Yang Wang

Yang Wang Ph.D. Candidate Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University Advisor: Professor Stephen Boyd

Contact

Packard 243, Stanford, CA 94305
(650) 723-9833
yw224@stanford.edu

Education

• BA, MEng, Engineering, University of Cambridge, Magdalene College, June 2006

Interests and Current Research

• Convex optimization and applications

• Stochastic control

• Model predictive control

• Machine learning

Publications

• Fast evaluation of quadratic control-Lyapunov policy, Y. Wang and S. Boyd, Manuscript in preparation.

• Performance bounds and suboptimal policies for linear stochastic control via LMIs, Y. Wang and S. Boyd, Manuscript in preparation.

• Performance bounds for linear stochastic control, Y. Wang and S. Boyd, Systems and Control Letters, 58(3):178–182, March 2009.

• Fast model predictive control using online optimization, Y. Wang and S. Boyd, To appear, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.

Teaching

Instructor for:

• Convex Optimization I (EE364s), Summer 2009

Teaching assistant (TA) for:

• Introduction to Linear Dynamical Systems (EE263), Autumn 2007 and Autumn 2008

• Linear Dynamical Systems (EE363), Winter 2009

• Convex Optimization I (EE364a), Winter 2008 and Spring 2009

• Convex Optimization II (EE364b), Spring 2008