Xiaodong Cheng
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About Me
I am an assistant professor in Dynamic Systems, Signals, and Control at the mathematical and statistical methods group (Biometris), Wageningen University & Research (WUR).
Before joining WUR, I was a research associate in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge from 2020 to 2022 and a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology from 2019 to 2020. I received my B.S. and M.E. degrees from Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, in 2011 and 2014, respectively, and in November 2018, I was awarded a Ph.D. degree with honors (cum laude) from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen. I am the recipient of the Paper Prize Award from the IFAC Journal Automatica in the triennium 2017-2019 and the Outstanding Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology in 2020.
My main research interests encompass various topics in systems control and machine learning, specifically including data-driven modeling (build predictive models using system identificaiton and deep learning approaches),
model reduction (simplify models of complex dynamic systems for prediction and control), and optimization for control (design control strategy using optimal control and reinforcement learning).
Furthermore, I am also interested in developing solutions for real-world systems such as agricultural systems, microbiological systems, and distributed energy systems.
What's New
August 23 - 25: I attended the twin workshops in Groningen (Five Decades of Systems and Control Theory in Groningen and Workshop Dedicated to Harry Trentelman's Retirement), held at Zernike Campus, Groningen, the Netherlands
August 23 - 25: I attended the 9th Channel Network Conference, held at Wageningen Campus, the Netherlands
June 27: I attended the 4TU.AMI summer event 2023, held at Delft, the Netherlands
March 30: I attended the Symposium in Honour of Karel Keesman, held at Wageningen Campus, The Netherlands
March 21 - 23: I attended the 42nd Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, held at Hotel Mennorode, Elspeet, The Netherlands
Jan. 30 - Feb. 3: I joined the Study Group Mathematics with Industry 2023, at Groningen
Nov. 4: I attended the Math4NL Community Event 2022, at Utrecht, NL
Oct. 1: I start my new position at Wageningen University & Research as a tenure track assistant professor.
Sept. 5 to 9: I visited the Control and Power Research Group at Imperial College London.
July 5: I gave a presentation at the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford.
May 27: Invited by Dr. Shuai Yuan, I gave an online presentation to the researchers at the Harbin Institute of Technology.
April 26 - April 29: I visited the Netherlands, and gave a representation at Biometris of the Wageningen University and Research.
April 7: I gave an online talk to the control group at Imperial College London, UK.
Sept. 1: Congratulations! Shengling Shi, the very first Ph.D. student I co-promoted, has successfully defended his thesis: Topological Aspects of Linear Dynamic Networks: Identifiability and Identification.
July 19 - July 21: I attended the SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications (CT21 Online), where Jacquelien Scherpen and I organized three mini-symposiums on Model Reduction of Complex Dynamical Systems and its Applications.
June 30 - July 2: I attended the 2021 European Control Conference (Online).
May 26: I was invited by Dr. Ning Zhou to give an online talk at the Hebei University of Science and Technology.
Jan 25: I gave an online seminar to ICTEAM at UCLouvain, Belgium.
Jan 7: I become a member of the Trinity College Postdoctoral Society at the University of Cambridge.
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