I am a Ph.D. candidate in Automatic Control at the Department of Decision and Control Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, supervised by Prof. Dimos V. Dimarogonas. I am also part of the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) AI PhD program. From October to December 2026 I am a visiting researcher at UCLouvain, Belgium, hosted by Prof. Julien M. Hendrickx.

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✉️ Email: nanaw@kth.se

Research interests

• Learning and identification of dynamical systems
• Networked and multi-agent systems, and topology identification
• Learning and control of large-scale dynamical systems
• Biological networked systems

My work focuses on recovering the hidden interaction structure (topology) of networked dynamical systems from data, including networks under partial excitation, time-varying and open multi-agent networks, large-scale networks, and communication structures among immune-cell populations.

News

• Oct 2026: Started a research visit at UCLouvain, Belgium (Oct–Dec 2026), hosted by Prof. Julien M. Hendrickx.
• Aug 2026: Attended the 23rd IFAC World Congress in Busan, Republic of Korea, and gave an oral presentation on topology estimation for open multi-agent systems.
• July 2026: Paper on topology identification of dynamical signed graphs accepted at the European Control Conference (ECC 2026).
• Dec 2025: Attended the 64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and gave an oral presentation on Leader selection and control design for topology estimation of dynamical networks.
• Jun 2025: Presented a poster at Reglermöte 2025 (Swedish Control Conference).
• Jan 2025: Presented a poster at the WASP Winter Conference.
• Dec 2024: Successfully defended my licentiate thesis at KTH, with Prof. Alessandro Chiuso (University of Padova) as opponent.
• Dec 2024: Attended the 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) in Milan, Italy, and gave an oral presentation on Simultaneous Topology Estimation and Synchronization of Dynamical Networks with Time-Varying Topology.
• Sep 2024: Joined the WASP International Study Trip to Italy.
• Sep 2024: Paper Simultaneous Topology Identification and Synchronization of Directed Dynamical Networks published in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems.
• Aug 2024: Joined the WASP Cluster Trip to Silicon Valley, USA.
• Jan 2024: Presented a poster at the WASP Winter Conference.
• Dec 2023: Attended the 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) in Singapore and gave two oral presentations.
• Sep 2023: Joined the WASP International Study Trip to Boston, USA.
• Jan 2023: Presented a poster at the WASP Winter Conference in Norrköping.

Selected publications

• N. Wang, P. Sekercioglu, D. V. Dimarogonas. “Topology Estimation for Open Multi-Agent Systems.” IFAC World Congress, 2026. [arXiv]
• N. Wang, D. V. Dimarogonas. “Leader Selection and Control Design for Topology Estimation of Dynamical Networks.” IEEE CDC, 2025. [DOI]
• N. Wang, E. Restrepo, D. V. Dimarogonas. “Simultaneous Topology Estimation and Synchronization of Dynamical Networks with Time-Varying Topology.” IEEE CDC, 2024. [DOI]
• E. Restrepo, N. Wang, D. V. Dimarogonas. “Simultaneous Topology Identification and Synchronization of Directed Dynamical Networks.” IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2024. [DOI]

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Education

• Ph.D. in Automatic Control, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, 2022 – 2027 (expected)
• WASP AI PhD Program, Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program, 2022 – 2027 (expected)
• M.Phil. in Control Theory and Engineering, Beihang University, China, 2019 – 2022
• B.Eng. in Detection, Guidance and Control Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, 2015 – 2019
• Minor in Law, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, 2016 – 2019

Academic service

• Journal reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems; IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks
• Conference reviewer: IEEE CDC; American Control Conference; IFAC World Congress; European Control Conference

Awards and honors

• Travel Scholarship, Karl Engver’s Foundation
• National Scholarship for Postgraduates, Beihang University
• First-class Academic Scholarship, Beihang University
• Outstanding Graduate, Beihang University