Dr Ye Yuan

Dr. Alberto Carignano (Ph.D., Control Engineering, Cambridge, 2011-2014) Modelling of Circadian Clocks. University of Washington, postdoc researcher.

Dr. Xin Yang (Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Cambridge, 2011-2014) Robust stability analysis and design for IGBT.NUDT lecturer.

Dr. Neave O'Clery (Ph.D., Mathematics, Imperial College, 2011-2013) Graph Theory, Complex Networks. Fulbright researcher at Harvard University.

Andreas Kasis (M.S., Control Engineering, Cambridge) Modelling Huntington's Disease Development in Patients. Now a PhD student in Dr. Lestas' group at Cambridge University.

Publications (* corresponding author)

Working Papers:

W. Pan, Y. Yuan*, W. Dai, T. Ellis, J. Gonçalves, M. Barahona and G. Stan, Learning large-scale complex nonlinear dynamical systems.

Journal Papers:

[J13]Y. Yuan*, K. Glover and J. Gonçalves, On minimal realisations of dynamical structure functions, Automatica, 2015. http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0072.

Dr Ye Yuan

He is the recipient of Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards, Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship, Cambridge Overseas Scholarship, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, Henry Lester Scholarship and a Best Paper Finalist in IEEE ICIA.

3. The code for [J9], [J12] can be downloaded from https://github.com/panweihit, why don't you try this for your own data?

Publications (* corresponding author)

Working Papers:

W. Pan, Y. Yuan*, W. Dai, T. Ellis, J. Gonçalves, M. Barahona and G. Stan, Learning large-scale complex nonlinear dynamical systems.

Journal Papers:

[J12]W. Pan, Y. Yuan*, H. Sandberg, J. Gonçalves and G. Stan, Online fault diagnosis for nonlinear power systems, Automatica, 2015.

[J11]T. Charalambous, Y. Yuan*, T. Yang, W. Pan, C. Hadjicostis, M. Johansson, Distributed finite-time average consensus in digraphs in the presence of time-delays, to appear, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems.

[J10]X. Yang, Y. Yuan*, Z. Long, J. Gonçalves and P. Palmer, Robust stability analysis of active voltage control for high-power IGBT switching by Kharitonov’s theorem, to appear, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.

[J4]L. Shi, Y. Yuan and J. Chen, Finite horizon LQR control with limited controller-system commu- nication, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 58, Issue 7, Page 1835-1841, 2013.

[J3]J. Wu, Y. Yuan, H. Zhang and L. Shi, H ow can online schedules improve communication and estimation tradeoff?, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 61, Number 7, Page 1625-1631, 2013.

[J2]E. Herrero, E. Kolmos, N. Bujdoso, Y. Yuan, M. Wang, M. Berns, G. Coupland, R. Saini, M. Jaskolski, A. Webb, J. Gonçalves and S. Davis, Early F lowering4 recruitment of Early F lowering3 in the nucleus sustains the Arabidopsis circadian clock, the Plant Cell, Volume 24, No. 2, Page 428-443, 2012. (Impact Factor: 10.6)

More information on previously published paper citation may be found on my Personal Webpage and Google scholar page

Research:

Dr Ye Yuan

Personal Webpage: http://www-control.eng.cam.ac.uk/~yy311

He is the recipient of Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards, Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship, Cambridge Overseas Scholarship, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, Henry Lester Scholarship and a Best Paper Finalist in IEEE ICIA.

News: 1. I will be join Claire Tomlin's Group at Berkeley as a postdoctoral scholar.

Current Research Interests: On the unification of System Identification, Control Theory, Optimisation and Machine Learning with applications to the understanding and (re-)design of natural and man-made systems.

Dr Ye Yuan

He is the recipient of Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards, Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship, Cambridge Overseas Scholarship, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, Henry Lester Scholarship and a Best Paper Finalist in IEEE ICIA.

