Winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars

Peking University, China

Brief Introduction: Long Wang was born in Xi'an, China. He received the bachelor's degree in automatic control from Tsinghua University in 1986, and Ph.D. degree in Dynamics and Control from Peking University in 1992. He has held research positions at the University of Toronto, Canada (1993, with Professor Bruce A. Francis), and the German Aerospace Center, Munich, Germany (1995-1997, with Professor Juergen E. Ackermann). He is currently the Cheung-Kong Chair Professor of Dynamics and Control, and the Director of Center for Systems and Control of Peking University. His research interests include complex networked systems, evolutionary game dynamics, artificial intelligence, and bio-mimetic robotics. Prof. Wang was the recipient of the National Science Prize (twice in 1999 and 2017), Guan Zhaozhi Control Theory Award, Zhang Siying Award in Decision and Control, and the Best Paper Awards for journal publications in Control Theory and Applications, Science China Information Sciences, etc. He has supervised more than 50 Ph.D. students. He has also given a number of plenary lectures at major conferences, including Chinese Control Conference, Chinese Conference on Systems Science, Chinese Conference on Intelligent Automation, etc. Email: longwang@pku.edu.cn

Speech Title: Evolutionary Game-theoretic Approach to Collective Intelligence