Welcome to my personal academic website! I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zurich and my advisor is Prof. Florian Dorfler. Before joining ETH Zurich, I obtained my PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara. My PhD advisor was Prof. Francesco Bullo.
Email: wmei@ethz.ch
Tel: + 41 - 76 817 29 33
Office: ETL I 13, ETH Zurich, Physikstrasse 3, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Links: Curriculum Vitae, Google Scholar, ORCID
Research Interests
Modeling, analysis and control of network dynamical systems, including but not limited to
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network games and evolutionary dynamics
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dynamics on/of social networks, e.g., opinion dynamics, dynamic structural balance
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distributed optimization
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group decision making and learning
My research statement regarding social network dynamics can be found here.
News and Updates
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02/2021: This September I will join the Depart. Mechanics & Engineering Science, Peking Univerity, as an Assistant Professor!
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12/2020: Welcome to our workshop on social network dynamics at 2020 CDC!
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12/2020: I will organize a session on network epidemics at the 2020 CPHS workshop.
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11/2020: Paper on Non-All-to-All Structural Balance and Appraisal Dynamics submitted to Automatica.
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11/2020: Paper "Mertitocratic Models of Network Formation Processes" submitted.
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11/2020: Paper "Rethinking the Micro-foundation of Opinion Dynamics" submitted.
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05/2020: Invited talk on opinion dynamics at Peking University (remotely)
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05/2020: IEEE Control Systems Letters paper accepted
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11/2019: Invited talk on opinion dynamics at Univ. Padova
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11/2019: Visit to Politecnico di Torino
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08/2019: Paper on discrete-time dynamics structural balance accepted by Automatica
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06/2019: Invited talk on social dynamics at Shanghai Jiaotong University
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06/2018: Officially start working at ETH Zurich!