Current Research Interests: On the unification of System Identification, Control Theory, Optimisation and Machine Learning with applications to the understanding and (re-)design of natural and man-made systems.

Yorie Nakahira (Summer visiitng student, Ph.D. Control and Dynamical Systems, Caltech, 2015) System identification and control in neuroscience.

Zuogong Yue(Ph.D., LCSB, 2014-) Granger causality, dynamical structure functions.

Wei Pan (Ph.D., Bioengineering, Imperial College, 2011-) Nonlinear identification using sparse Bayesian learning. Some hedge fund in London.

Dr Ye Yuan

He is the recipient of Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards, Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship, Cambridge Overseas Scholarship, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, Henry Lester Scholarship and a Best Paper Finalist in IEEE ICIA.

Current Research Interests: On the unification of System Identification, Control Theory, Optimisation and Machine Learning with applications to the understanding and (re-)design of natural and man-made systems.

Co-supervised Students:

Publications (* corresponding author)

Dr Ye Yuan

He is the recipient of Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards, Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship, Cambridge Overseas Scholarship, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, Henry Lester Scholarship and a Best Paper Finalist in IEEE ICIA.

Current Research Interests: On the unification of System Identification, Control Theory, Optimisation and Machine Learning with applications to the understanding and (re-)design of natural and man-made systems.

3. Use control and stability theory to show convergence/stability of some ML algorithms (future research).

Publications (* corresponding author)

Working Papers:

More information on previously published paper citation may be found on my Personal Webpage and Google scholar page

Research:

Previous research interest: Systems and Synthetic Biology:

Dr Ye Yuan

Personal Webpage: http://www-control.eng.cam.ac.uk/~yy311

He is the recipient of Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards, Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship, Cambridge Overseas Scholarship, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, Henry Lester Scholarship and a Best Paper Finalist in IEEE ICIA.

Current Research Interests: On the unification of System Identification, Control Theory, Optimisation and Machine Learning with applications to the understanding and (re-)design of natural and man-made systems.

1.2.2 Power Systems: early fault detection and isolation and inverse problems in power system;

3. Use control and stability theory to show convergence/stability of some ML algorithms (future research).

[J13]Y. Yuan, K. Glover and J. Gonçalves, On minimal realisations of dynamical structure functions, Automatica, 2015. http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0072.

[J12]W. Pan, Y. Yuan*, H. Sandberg, J. Gonçalves and G. Stan, Online fault diagnosis for nonlinear power systems, Automatica, 2015.

[J11]T. Charalambous, Y. Yuan*, T. Yang, W. Pan, C. Hadjicostis, M. Johansson, Distributed finite-time average consensus in digraphs in the presence of time-delays, to appear, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems.

[J9]W. Pan, Y. Yuan*, J. Gonçalves and G. Stan, Bayesian approaches to the identification of nonlinear state-space systems, to appear, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

[J8]X. Yang, Y. Yuan, X. Zhang and P. Palmer, Shaping high-power IGBT switching transitions by active voltage control for reduced EMI generation, in press, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.

[J7]W. Kuan, A. Kasis, Y. Yuan, S. Mason, A. Lazar, R. Barker and J. Gonçalves, Modelling the natural history of H untington’s disease progression, in press, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry (Impact Factor: 5.6).

Dr Ye Yuan

News: I am looking for faculty and research positions starting from Fall 2015.

1.1 Application of 1 to build an automated physist;

Publications (* corresponding author)

Working Papers:

W. Pan, Y. Yuan*, W. Dai, T. Ellis, J. Gonçalves, M. Barahona and G. Stan, Learning large-scale complex nonlinear dynamical systems.

Journal Papers:

[J10]X. Yang, Y. Yuan*, Z. Long, J. Gonçalves and P. Palmer, Robust stability analysis of active voltage control for high-power IGBT switching by Kharitonov’s theorem, accepted, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.

