Personal Profile

Zhen Wang, Professor
Scholar Homepages: [Google Scholar] | [中文版本]
Research Direction: Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Agent Systems, Pattern Recognition, Games, 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: 23087 (November, 2022)
H-index: 63 (November, 2022)
w-index: 40 (November, 2022)
Zhen Wang, Xiaoyue Jin, Tao Zhang, Jiahao Li, Dengxiu Yu, Kang Hao Cheong, CL Philip Chen. Expert System-Based Multiagent Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient for Swarm Robot Decision Making. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (2022) DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2022.3228578.
Jianye Hao, Tianpei Yang, Hongyao Tang, Chenjia Bai, Jinyi Liu, Zhaopeng Meng, Peng Liu, Zhen Wang*. Exploration in Deep Reinforcement Learning: From Single-Agent to Multi-Agent Domain. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2022) Aceepted.
Jia Long, Dengxiu Yu, Guoxing Wen, Li Li, Zhen Wang*, CL Philip Chen. Game-Based Backstepping Design for Strict-Feedback Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems Based on Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2022) DOI: 10.1109/TNNLS.2022.3177461.
Zhen Wang, Zhao Song, Chen Shen, Shuyue Hu. Emergence of Punishment in Social Dilemma with Environmental Feedback Anonymous submission. the Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-23) Accepted.
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 (AAAI-23) Accepted.
Zhen Wang, Chunjiang Mu, Shuyue Hu, Chen Chu, Xuelong Li. Modelling the Dynamics of Regret Minimization in Large Agent Populations: a Master Equation Approach. 2022 the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-22) 524-540.
Chen Chu, Yong Li, Jinzhuo Liu, Shuyue Hu, Xuelong Li, Zhen Wang*. A Formal Model for Multiagent Q-Learning Dynamics on Regular Graphs. 2022 the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-22) 194-200.
Zhen Wang, Dongpeng Hou, Chao Gao, Jiajin Huang, Qi Xuan. A Rapid Source Localization Method in the Early Stage of Large-scale Network Propagation. 2022 In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (WWW) 1372-1380.
Xiangfeng Dai, Xuelong Li, Hao Guo, Danyang Jia, Matjaz Perc, Pouya Manshour, Zhen Wang*, Stefano Boccaletti. Discontinuous transitions and rhythmic states in the D-dimensional Kuramoto model induced by a positive feedback with the global order parameter. Physical Review Letters 125 (2020) 194101.
Zhen Wang*, Marko Jusup, Hao Guo, Lei Shi, Suncana Gecek, Madhur Anand, Matjaz Perc, Chris T. Bauchk, Jurgen Kurths, Stefano Boccaletti, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber. Communicating sentiment and outlook reverses inaction against collective risks. PNAS 117 (2020) 17650-17655.
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 (2022) 1206-1220.
Zhen Wang, Chunyu Wang, Chao Gao, Xuelong Li, Xianghua Li. An evolutionary autoencoder for dynamic community detection. Science China: Information Sciences 63 (2020) 1-16.
Zhen Wang*, Marko Jusup, , Joung-Hun Lee, Lei Shi, Yoh Iwasa, Stefano Boccaletti. Exploiting a cognitive bias promotes cooperation in social dilemma experiments. Nature Communications 9 (2018) 2954.
Xuelong Li, Marko Jusup, Zhen Wang*, H. Eugene Stanley, Shlomo Havlin, Stefano Boccaletti. Punishment diminishes the benefits of network reciprocity in social dilemma experiments. PNAS 115 (2018) 30-35.
Zhen Wang, Marko Jusup, Ruiwu Wang, Lei Shi, Yoh Iwasa, Yamir Moreno, Jurgen Kurths. Onymity promotes cooperation in social dilemma experiments. Science Advances 3 (2017) e1601444.
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
IASCYS (The International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences) CERTIFICATED TALENT in Systems Thinking and Cybernetics
Highly Cited Researcher (powered by Clarivate Analytics)
IOP Trusted Reviewer
First Class of Natural Science Award of Ministry of Education
First Class of Science and Technology Award of Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics
the National Five-Four Prize
the XPLORER Prize
First Class of National Science Award of Shaanxi Province
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, 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 Young Scholars of China
Academic Service
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;
Editor member, Science China: Information Science.
Associate editor, Neurocomputing;
Associate editor, Applied Mathematics and Computation;
Editor, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals;
Associate editor, Frontiers in Physics.
Editorship:
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.
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