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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: 30000+ (March, 2024)

  • H-index: 69 (March, 2024)

  • w-index: 50 (March, 2024)

  • 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).

  • 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.