[J9]W. Pan, Y. Yuan*, J. Gonçalves and G. Stan, Bayesian approaches to the identification of nonlinear state-space systems, to appear, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

[J8]X. Yang, Y. Yuan, X. Zhang and P. Palmer, Shaping high-power IGBT switching transitions by active voltage control for reduced EMI generation, in press, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.

[J3]J. Wu, Y. Yuan, H. Zhang and L. Shi, H ow can online schedules improve communication and estimation tradeoff?, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 61, Number 7, Page 1625-1631, 2013.

[J2]E. Herrero, E. Kolmos, N. Bujdoso, Y. Yuan, M. Wang, M. Berns, G. Coupland, R. Saini, M. Jaskolski, A. Webb, J. Gonçalves and S. Davis, Early F lowering4 recruitment of Early F lowering3 in the nucleus sustains the Arabidopsis circadian clock, the Plant Cell, Volume 24, No. 2, Page 428-443, 2012. (Impact Factor: 10.6)

[J1]Y. Yuan, G. Stan, S. Warnick and J. Gonçalves , Robust dynamical network structure recon- struction, Special Issue on System Biology, Automatica, Volume 47, Issue 6, Page 1230-1235, 2011.

Research:

Co-supervised Students:

Dr Ye Yuan

News: I am looking for faculty and research positions starting from Fall 2015.

Current Research Interests: On the unification of System Identification, Control Theory, Optimisation and Machine Learning with applications to the understanding and (re-)design of natural and engineered systems.

Publications (* corresponding author)

Working Papers:

W. Pan, Y. Yuan*, W. Dai, T. Ellis, J. Gonçalves, M. Barahona and G. Stan, Learning large-scale complex nonlinear dynamical systems.

Journal Papers:

[J13]Y. Yuan, K. Glover and J. Gonçalves, On minimal realisations of dynamical structure functions, to appear, Automatica. http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0072.

Wei Pan (Ph.D., Bioengineering, Imperial College, 2011-) Nonlinear identification using sparse Bayesian learning.

Previous co-supervised Students:

Jerry Thia (M.S., Control Engineering, Cambridge) Distributed Kalman Filter. Now working in the industry in Singapore.

Dr Ye Yuan

Publications (* corresponding author)

Working Papers:

W. Pan, Y. Yuan*, W. Dai, T. Ellis, J. Gonçalves, M. Barahona and G. Stan, Learning large-scale complex nonlinear dynamical systems.

Journal Papers:

[J13]Y. Yuan, K. Glover and J. Gonçalves, On minimal realisations of dynamical structure functions, to appear, Automatica. http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0072.

Dr Ye Yuan

He is the recipient of Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards, Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship, Cambridge Overseas Scholarship, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, Henry Lester Scholarship and a Best Paper Finalist in IEEE ICIA.

Current Research Interests: On the unification of System Identification, Control Theory, Optimisation and Machine Learning with applications to the understanding and (re-)design of natural and engineered systems.

Working Papers:

Y. Yuan, Y. Mo and R. Murray, Security in feedback control systems: Controller design against known-plaintext attack.

W. Pan, Y. Yuan*, R. Murray, J. Gonçalves, and G. Stan, Identifying biochemical reaction networks using heterogeneous datasets.

More information on previously published paper citation may be found on my Personal Webpage and Google scholar page

Research:

Co-supervised Students:

Dr Ye Yuan

He is the recipient of Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards, Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship, Cambridge Overseas Scholarship, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, Henry Lester Scholarship and a Best Paper Finalist in IEEE ICIA.

Current Research Interests: On the unification of System Identification, Control Theory, Optimisation and Machine Learning with applications to the understanding and (re-)design of natural and engineered systems.

Dr Ye Yuan

Personal Webpage: http://www-control.eng.cam.ac.uk/~yy311

News:

I am in the job market this year (2015), application materials are available by contacting ye.yuan@eng.cam.ac.uk.

1.2.2 Power Systems: early fault detection and isolation and inverse problems in power system;

Publications

W. Pan, Y. Yuan*, R. Murray, J. Gonçalves, and G. Stan, Identifying biochemical reaction networks using heterogeneous datasets.

