Education Background

B.S., M.S., Department of Mechanics, Peking University, Beijing, China

Ph.D. Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, U.S.A.

Research Areas and Interests

My research interests include control of nonlinear dynamical systems with applications to fluid flows and flight control, modeling and analysis of highway traffic, and modeling of hybrid control systems

Selected Publications

1. Y. Wang, G. Haller, A. Banaszuk, and G. Tadmor ``Closed-Loop Lagrangian Separation Control in a Bluff Body Shear Flow Model'', Physics of Fluids, 15(8), 2251-2266, 2003

2. S. Mitra, Y. Wang, N. Lynch, and E. Feron ``Safety Verification of Pitch Controller for Model Helicopter'', Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, 2003

3. Y. Wang and R. M. Murray``Bifurcation Control of Rotating Stall with Actuator Magnitude and Rate Limits: Part I -- Model Reduction and Qualitative Dynamics'',Automatica, 38, 597-610, 2002

4. Y. Wang S. Yeung, and R. M. Murray ``Bifurcation Control of Rotating Stall with Actuator Magnitude and Rate Limits: Part II -- Control Synthesis and Comparison with Experiments'',Automatica, 38, 611-625, 2002

5. S. Yeung, Y. Wang, and R. M. Murray ``Actuator Rate Limits Evaluation in Nonlinear Control of Rotating Stall Using Axisymmetric Bleed Valve and Air Injection'', AIAA Journal of Propulsion for Power, 16(5), 781-791, 2000