Chao Yang received the B.S. degree in theoretical and applied mechanics from the Department of Mechanics and Science Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2009 and the Ph.D. degree in electronic and computer engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, in 2013. 

Academic Homepage: https://chaoyang2013.github.io/

Research Interests

state estimation in control systems

communication planning in NCSs

privacy preservation in cooperative systems

dynamic programming and optimal control

Selected Journal Papers:

◇[J.6] Wenliang Sheng, Hongxu Zhao, Lingpeng Chen, Guangyang Zeng*, Yunling Shao, Yuze Hong, Chao Yang*, Ziyang Hong, Junfeng Wu.  “BESTAnP: Bi-Step Efficient and Statistically Optimal Estimator for Acoustic-n-Point Problem”. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3558451, 2025.

◇[J.5] Chao Yang, Wen Yang, and Hongbo Shi.  “Communication-saving design by stochastic event triggers”. Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 356, pp. 10532-10546, 2019.

◇[J.4] Chao Yang, Jianying Zheng, Xiaoqiang Ren, Wen Yang, Hongbo Shi, and Ling Shi.  “Multi-Sensor Kalman Filtering with Intermittent Measurements”. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 797-804, 2018.

◇ [J.3] Chao Yang, Junfeng Wu, Xiaoqiang Ren, Wen Yang, Hongbo Shi, and Ling Shi. “Deterministic Sensor Scheduling for Centralized State Estimation Under Limited Communication Resource”. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 63, no. 9, pp. 2336-2348, 2015. (regular paper)

◇[J.2] Chao Yang, Junfeng Wu, Wei Zhang, and Ling Shi, “Schedule Communication for Decentralized State Estimation”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 61, no. 10, pp. 2525-2535, 2013. (regular paper)

◇[J.1] Chao Yang and Ling Shi, “Deterministic Sensor Data Scheduling under Limited Communication Resource”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 59, no. 10, pp. 5050-5056, 2011.

Selected Conference Papers:

◇[C.4] Wenliang Sheng, Zhiyun Zhao, Wen Yang and Chao Yang*, "Localized Privacy Preservation by Innovation Perturbation in a Cooperative LQG Control System", in Proceedings of the 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore, Singapore, 2023.

◇[C.3] Chao Yang, Wen Yang, Jianying Zheng, and Hongbo Shi. “Stochastic Sensor Scheduling for Centralized State Estimation”, in Proceedings of the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Melbourne, Australia, Dec 2017.

◇[C.2] Chao Yang, Wen Yang, and Hongbo Shi. “Majorization Theory in Sensor Scheduling”, in Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Osaka, Japan, Dec 2015.

◇[C.1] Chao Yang, Junfeng Wu, Wei Zhang and Ling Shi, “Communication Topology Design under Limited Bandwidth”, in Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Melbourne, Australia, Jul 2012.