Xuyang Lou

Professor

Institute of System Engineering

Jiangnan University

Wuxi 214122, China

E-mail: Louxy@jiangnan.edu.cn

Research Interests

● Hybrid dynamical systems

● Neurodynamic optimization

● Complex networks

1. Education Background

● Ph.D. in Control Theory and Control Engineering, Jiangnan University, 2009.12

● B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang Ocean University, 2004.06

2. Professional Positions

Professor

School of Internet of Things Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China. 2017-present

Associate Professor

School of Internet of Things Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China. 2011-2017

Visiting Scholar

Department of Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA.

2014-2015.

Postdoctoral

Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT-SCD), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. 2010.

Visiting Scholar

CSIRO Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences, Adelaide, Australia. 2007-2008.

3. Teaching Experience

Instructor. Undergraduate Course: “Automatic Control Principle.” Department of Automation, Jiangnan University. Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017 and Spring 2018.

Instructor. Undergraduate Course: “Modern Control Theory.” Department of Automation, Jiangnan University. Fall 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017 and Spring 2018.

Instructor. Graduate Course: “Nonlinear Systems.” Department of Automation, Jiangnan University. Fall 2017.

Instructor. Undergraduate Course: “Embeded System Design.” Department of Automation, Jiangnan University. Spring 2013, Fall 2015, Fall 2017.

4. Research Projects

● 2015-2018: Research project “Optimal control and application of coupled neural system based on hybrid modeling” supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61473136) (As a director)

● 2013-2015: Research project “Modeling and analysis of coupled neural systems ” supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. JUSRP51322B) (As a director)

● 2012-2014: Research project “Modeling and analysis of biological neural networks under mesoscale level” supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61104155) (As a director)

● 2010-2012: Research project “On complexity and control problems of genetic regulatory networks” supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. JUSRP11021) (As a director)

5. Patents

● “An optimal space filling design method in high-throughput combinatorial experimentation”, China Patent, Grant No. ZL200910026224.9, April 2011.

● “A secure communication scheme under a chaotic neural network”, China Patent, Grant No. ZL200910029670.5, March 2013.

● “Node layout method of wireless sensor networks based on an adaptive CSA algorithm”, China Patent, Grant No. ZL201210038481.6, June 2014.

● “A reconstruction technique of gene motifs based on memetic algorithm”, China Patent, Grant No. ZL201310525115.8, November 2017.

6. Selected Publications

[1] Xuyang Lou, Y. Li, R. G. Sanfelice. Robust stability of hybrid limit cycles with multiple jumps in hybrid dynamical systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 63, no. 4, pp.1220-1226, 2018.

[2] Xuyang Lou, M.N.S. Swamy. A new approach to optimal control of conductance-based spiking neurons. Neural Networks, vol. 96, pp. 128-136, 2017.

[3] Xuyang Lou, J.A.K. Suykens. Hybrid coupled local minimizers. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 542-551, 2014.

[4] Xuyang Lou, J.A.K. Suykens. Stability of coupled local minimizers within the Lagrange programming network framework. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 377-388, 2013.

[5] Xuyang Lou, Y. Li, R. G. Sanfelice. Existence of hybrid limit cycles and Zhukovskii stability in hybrid systems. 2017 American Control Conference, May 24–26, 2017, Seattle, USA, pp. 1187-1192.

[6] Xuyang Lou, J.A.K. Suykens. Finding communities in weighted networks through synchronization, Chaos, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 043116, 2011.

[7] Xuyang Lou, Zhengxian Jiang. Event-triggered control of spatially distributed processes via unmanned aerial vehicle. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2016, 13:1-9

[8] Q. Ye, Xuyang Lou, L. Sheng. Generalized predictive control of a class of MIMO models via a projection neural network. Neurocomputing, 2017, 234, 192-197.

[9] Xuyang Lou, B. Cui, Delay-dependent criteria for global robust periodicity of uncertain switched recurrent neural networks with time-varying delay, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 549-557, 2008.

[10] Xuyang Lou, B. Cui. Adaptive consensus filters for second-order distributed parameter systems using sensor networks. Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing, 2015, 34(9): 2801-2818.

[11] Xuyang Lou, Q. Ye, B. Cui. Exponential stability of genetic regulatory networks with random delays, Neurocomputing, vol. 73, no. 4-6, pp. 759–769, 2010.

[12] Xuyang Lou, B. Cui. Passive control of uncertain multiple input-delayed systems using reduction method, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, vol. 80, no. 12, pp. 2258-2271, 2010.

[13] Xuyang Lou, B. Cui, Boundedness and stability for integrodifferential equations modeling neural field with time delay, Neural Computation, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 570-581, 2007.

[14] Xuyang Lou, B. Cui, Robust asymptotic stability of uncertain fuzzy BAM neural networks with time-varying delays, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, vol. 158, no. 24, pp. 2746-2756, 2007.

[15] Xuyang Lou, B. Cui, Stochastic exponential stability for Markovian jumping BAM neural networks with time-varying delays, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics-Part B, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 713-719, 2007.