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Zhen Wang, Professor
 

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Zhen Wang, Professor

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Research Direction: Artificial IntelligenceReinforcement LearningMulti-Agent GamesPattern Recognition, Networks.

Contact Address: P.O. Box 64, 127 West Youyi Road, Beilin District, Xi'an 710072, Shaanxi, P.R. China

Zip Code: 710072

E-mail: w-zhen@nwpu.edu.cn; zhenwang0@gmail.com; nkzhenwang@163.com

Representative Papers

  • Citation:  31000+ (Augst, 2024)

  • H-index: 74 (Augst, 2024)

  • w-index: 50 (Augst, 2024)

  • *Representing the corresponding author

  • Dongpeng Hou, Chao Gao, Xuelong Li, Zhen Wang*. A Dual-channel Source Localization Framework for Cross-platform Events. the 33st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-24) Accepted.

  • Juan Shi, Chen Chu, Zhen Wang*. A Successful Strategy for Multichannel Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma. the 33st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-24) Accepted.

  • SiyueRen, Shuyue Hu, Xueling Li, Zhen Wang*. Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence: Multidisciplinary Contours and challenges of next-generation AI research and applications. the 33st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-24) Accepted.

  • Shu Yin, Peican Zhu, Lianwei Wu, Chao Gao, Zhen Wang*. GAMC: An Unsupervised Method for Fake News Detection using Graph Autoencoder with Masking. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 38 (AAAI-24) 347.

  • Dongpeng Hou, Chao Gao, Xuelong Li, Zhen Wang*. DAG-Aware Variational Autoencoder for Social Propagation Graph Generation. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 38 (AAAI-24) 8508.

  • Chenjie Mao, Qiaosheng Zhang, Zhen Wang*, Xuelong Li. On the role of general function approximation in offline reinforcement learning. 2024 In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR-24) Accepted. ( selected as Spotlight in ICLR-24)

  • Zhen Wang, Chunjiang Mu, Shuyue Hu, Chen Chu, Xuelong Li. Modelling the dynamics of regret minimization in large agent populations: a master equation approach. Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-22) 534 (2022).

  • Zhen Wang, Zhao Song, Chen Shen, Shuyue Hu. Emergence of punishment in social dilemma with environmental feedback.Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-23) 37 (10), 11708 (2023).

  • Chen Chu, Zheng Yuan, Shuyue Hu, Zhen Wang*. A Pair-Approximation Method for Modelling the Dynamics of Multi-Agent Stochastic Games. the Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 37 (AAAI-23) 5565.

  • Zhen Wang,Marko Jusup, Hao Guo, Lei Shi, Suncana Gecek, Madhur Anand, Matjaz Perc, Chris T Bauch, Jurgen Kurths, Stefano Boccaletti, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber. Communicating sentiment and outlook reverses inaction against collective risks.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (30), 17650 (2020).

  • Chen Chu,Yong Li, Jinzhuo Liu, Shuyue Hu, Xuelong Li, Zhen Wang. A formal model for multiagent Q-learning dynamics on regular graphs.Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial (IJCAI-22) 194 (2022).

  • Zhen Wang, Dongpeng Hou, Chao Gao, Xianghua Li, Xuelong Li. Lightweight source localization for large-scale social networks.Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (WWW-23) 286 (2023).

  • Chen Chu,Yong Li, Jinzhuo Liu, Shuyue Hu, Xuelong Li, Zhen Wang*. A formal model for multiagent Q-learning dynamics on regular graphs.Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial (IJCAI-22) 194 (2022).

  • Zhen Wang, Marko Jusup, Lei Shi, Joung-Hun Lee, Yoh Iwasa, Stefano Boccaletti. Exploiting a cognitive bias promotes cooperation in social dilemma experiments. Nature communications 9 (1), 2954 (2018).

  • Zhen Wang, Zhaoqing Li, Rong Wang, Feiping Nie, Xuelong Li. Large graph clustering with simultaneous spectral embedding and discretization. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 43 (12), 4426 (2020).

  • Xudong Mao,Qing Li, Haoran Xie, Raymond YK Lau, Zhen Wang, Stephen Paul Smolley. Least squares generative adversarial networks. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV-17) 2794 (2017).

  • Zhen Wang, Dongpeng Hou, Chao Gao, Jiajin Huang, Qi Xuan. A rapid source localization method in the early stage of large-scale network propagation. Proceedings of the ACM web conference (WWW-22)1372 (2022).

  • Zhen Wang, Chunyu Wang, Xianghua Li, Chao Gao, Xuelong Li, Junyou Zhu. Evolutionary Markov dynamics for network community detection.IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 34 (3), 1206 (2020).

  • Zhen Wang, Marko Jusup, Ruiwu Wang, Lei Shi, Yoh Iwasa, Yamir Moreno, Jürgen Kurths. Onymity promotes cooperation in social dilemma experiments. Science advances 3 (3), e1601444 (2017).

  • Xuelong Li,Marko Jusup, Zhen Wang*, Huijia Li, Lei Shi, Boris Podobnik, H Eugene Stanley, Shlomo Havlin, Stefano Boccaletti. Punishment diminishes the benefits of network reciprocity in social dilemma experiments.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (1), 30 (2018).

  • Lei Shi,Ivan Romic, Yongjuan Ma, Zhen Wang*,Boris Podobnik, H Eugene Stanley, Petter Holme, Marko Jusup. Freedom of choice adds value to public goods.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (30), 17516 (2020).

  • Hao Guo, Zhao Song, Matjaz Perc, Xuelong Li, Zhen Wang*. Third-party intervention of cooperation in multilayer networks.IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems 53 (11), 6646 (2023).

His researches were broadly highlighted/covered by well-known academic media such as Nature News, LiveScience, Science Daily, Phys. Org, EurekAlert, Yahoo!News, Scientific American, etc.

Representative Awards & Honors

  • the National Innovation Medal

  • the National Five-One Medal

  • the First Class of National Science Award of Ministry of Education, China

  • the National May 4th Medal

  • IASCYS (The International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences) CERTIFICATED TALENT in Systems Thinking and Cybernetics 

  • the EXPLORER Prize

  • Highly Cited Researcher (powered by Clarivate Analytics)

  • the First Class of National Science Award of Shaanxi, China (2 times)

Representative Membership

  • Elected member, Academia Europaea/The Academy of Europe (AE)

  • Elected member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA)

  • Elected member, Global Young Academy (GYA)

  • Fellow, IEEE

  • Fellow, IOP

  • Fellow, AAIA

  • Chief Scientist, National Key Scientific and Technological Innovation Team

  • Chief Scientist, Shannxi Scientific and Technological Innovation Team

  • Invited Full member, SIGMA Xi: The Scientific Research Honor Society

  • Elected member, the National Science Fund of Distinguished Scholars of China

Academic Service

    Editorship:

  • Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence.

  • Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.

  • Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Cognition and Developmental Systems.

  • Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering;

  • Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics;

  • Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems;

  • Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.

  • Associate editor, Neurocomputing.

  • Associate editor, Pattern Recognition Letters.

  • Editor member, Science China: Information Science.

  • Associate editor, Applied Mathematics and Computation;

  • Editor, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals;

  • Associate editor, Frontiers in Physics.

  • Reviewer:

  • The representative journals include Nature, Science, Nature Physics, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Nature Human Behavior, Science Advances, PNAS, IEEE Transactions journals, etc.

  • (Senior) Program Committee member in AAAI, IJCAI, ICML, ICLR, NeurIPs, ECCV, KDD, WWW, etc.

  • The representative projects/funds include National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), National Science Foundation,USA, National Research Foundation of Singapore, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), etc.