Title：Assistant Professor

E-mail：xmsun@ustb.edu.cn

Office：Room 828, Ji Dian Xin xi Building

Education：

2012.09-2017.09, Ph.D., Systems Engineering, Boston University

2008.09-2012.06，B.S., Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology

Work Experience：

2019.04-Now,  University of Science and Technology Beijing

2018.04-2019.02  Staples, Inc.

2018.01-2018.03  Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

2017.10-2017.12  Boston University

Research Interests：

Multi-Agent Systems

Non-convex Optimization

Discrete Event Systems

Computer Simulation

Courses：

Selected Publications：

X. Sun*, C. G. Cassandras, and X. Meng, “Exploiting Submodularity to Quantify Near-Optimality in Multi-Agent Coverage Problems”, Automatica,100:349-359, 2019 (Regular Paper)

X. Sun and C. G. Cassandras*, “Optimal dynamic formation control of multi-agent systems in constrained environments”, Automatica, 73:169-179, 2016 (Regular Paper)

X. Sun*, C. G. Cassandras, and X. Meng, “A Submodularity-Based Approach for Multi-Agent Optimal Coverage Problems”, Proc. of the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 4082-4087, 2017

X. Sun* and C. G. Cassandras, “Optimal Dynamic Formation Control of Multi-Agent Systems in Environments with Obstacles”, Proc. of the 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 2359-2364, 2015

X. Sun, C. G. Cassandras*, and K. Gokbayrak, “Escaping local optima in a class of multi-agent distributed optimization problems: A boosting function approach”, Proc. of the 53th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 3701-3706, 2014

Honors & Awards：

2016：Honorable Mention, Poster, BU Graduate Research Symp.,     

2015：IEEE CSS/NSF Student Travel Award 

2015&2014：Division of Systems Engineering Travel Award    

2012：Graduate Teaching Fellowship