, "Linearly Convergent Decentralized Consensus Optimization over Directed Networks," in Proceedings of the 4th IEEE GlobalSIP, Washington, D.C., December, 2016.
H. Zhang, W. Shi , A. Mokhtari, A. Ribeiro, and Q. Ling, "Decentralized Constrained Consensus Optimization with Primal Dual Splitting Projection," in Proceedings of the 4th IEEE GlobalSIP, Washington, D.C., December, 2016.
**A. Nedić, A. Olshevsky, and W. Shi , "A Geometrically Convergent Method for Distributed Optimization over Time-Varying Graphs," in Proceedings of the 55th IEEE CDC, Las Vegas, December, 2016.
A. Mokhtari, W. Shi , Q. Ling, and A. Ribeiro, "A Decentralized Second-Order Method for Dynamic Optimization," in Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Las Vegas, December, 2016.
H. Liu, W. Shi, and H. Zhu, "Dynamic Decentralized Voltage Control for Power Distribution Networks," in Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE SSP, invited paper, pp. 1-5, Palma de Mallorca, June 2016.
Q. Ling, Y. Liu, W. Shi , and Z. Tian, "Communication-Efficient Weighted ADMM for Decentralized Network Optimization," in Proceedings of the 41st IEEE ICASSP, pp. 4821-4825, Shanghai, March 2016.
A. Mokhtari, W. Shi , Q. Ling, and A. Ribeiro, "Decentralized Quadratically Approximated Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers," in Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), pp. 795-799, Orlando, December 2015.
W. Shi , Q. Ling, G. Wu, and W. Yin, "A Proximal Gradient Algorithm for Decentralized Nondifferentiable Optimization," in Proceedings of the 40th IEEE ICASSP, pp. 2964-2968, Brisbane, April 2015.
W. Shi , Q. Ling, K. Yuan, G. Wu, and W. Yin, "Linearly Convergent Decentralized Consensus Optimization with the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers," in Proceedings of the 38th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 4613-4617, Vancouver, May 2013.
Q. Ling, W. Shi , G. Wu, and Z. Tian, "Sparse FIR Estimation of Low-Order Systems," in Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP), pp. 321-324, Ann Arbor, August 2012.
J. Luo, C. Shi, W. Shi , and Q. Ling, "Joint Node Localization and Error Correction in Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proceedings of the 31st Chinese Control Conference (CCC), pp. 6600-6604, Hefei, July 2012.
W. Shi , Q. Ling, and G. Wu, "Sparsity-Enhanced Linear Time-Invariant MIMO System Identification," in Proceedings of the 23th Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC), pp. 2026-2029, Mianyang, May 2011.

Submitted

**T. Brisimi, R. Chen, T. Mela, A. Olshevsky, I. Paschalidis, and W. Shi, "Federated Learning of Predictive Models from Federated Electronic Health Records," submitted to International Journal of Medical Informatics (under review), 2017.
K. Zhang, W. Shi, H. Zhu, E. Dall’Anese, and T. Basar, "Dynamic Power Distribution System Management With a Locally Connected Communication Network," submitted to IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (under review), 2017.
**A. Nedić, A. Olshevsky, and W. Shi, "Improved Convergence Rates for Distributed Resource Allocation," submitted to Operations Research (under review), 2017.
F. Salehisadaghiani, W. Shi, and L. Pavel, "Distributed Nash Equilibrium Seeking via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers," submitted to Automatica (under revi- sion), 2017.
Z. Li, W. Shi, and M. Yan, "A Decentralized Proximal-Gradient Method with Network Independent Step-Sizes and Separated Convergence rates," submitted to SIAM Journal on Optimization (under review), 2017.
H. Liu, W. Shi, and H. Zhu "Communication-Cognizant Hybrid Voltage Control in Power Distribution Networks," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (under revision), 2017.
K. Zhang, W. Shi, H. Zhu, and T. Basar, "Distributed Equilibrium-Learning for Power Network Voltage Control With a Locally Connected Communication Network," sub- mitted to 2018 IEEE ACC (under review), 2017

Technical Reports

W. Shi, "FIR Estimation of Discrete MIMO Systems," technical report, Institute of Indus- try Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, 2012. [poster]
J. Luo, Q. Ling, W. Shi, K. Yuan, "Sparse Error Correction in Wireless Sensor Node Localization," technical report, Institute of Industry Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, 2012. [poster]

Theses

Ph.D. Dissertation: Decentralized Optimization Algorithms and Convergence Analysis of Networked Multi-Agent Systems (in Chinese), Department of Automation, USTC, May, 2015.
B.E. Thesis: MIMO System Impulse Response Identification Based on Compressed Sensing (in Chinese), Department of Automation, USTC, June, 2010.
Undergraduate Research Thesis: Research of Fogging Image Synthesis (in Chinese), Department of Automation, USTC, May, 2009.

Accepted Abstract Submissions

**A. Nedić, A. Olshevsky, and W. Shi, "A class of decentralized resource allocation algorithms and its connection to consensus optimization," the 21st Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS), Quebec City, July, 2017.
**T. Brisimi, A. Olshevsky, I. Paschalidis, and W. Shi, "A Distributed Optimization Method for Large-Scale Sparse Support Vector Machines with an Application to Healthcare Problems," the SIAM Conference on Optimization, invited, Vancouver, May, 2017.
**A. Nedić, A. Olshevsky, and W. Shi, "A Geometrically Convergent Method For Distributed Optimization Over Time-varying and Directed Graphs," the INFORMS Annual Meeting, invited, Nashville, November, 2016.
**A.Nedić, A.Olshevsky, and W.Shi, "Decentralized Directed Formation Control Based on First-Order Methods," the 6th INFORMS Optimization Society Conference, invited, Princeton, March, 2016.

Invited Talks

**A. Nedić, A. Olshevsky, and W. Shi, "Decentralized Optimization over Time-Varying and Directed Graphs," invited talk at University of Pennsylvania, May 31, 2016.
**A. Nedić, A. Olshevsky, and W. Shi, "A Geometrically Convergent Method for Distributed Optimization over Time-Varying and Directed Graphs," invited talk at University of Toronto, May 18, 2016.
**A. Nedić, A. Olshevsky, and W. Shi, "Decentralized Optimization Over Time-Varying Networks," invited talk at Michigan State University, April 15, 2016.
W. Shi, Q. Ling, G. Wu, and Z. Tian, "FIR Estimation of MIMO systems," International Workshop on Mathematical Issues in Information Sciences (MIIS), invited poster, Xi’an, July 2012.
J. Luo, Q. Ling, W. Shi, and K. Yuan, "Sparse Error Correction In Wireless Sensor Node Localization," International Workshop on Mathematical Issues in Information Sciences (MIIS), invited poster, Xi’an, July 2012.
W. Shi, Q. Ling, and G. Wu, "Collaborative Recommender System Based on Decentralized Low-Rank Matrix Factorization," The 6th Youth Forum on Network New Media, invited report, Chaohu, April 2012.