Selected Publications

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Koopman operator methods for control and analysis

• Tang, W. (2026). Data-driven domain of attraction estimation via convergent Koopman-Zubov approximation. Automatica, under review.

• Tang, W. (2026). Koopman-Nemytskii operators: A linear representation of nonlinear controlled systems and its learning for controller synthesis. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, under revision.

• Tang, W., & Ye, X. (2026). Koopman operator for stability analysis: Theory with a linear-radial product reproducing kernel. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 331, 282-298 (L4DC 2026).

• Tang, W. (2024). Data-driven bifurcation analysis via learning of homeomorphism. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 242, 1149-1160 (L4DC 2024).

Data-driven state observation and system identification

• Tang, W. (2025). Data-driven state observers for measure-preserving systems. Computers & Chemical Engineering, under review.

• Woelk, M., Morris, J. E., & Tang, W. (2026). Neural Luenberger state observer for nonautonomous nonlinear systems. Journal of Process Control, 163, 103731.

• Woelk, M., & Tang, W. (2026). Identification of noisy Koopman models. Computers & Chemical Engineering, 204, 109366.

• Tang, W. (2023). Data-driven state observation for nonlinear systems based on online learning. AIChE Journal, 69(12), e18224.

Distributed optimization and process control

• Ye, X., & Tang, W. (2025). Optimal construction of data injection attacks on process systems. AIChE Journal, 71(8), e18896.

• Tang, W., Carrette, P., Cai, Y., Williamson, J. M., & Daoutidis, P. (2023). Automatic decomposition of large-scale industrial processes for distributed MPC on the Shell-Yokogawa PACE platform. Computers & Chemical Engineering, 178, 108382.

• Tang, W., & Daoutidis, P. (2022). Fast and stable nonconvex constrained distributed optimization: the ELLADA algorithm. Optimization & Engineering, 23(1), 259-301.

• Tang, W., & Daoutidis, P. (2021). Coordinating distributed MPC efficiently on a plantwide scale: The Lyapunov Envelope algorithm. Computers & Chemical Engineering, 155, 107532.