Yang Wen, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor. She received her B.Sc. degree in Mineral Engineering in 2002 and M.Sc. degree in Control Theory and Control Engineering from Central South University in 2005, Hunan, China, and Ph.D. degree in Control Theory and Control Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2009. She was a Visiting Student with the University of California, Los Angeles, from 2007 to 2008. She is a member of IFAC Technical Committee on Large Scale Complex Systems (2017-2022), a member of the Information Fusion Branch of Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2018-2023).

Prof. Yang has devoted herself to the research of fundamental theories and key technologies in information security and collaborative perception of industrial Cyber-Physical Systems for many years. Specifically, her notable achievements include: (i) developing intelligent perception and analysis platforms for energy storage power stations, which have been applied in the largest battery energy storage power station in China; (ii) Designing intelligent inspection robots for large and complex environments, which were exhibited at the 21st China Industrial Expo; (iii) Developing anomaly data detection algorithms for virtual machines based on multivariate analysis, which have been applied on the virtualized director platform of the ZTE Corporation. 

So far, Prof. Yang has published more than 90 SCI/EI indexed articles, owns 4 patents and registered 1 software copyrights. Moreover, she has presided over 19 research projects, including the National Natural Science Project, the joint fund project of the Ministry of education, the military civilian integration cooperation project, etc. In recent years, Prof. Yang has cooperated with companies including China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, State Grid Corporation of China and ZTE Corporation, and her research has been widely used in the industrial field. Given the outstanding contribution she made, Prof. Yang won the second prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award in 2019.

Department: Department of Automation, School of Information Science and Engineering

Address: 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai

Work Phone: 021-64253734

E-mail: weny@ecust.edu.cn

Research Interests:

Information fusion, state estimation, network security, coordinated control, complex networks and reinforcement learning

Professional Services:

member of IFAC Technical Committee on Large Scale Complex Systems

member of the Information Fusion Branch of Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Teaching:

Automatic Control Theory, undergraduate course

Modern control theory and Application, graduate course

Distributed IntelliSense and Security, graduate course

Research Program:

• Jan. 2022 to Dec. 2024, National Science Fund for Outstanding Young Scholars, 62122026, Distributed Collaborative Estimation, Optimization and Security, PI.

• Jan. 2020 to Dec. 2023, NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China) General Program, 61973123, Distributed Security State Estimation for Complex Intelligent Attacks, PI.

• Jan. 2016 to Dec. 2019, NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China) General Program,61573143, Research on Consistent Distributed Network Control and Filtering Optimization Based on Node Selection, PI.

• Sep. 2019 to Sep. 2021, Special Project for Military-Civilian Integration Development of Shanghai (Science and Technology Innovation), Research and Demonstration Application of Key Technologies of Security Intelligent Inspection Robot for Large Indoor Complex Environment, PI.

• Jan. 2019 to Dec. 2020, Joint Fund of the Ministry of Education for Equipment Pre-research (General Fund), Key Technologies for Security State Estimation of Military Distributed Sensor Networks, PI.

Publications:

• Jiayu Zhou, Wen Yang*, Heng Zhang, Wei Xing Zheng, Yong Xu, Yang Tang. Security analysis and defense strategy of distributed filtering under false data injection attacks. Automatica, 2022, 138, 110151. (SCI, Q1)

• Wen Yang*, Dengke Li, Heng Zhang, Yang Tang, Weixing Zheng. An Encoding Mechanism for Secrecy on Remote State Estimation,Automatica, 2020, 120, 109116. (SCI, Q1)

• Wen Yang*, Yu Zhang, Guanrong Chen, Chao Yang, Ling Shi. Distributed Filtering under False Data Injection Attacks, Automatica, 2019, 102, 34-44. (SCI, Q1)

• Wen Yang*, Chao Yang, Hongbo Shi, Ling Shi, Guanrong Chen. Stochastic link activation for distributed filtering under sensor power constraint. Automatica, 2017, 75, 109-118. (SCI, Q1)

• Wen Yang*, Zidong Wang, Zongyu Zuo, Chao Yang, Hongbo Shi. Nodes selection strategy in cooperative tracking problem. Automatica, 2016, 74, 118-125. (SCI, Q1)

• Wen Yang*, Guanrong Chen, Xiaofan Wang, Ling Shi. Stochastic sensor activation for distributed state estimation over a sensor network. Automatica, 2014, 50(8), 2070-2076. (SCI, Q1) 

• Jiayu Zhou, Wen Yang*, Wenjie Ding, Wei Xing Zheng, Yong Xu. Watermarking-based protection strategy against stealthy integrity attack on distributed state estimation, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2022, DOI:10.1109/TAC.2022.3171422. (SCI, Q1)

• Jiayu Zhou, Wenjie Ding, Wen Yang*.A secure encoding mechanism against deception attacks on multi-sensor remote state estimation. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2022, 17, 1959-1969. (SCI, Q1)

• Wenjie Ding, Wen Yang*, Jiayu Zhou, Ling Shi, Guanrong Chen. Privacy preserving via secure summation in distributed Kalman filtering. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2022, DOI:10.1109/TCNS.2022.3155109 (SCI, Q2)

• Yue Luo, Jiayu Zhou, Wen Yang*. Distributed state estimation with colored noises. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 2022, 69(6), 2807-2811. (SCI, Q2)

• Wen Yang*, Weijie Luo, Xinting Zhang. Distributed secure state estimation under stochastic linear attacks. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2021, 8(3), 2036-2047. (SCI, Q1)

• Yuanyuan Xia, Shuangping Su, Housheng Su, Xinting Zhang, Weijie Luo. Wen Yang*. Detection of data integrity attacks in distributed state estimation. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2021, 51(12), 7735-7744. (SCI, Q1)

• Wen Yang*, Xinting Zhang, Weijie Luo, Zongyu Zuo. Detection against randomly occurring complex attacks on distributed state estimation. Information Science, 2021, 547(8), 539-552. (SCI, Q1)

• Wen Yang*, Ziqian Zheng, Guanrong Chen, Yang Tang, Xiaofan Wang. Security analysis of a distributed networked system under eavesdropping attacks. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 2020, 67(7), 1254-1258. (SCI, Q2)

• Wen Yang*, Yu Zhang, Chao Yang, Zongyu Zuo, Xiaofan Wang. Online power scheduling for distributed filtering over an energy-limited sensor network. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2018, 65(5), 4216-4226. (SCI, Q1)