Publications

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THESES

  1. Xuan Wang. "Distributed Control and Optimization in Multi-Agent Systems," Ph.D. dissertation, Purdue University, 2020.


JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  1. Xuan Wang, Duy Duong-Tran, and Jorge Cortés. "Data-Driven Stabilization of Unknown Linear-Threshold Network Dynamics," Pending review, arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.19950, 2025.
  2. Yizhi Zhou, Yufan Liu, and Xuan Wang. "Distributed 3-D Multi-Robot Cooperative Localization: An Efficient and Consistent Approach," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 2306-2313, Feb. 2026.
  3. Zechen Hu, Tong Xu, Xuesu Xiao, and Xuan Wang. "CARoL: Context-Aware Adaptation for Robot Learning," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 11, pp. 12063-12070, Nov. 2025.
  4. Dachuan Song, Li Shen, Duy Duong-Tran, and Xuan Wang. "Reconstructing Brain Causal Dynamics for Subject and Task Fingerprints Using fMRI Time-Series Data," Health Information Science and Systems, vol. 13, article 70, 2025.
  5. Yichen Yao, Ryan Mbagna Nanko, Yue Wang, and Xuan Wang. "Distributed Resource Allocation for Human-Autonomy Teaming With Human Preference Uncertainty," IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 9, pp. 2327-2332, 2025.
  6. Al Jaber Mahmud, Amir Hossain Raj, Duc M. Nguyen, Xuesu Xiao, and Xuan Wang. "DARC: Disturbance-Aware Redundant Control for Human-Robot Co-Transportation," Electronics, vol. 14, no. 12, article 2480, 2025.
  7. Xuan Wang, Shaoshuai Mou, and Shreyas Sundaram. "Resilience for Distributed Consensus with Constraints," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 70, no. 10, pp. 6704-6718, 2025.
  8. Xuan Wang and Jorge Cortés. "Efficient Reconstruction of Neural Mass Dynamics Modeled by Linear-Threshold Networks," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 2843-2858, 2025.
  9. Duy Duong-Tran, Ralph Kaufmann, Jiong Chen, Xuan Wang, Sumita Garai, Frederick H. Xu, Jingxuan Bao, Enrico Amico, Alan D. Kaplan, Giovanni Petri, Joaquin Goni, Yize Zhao, and Li Shen. "Homological Landscape of Human Brain Functional Sub-Circuits," Mathematics, vol. 12, no. 3, article 455, 2024.
  10. Xuan Wang, Shaoshuai Mou, and B. D. O. Anderson. "Consensus-Based Distributed Optimization Enhanced by Integral Feedback," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 1894-1901, 2023.
  11. Xuan Wang, Shaoshuai Mou, and B. D. O. Anderson. "Scalable, Distributed Algorithms for Solving Linear Equations via Double-Layered Networks," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 1132-1143, 2020.
  12. Jingqiu Zhou, Xuan Wang, Shaoshuai Mou, and B. D. O. Anderson. "Finite-Time Distributed Linear Equation Solver for Solutions With Minimum l1-Norm," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 1691-1696, 2020.
  13. Xuan Wang, Jingqiu Zhou, Shaoshuai Mou, and Martin J. Corless. "A Distributed Algorithm for Least Squares Solutions," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 64, no. 10, pp. 4217-4222, 2019.
  14. Xuan Wang, Shaoshuai Mou, and Shreyas Sundaram. "A Resilient Convex Combination for Consensus-Based Distributed Algorithms," Numerical Algebra, Control & Optimization, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 269-281, 2019.
  15. Xuan Wang, Shaoshuai Mou, and Dengfeng Sun. "Improvement of a Distributed Algorithm for Solving Linear Equations," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 3113-3117, 2017.
  16. Xuan Wang, Huijun Gao, Okyay Kaynak, and Weichao Sun. "Online Deflection Estimation of X-Axis Beam on Positioning Machine," IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 339-350, 2016.


CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

  1. Lan Shi, Daigo Shishika, and Xuan Wang. "Adapting to Changes in Agent Behavior via Finite-Depth Policy Sensitivity," 2027 American Control Conference (ACC), under review.
  2. Dachuan Song, Chuchu Chen, and Xuan Wang. "Elastic Selective Spectral Hybrids for Train-Once, Export-Many Budgeted Inference," 2027 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), under review.
  3. Al Jaber Mahmud, Shuai Li, and Xuan Wang. "Contact as a Decision Variable: Capability-Tradeoff Contact Selection for Legged Loco-Manipulation," 2027 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), under review.
  4. Al Jaber Mahmud and Xuan Wang. "Geometry-Aligned LLM Fine-Tuning for Sequential Narrow-Opening Planning," 2027 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), under review.
  5. Yanlin Zhou, Manshi Limbu, Xuan Wang, Daigo Shishika, and Xuesu Xiao. "Heterogeneous Team Coordination on Partially Observable Graphs with Restricted Communication," 2027 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), under review.
  6. Manshi Limbu, Xuan Wang, Gregory J. Stein, Daigo Shishika, and Xuesu Xiao. "Forecast-Aware Cooperative Planning on Temporal Graphs under Stochastic Adversarial Risk," 2027 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), under review.
  7. Dachuan Song, Junyu Yin, Zechen Hu, and Xuan Wang. "Mergeable Model-Side Aggregation States for Long-Context Language Models," arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.26448, 2026.
  8. Dachuan Song, Junyu Yin, Zechen Hu, and Xuan Wang. "Elastic Spectral State Space Models for Budgeted Inference," 40th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), accepted, Dec. 2026.
  9. Al Jaber Mahmud and Xuan Wang. "Mutual Adaptation in Human-Robot Co-Transportation with Human Preference Uncertainty," 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Sep. 2026.
  10. Yizhi Zhou, Xuan Wang, and Chuchu Chen. "Analysis of Optimization-Based Monocular Point-Plane VINS: Formulation, Information, and Marginalization," 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), under review.
  11. Yichen Yao, Ryan Mbagna Nanko, Yue Wang, and Xuan Wang. "Distributed Resource Allocation for Human-Autonomy Teaming Under Coupled Constraints," 2025 IEEE 64th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 6156-6161, 2025.
  12. Yizhi Zhou, Ziwei Kang, Jiawei Xia, and Xuan Wang. "CVIRO: A Consistent and Tightly-Coupled Visual-Inertial-Ranging Odometry on Lie Groups," 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 12908-12915, 2025.
  13. Yizhi Zhou, Jie Xu, Jiawei Xia, Zechen Hu, Weizi Li, and Xuan Wang. "Robust Online Calibration for UWB-Aided Visual-Inertial Navigation with Bias Correction," 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 17956-17963, 2025.
  14. Al Jaber Mahmud, Amir Hossain Raj, Duc M. Nguyen, Weizi Li, Xuesu Xiao, and Xuan Wang. "Human-Robot Co-Transportation Using Disturbance-Aware MPC with Pose Optimization," 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 5214-5220, 2025.
  15. Iftekharul Islam, Weizi Li, Xuan Wang, Shuai Li, and Kevin Heaslip. "Heterogeneous Mixed Traffic Control and Coordination," 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 8261-8267, 2025.
  16. Bibek Poudel, Xuan Wang, Weizi Li, Lei Zhu, and Kevin Heaslip. "Joint Pedestrian and Vehicle Traffic Optimization in Urban Environments Using Reinforcement Learning," 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 13769-13776, 2025.
  17. Chandra Raskoti, Iftekharul Islam, Xuan Wang, and Weizi Li. "MIAT: Maneuver-Intention-Aware Transformer for Spatio-Temporal Trajectory Prediction," 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 10131-10137, 2025.
  18. James Berneburg, Xuan Wang, Xuesu Xiao, and Daigo Shishika. "Multi-Robot Coordination Induced in an Adversarial Graph-Traversal Game," 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 3915-3922, 2025.
  19. Yizhi Zhou and Xuan Wang. "Consistent Cooperative Visual-Inertial Navigation Based on Matrix Lie Group," 2025 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 1204-1209, 2025.
  20. Yizhi Zhou, Yufan Liu, P. Zhu, and Xuan Wang. "Distributed Invariant Kalman Filter for Cooperative Localization using Matrix Lie Groups," arXiv preprint, 2024.
  21. Dachuan Song, Li Shen, Duy Duong-Tran, and Xuan Wang. "Causality-Based Subject and Task Fingerprints Using fMRI Time-Series Data," Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics, pp. 1-10, 2024.
  22. Manshi Limbu, Zechen Hu, Xuan Wang, Daigo Shishika, and Xuesu Xiao. "Scaling Team Coordination on Graphs with Reinforcement Learning," 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 16538-16544, 2024.
