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Thesis

1. Chordal Sparsity in Control and Optimization of Large-scale Systems (Ph.D. thesis, 2019 European PhD Award)
   Yang Zheng, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, 2019. (The EECI PhD Award is given annually in recognition of the best PhD thesis in Europe in the field of Control for Complex and Heterogeneous Systems)
   

2. Dynamic Modeling and Distributed Control of Vehicular Platoon under the Four-Component Framework (Master thesis)
   Yang Zheng, Department of Automotive Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2015

Preprints

1. Benign Nonconvex Landscapes in Optimal and Robust Control, Part I: Global Optimality
   Yang Zheng, Chih-fan Pai, and Yujie Tang

2. Benign Nonconvex Landscapes in Optimal and Robust Control, Part II: Extended Convex Lifting
   Yang Zheng, Chih-fan Pai, and Yujie Tang

3. Error bounds, PL condition, and quadratic growth for weakly convex functions, and linear convergences of proximal point methods
   Feng-Yi Liao, Lijun Ding, and Yang Zheng

4. An Overview and Comparison of Spectral Bundle Methods for Primal and Dual Semidefinite Programs
   Feng-Yi Liao, Lijun Ding, Yang Zheng

5. Convex Approximations for a Bi-level Formulation of Data-Enabled Predictive Control
   Xu Shang, and Yang Zheng

6. Decentralized Robust Data-driven Predictive Control for Smoothing Mixed Traffic Flow
   Xu Shang, Jiawei Wang, and Yang Zheng

Selected publications

1. Yujie Tang*, Yang Zheng*, Na Li, Analysis of the Optimization Landscape of Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) Control, Mathematical Programming, accepted, 2023 (* Equal contribution)
   (A short version was accepted at L4DC, 2021),

2. Yang Zheng, Giovanni Fantuzzi, Sum-of-squares Chordal Decomposition for Polynomial Matrix Inequalities, Mathematical Programming, 197, 71–108 (2023).

3. Yang Zheng, Aivar Sootla, Antonis Papachristodoulou. Block Factor-width-two Matrices and Their Applications to Semidefinite and Sum-of-squares Optimization, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 943-958, Feb. 2023. (regular paper)

4. Yang Zheng, Luca Furieri, Maryam Kamgarpour, Na Li. System-level, Input-output and New Parameterizations of Stabilizing Controllers, and Their Numerical Computation, Automatica,140 (2022): 110211. (regular paper)

5. Yang Zheng, Giovanni Fantuzzi, Antonis Papachristodoulou, Chordal and factor-width decompositions for scalable semidefinite and polynomial optimization, Annal Reviews in Control, 2021 (invited paper).

6. Yang Zheng, Giovanni Fantuzzi, Antonis Papachristodoulou, Paul Goulart, and Andrew Wynn. “Chordal decomposition in operator-splitting methods for sparse semidefinite programs.” Mathematical Programming 180, no. 1 (2020): 489-532.

7. Yang Zheng, Luca Furieri, Antonis Papachristodoulou, Na Li, and Maryam Kamgarpour. “On the equivalence of Youla, System-level and Input-output parameterizations.” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2020 (brief paper)

8. Yang Zheng, Giovanni Fantuzzi, and Antonis Papachristodoulou. “Fast ADMM for sum-of-squares programs using partial orthogonality.” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 64, no. 9 (2019): 3869-3876. (brief paper)

9. Yang Zheng, Jiawei Wang, and Keqiang Li. “Smoothing traffic flow via control of autonomous vehicles.” IEEE Internet of Things Journal 7.5 (2020): 3882-3896.

10. Luca Furieri, Yang Zheng, Antonis Papachristodoulou and Maryam Kamgarpour, “Sparsity Invariance for Convex Design of Distributed Controllers,” IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, doi: 10.1109/TCNS.2020.3002429.

Technical Report

1. On Controller Reduction in Linear Quadratic Gaussian Control with Performance Bounds
   Zhaolin Ren, Yang Zheng, Maryam Fazel, and Na Li
   A short version was accepted at L4DC 2023

2. Sample Complexity of Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) Control for Output Feedback Systems
   Yang Zheng*, Luca Furieri*, Maryam Kamgarpour, Na Li
   A short version was accepted at L4DC, 2021 (* Equal contribution)

3. Green Light Optimal Velocity Planning for Eco-driving: Computational Complexity and a Heuristic Algorithm
   Yang Zheng, Biao Xu, Shengbo Eben Li, Jianqiang Wang, and Keqiang Li
   Extended technical report for our conference paper in the 14th Intelligent Transportation Systems Asia Pacific Forum, Nanjing, China, 2015