Welcome to my personal academic website! I am an assistant professor at the Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, Peking University. Before joining Peking University, I was a postdoc researcher in the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zurich, working with Prof. Florian Dorfler. I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, under the supervision of Prof. Francesco Bullo.
Email: mei@pku.edu.cn
Office: Room 309, Mechanics Building, College of Engineering, Peking University
Chengfu Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100871, China
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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01/2022: Paper on the relation between local and global structural balance accepted by Automatica!
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12/2021: Paper on meritocratic network formation published and highlighted by Nature Communications!
See media coverage: Nature Asia, Phys.org, 中国新闻网, 新浪科技
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09/2021: I have started my new position at Peking University as an assistant professor!
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05/2021: Invited Talk at Princeton University on the weighted-median opinion dynamics
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02/2021: I am teaching a course on Distributed Systems at ETH Zurich
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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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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: Visit to Politecnico di Torino
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08/2019: Paper on discrete-time dynamics structural balance accepted by Automatica