W. Pan, Y. Yuan, W. Dai, T. Ellis, J. Gonçalves, M. Barahona and G. Stan, Learning large-scale complex nonlinear dynamical systems.

Recent accepted papers (2.2015):

Journal Publications

Dr Ye Yuan

I am in the job market this year (2015), application materials are available by contacting ye.yuan@eng.cam.ac.uk.

1. Inverse problems (PDE, ODE, Hybrid Systems): identifiability (experimental design) and new identification/ fault-detection alogirhtm by unifying methods in SI and ML.

1.2 Application of 1 to biology and power systems:

2. Propose a Bayesian adaptive control scheme with theoritical guarantee.

Publications

Working Papers:

Y. Yuan, Y. Mo and R. Murray, Security in feedback control systems: Controller design against known-plaintext attack.

W. Pan, Y. Yuan, W. Dai, T. Ellis, J. Gonçalves, M. Barahona and G. Stan, Learning large-scale complex nonlinear dynamical systems.

Recent accepted papers (2.2015):

Y. Yuan, K. Glover and J. Gonçalves, On minimal realisations of dynamical structure functions, to appear, Automatica. http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0072.

W. Pan, Y. Yuan*, H. Sandberg, J. Gonçalves and G. Stan, Online fault diagnosis for nonlinear power systems, to appear, Automatica. (* corresponding author)

More information on previously published paper citation may be found on my Personal Webpage and Google scholar page

Previous research interest: Systems and Synthetic Biology:

2.4) Distributed Kalman filter

Dr Ye Yuan

Position: Junior Research Fellow, Darwin College

Personal Webpage: http://www-control.eng.cam.ac.uk/~yy311

He is the recipient of Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards, Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship, Cambridge Overseas Scholarship, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad and Henry Lester Scholarship, Best Paper Finalist in IEEE ICIA.

News:

1.2.1 understand ageing;

1.2.3 inverse problem in power flow;

2. Propose a Bayesian adaptive control scheme with theoritical guarantee.

Publications

Background - Research - Publications

Ye Yuan received his B.Eng. degree (Valedictorian) from the Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 7.2008, M. Phil. and Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Jorge Goncalves from the Department of Engineering, Cambridge University in 10.2009 and 2.2012 respectively. Ye is now a Junior Research Fellow in Darwin College, University of Cambridge and a post-doctoral research associate in Department of Engineering University of Cambridge. Ye was a visiting researcher in Imperial College London (2011-2015), Caltech (2011, 2014, 2015), MIT (2013), Lund, UNM, LCSB and HKUST (2009).

I am in the job market this year (2015), application materials are available by contacting ye.yuan@eng.cam.ac.uk.

1. Network Reconstruction: how to obtain network structure from data;

2. Modelling in systems and synthetic biology;

3. Application of 1 to Plant Science and had successfully predict a new gene and its location in circadian clock.

1) Decentrliased minimal-time consensus algorithm

2.4) Distributed Kalman filter

Dr Ye Yuan

Background

Publications

Dr Ye Yuan

Background - Research - Publications

Office Location: BN4-77

Background

Research Interests

Dr Ye Yuan

Ye Yuan was born on October 1986. He received his B.Eng. degree (Valedictorian) under the supervision of Prof. Yugeng Xi from the Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2008, M. Phil. and Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Jorge Goncalves from the Department of Engineering, Cambridge University in 10.2009 and 2.2012 respectively. Ye is now a Junior Research Fellow in Darwin College, University of Cambridge and a research associate in Department of Engineering University of Cambridge. Ye was a visiting researcher in Imperial College London, Caltech and MIT.

Research Interests

System Identification and Machine Learning

Publications

Background - Research - Publications

Office Location: BN4-77

E-mail: yy311 [at] cam.ac.uk

Research Interests

Publications

Background - Research - Publications

Publications