Peer Reviewer

  • ​​IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

  • ​​Automatica

  • IEEE Control Systems Magazine

  • Systems & Control Letters

  • IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems

  • SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems

  • IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks

  • Journal of Mathematical Sociology

  • PLOS ONE

  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

  • IEEE Control Systems Letters

  • Royal Society Open Science

  • Physica A

  • IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

  • American Control Conference

  • European Control Conference

Academic Service

Organizer of the 2020 pre-CDC Workshop on "Dynamics in Social and Economic Networks"

Editorial board of The Journal of Mathematical Sociology

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Grant Writing Experience

Assistance in writing the proposal for grant N00014-17-S-F006 funded by the US Army Research Office

  • Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program

  • Title: Dynamic Multi-Layer and Multi-Scale Networks of Heterogeneous Agents

Teaching Assistant Experience

Network Science IGERT Summer Bootcamp, University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Lecture on Graph Theory and Linear Algebra                                                                                                          2016 Summer

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Dynamics                                                                                                                                                                         2017 Spring

  • Control Systems Design                                                                                                                                                 2014 Spring

  • Strength of Materials                                                                                                                                                      2012 Winter

Dept. of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zurich

  • Linear Systems Theory                                                                                                                                             2018, 2019 Fall

  • Game Theory                                                                                                                                                                   2019 Spring

Honors and Awards

  • The People’s Choice Award in the Third Wave Ventures Boya Entrepreneur Contest                                                         2016

  • The Most-Innovative Award in the California China Startup Competition                                                                             2016

  • First Prize in Jiang Ze-Han Cup Mathematical Modeling Contest                                                                                          2010

  • Chun-Tsung Scholars (sponsored by the Nobel Laureate Tsung-Dao Lee), Peking University                                          2010

  • Academic Excellence Award, Peking University                                                                                                     2009 and 2010

  • Starlight International Media Scholarship                                                                                                                               2010

  • Boeing Scholarship for Excellent Student                                                                                                                                2009

  • Suzhou Industrial Park Scholarship                                                                                                                                         2008

Seminal Works in Sociology and Psychology that I have Read and Recommend

[1] D. Kahneman, A. Tversky, "Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk", Econometrica 47(2): 263-292, 1979;

[2] F. Heider, "Attitudes and Cognitive Organization", The Journal of Psychology, 21: 107-112, 1946;

[3] A. Downs, "An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy", Journal of Political Economy, 65(2):135-150, 1957;

[4] L. Festinger, "A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance", California: Stanford University Press, 1957;

[5] J. G.march, "Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning", Organization Science, 2(1): 71-87, 1991;

[6] D. M. Wegner, "Transactive Memory: A Contemporary Analysis of the Group Mind", In B.Mullen & G. R. Goethals  (Eds.), 

     Theories of Group Behavior, 185-205, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1986;

[7] J. Surowiecki, "The wisdom of crowds", New York : Anchor Books, 2005, ISBN: 0-385-72170-6.