  23. Yizhi Zhou, Wanxin Jin, and Xuan Wang. "D3G: Learning Multi-Robot Coordination from Demonstrations," 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 8898-8904, 2024. Selected 15-minute oral presentation.
  24. Zechen Hu, Manshi Limbu, Daigo Shishika, Xuesu Xiao, and Xuan Wang. "Learning Coordinated Maneuver in Adversarial Environments," 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 10740-10745, 2024. Selected 15-minute oral presentation.
  25. Zechen Hu, Daigo Shishika, Xuesu Xiao, and Xuan Wang. "Bi-CL: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Robots Coordination Through Bi-Level Optimization," 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 581-586, 2024.
  26. Yanlin Zhou, Manshi Limbu, Gregory J. Stein, Xuan Wang, Daigo Shishika, and Xuesu Xiao. "Team Coordination on Graphs: Problem, Analysis, and Algorithms," 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 5748-5755, 2024.
  27. Yizhi Zhou, Yufan Liu, and Xuan Wang. "Distributed Estimation for a 3-D Moving Target in Quaternion Space with Unknown Correlation," 2024 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), pp. 394-399, 2024.
  28. Al Jaber Mahmud, Duc M. Nguyen, Filipe Veiga, Xuesu Xiao, and Xuan Wang. "Human Uncertainty-Aware MPC for Enhanced Human-Robot Collaborative Manipulation," 2024 IEEE 7th International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS), pp. 1-6, 2024.
  29. Yizhi Zhou, Cameron Nowzari, and Xuan Wang. "Distributed Multi-Robot Flocking Based on Acoustic Doppler Effect," 2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 6406-6411, 2023.
  30. Zechen Hu*, Manshi Limbu*, Sara Oughourli*, Xuan Wang, Xuesu Xiao, and Daigo Shishika. "Team Coordination on Graphs with State-Dependent Edge Costs," 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 679-684, 2023. Best Paper Finalist on Cognitive Robots. (*Equal contribution.)
  31. Muhammad Umair, Li Shen, Duy Duong-Tran, and Xuan Wang. "Subject and Task Fingerprint Using Dynamics Reconstruction from fMRI Time-Series Data," 2023 Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 2023.
  32. Xuan Wang and Jorge Cortés. "Data-Driven Control of Linear-Threshold Network Dynamics," 2022 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 114-119, 2022.
  33. Xuan Wang and Jorge Cortés. "Data-Driven Reconstruction of Firing Rate Dynamics in Brain Networks," 2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 6463-6468, 2021.
  34. Xuan Wang, Jeffrey Hudack, and Shaoshuai Mou. "Distributed Algorithm with Resilience for Multi-Agent Task Allocation," 2021 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS), pp. 112-117, 2021. Best Paper Award.
  35. Xuan Wang and Shaoshuai Mou. "More Consensus Is Not Always Beneficial," 2020 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 3273-3278, 2020.
  36. Xuan Wang, Shaoshuai Mou, and B. D. O. Anderson. "A Discrete-Time Distributed Algorithm for Minimum l1-Norm Solution of an Under-Determined Linear Equation Set," IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 3278-3285, 2020.
  37. Xuan Wang, Shaoshuai Mou, and Shreyas Sundaram. "Resilience for Consensus-Based Distributed Algorithms in Hostile Environment," 2019 57th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), pp. 7-7, 2019.
  38. Xuan Wang and Shaoshuai Mou. "A Scalable Distributed Algorithm for Least Squares Solutions in Double-Layered Multi-Agent Networks," 2019 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 90-95, 2019.
  39. Xuan Wang, Shaoshuai Mou, and B. D. O. Anderson. "A Distributed Algorithm with Scalar States for Solving Linear Equations," 2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 2861-2865, 2018.
  40. Xuan Wang and Shaoshuai Mou. "A Distributed Algorithm for Achieving the Conservation Principle," 2018 Annual American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 5863-5867, 2018.
  41. Jingqiu Zhou, Xuan Wang, Shaoshuai Mou, and B. D. O. Anderson. "Distributed Algorithm for Achieving Minimum l1-Norm Solutions of Linear Equation," 2018 Annual American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 5857-5862, 2018.
  42. Xuan Wang, Jingqiu Zhou, Shaoshuai Mou, and Martin J. Corless. "A Distributed Linear Equation Solver for Least Square Solutions," 2017 IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 5955-5960, 2017.
  43. Xuan Wang, Shaoshuai Mou, and Dengfeng Sun. "Further Discussions on a Distributed Algorithm for Solving Linear Algebra Equations," 2017 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 4274-4278, 2017.