Xiangrong Wang (王向荣)

About Me

Xiangrong Wang is a tenure-track assistant professor at Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China. She obtained her PhD degree in 2016 at the Delft University of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Piet Van Mieghem and Prof. Robert E. Kooij. From 2017 to 2018, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at TUDelft, working with Johan Dubbeldam and a visiting scholar at University of Zarogoza and ISI Foundation, working with Prof. Yamir Moreno. From 2019 to 2022, she was a research associate professor at Southern University of Science and Technology.

Her research focuses on broader aspects of complex systems. The aim is to understand the failure propagation in critical infrastructures like transportation and power systems, the diffusive dynamics of information in social networks and the maintenance of biodiversity in ecological systems.

Collaborations: I am always looking for highly self-motivated students, including undergraduate, graduate and PhD candidates, and for research collaborations on topics related to network science.

News

• 26/04/2023: one paper is accepted in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals.
• 26/09/2022: one paper is accepted in Nature Medicine.
• 18/01/2022: one paper ‘Indirect influence in social networks as an induced percolation phenomenon’ is accepted in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).
• 18/06/2021: one paper ‘Optimal compression for bipartite networks’ is accepted in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals.
• 13/01/2021: one paper ‘Unique superdiffusion induced by directionality in multiplex networks’ is accepted in New Journal of Physics.
• 16/08/2019: one paper ‘Directionality reduces the impact of epidemics in multilayer networks’ is accepted in New Journal of Physics.
• 21/12/2018: one paper ‘Structural transition in interdependent networks with regular interconnections’ is accepted in Physical Review E.
• 05/09/2017: one paper ‘Kemeny’s constant and the effective graph resistance’ is accepted in Linear Algebra and its Applications.
• 29/06/2017: Our paper Multi-criteria robustness analysis of metro networks is reported by De Volkskrant (a Dutch daily newspaper).
• 11/07/2017: Invited speaker in the third Delft-Girona workshop on robustness of complex networks, 11 July 2017, TU Delft, the Netherlands.
• 21/12/2016: I succeeded in PhD Defense and obtained my PhD degree in Delft University of Technology.

Publications

(Google Scholar)

Journals

1. W. Pei, W. Xu, Z. Wu, W. Li, J. Wang, G Lu, Xiangrong Wang. Saliency-Aware Regularized Graph Neural Network. Artificial Intelligence, 328, 104078, 2024.

2. Xiangrong Wang , Hongru Hou, Dan Lu, Zongze Wu, Yamir Moreno, Unveiling the reproduction number scaling in characterizing social contagion coverage. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 185, 115119,2024.

3. Xiangrong Wang , Thomas Peron, Johan L. A. Dubbeldam, Sonia Kefi, Yamir Moreno, Interspecific competition shapes the structural stability of mutualistic networks. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 172, 113507,2023.

4. C Xu, Xiangrong Wang (equal contribution), H Hu, H Qin, J Wang, J Shi, Y Hu. A sequential re-opening of provinces for China’s zero-COVID policy. Nature Medicine, 29, 2023.

5. Jiarong Xie, Xiangrong Wang (equal contribution), Ling Feng, Jin-Hua Zhao, Yamir Moreno, Yanqing Hu. Indirect influence in social networks as an induced percolation phenomenon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(9), e2100151119, 2022.

6. Zhaoyue Zhong, Xiangrong Wang, Cunquan Qu, Guanghui Wang. Efficient algorithm based on non-backtracking matrix for community detection in signed networks. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 9(4), 2200-2211, 2022.

7. Shuhong Huang, Xiangrong Wang (equal contribution), Liyang Peng, Jiarong Xie, Jiachen Sun, Yanqing Hu. Optimal compression for bipartite networks. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 151, 111207, 2021.

8. Xiangrong Wang, Alejandro Tejedor, Yi Wang and Yamir Moreno. Unique superdiffusion induced by directionality in multiplex networks. New Journal of Physics, 23(1), 013016, 2021.

9. Xiangrong Wang, Alberto Aleta (equal contribution), Dan Lu, Yamir Moreno. Directionality reduces the impact of epidemics in multilayer networks, New Journal of Physics, 21(9), 093026, 2019.

10. Xiangrong Wang, Robert E Kooij, Yamir Moreno and P. Van Mieghem. Structural transition in interdependent networks with regular interconnections. Physical Review E, 99(1), 2019.

11. Xiangrong Wang, J. L. A. Dubbeldam and P. Van Mieghem. Kemeny’s constant and the effective graph resistance. Linear Algebra and its Applications, vol. 535, pp 231-244, 2017.

12. Xiangrong Wang, Yakup Koç, Sybil Derrible, Sk Nasir Ahmad, Willem JA Pino and Robert E Kooij. Multi-criteria robustness analysis of metro networks. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 474:19-31, 2017.

13. Xiangrong Wang, Robert E Kooij and Piet Van Mieghem. Modeling region-based interconnection for interdependent networks. Physical Review E, 94(4), 2016.

14. Xiangrong Wang, Stojan Trajanovski, Robert E Kooij and Piet Van Mieghem. Degree distribution and assortativity in line graphs of complex networks. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 445:343-356, 2016.

15. Xiangrong Wang, Evangelos Pournaras, Robert E Kooij and Piet Van Mieghem. Improving robustness of complex networks via the effective graph resistance. The European Physical Journal B, 87(9):221, 2014.

Conferences

• Wenjie Pei, Jiyuan Zhang, Xiangrong Wang, Lei Ke, Xiaoyong Shen and Yu-wing Tai.
  Memory-Attended Recurrent Network for Video Captioning.
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019.
• Xiangrong Wang, Ling Feng, Robert E Kooij, and Jose L Marzo.
  Inconsistencies among Spectral Robustness Metrics.
  14th EAI International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, Vietnam, 2018.
• Xiangrong Wang and Piet Van Meighem.
  Orthogonal Eigenvector Matrix of the Laplacian.
  11th International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS), Thailand, 2015.
• Xiangrong Wang, Yakup Koç, Sybil Derrible, Sk Nasir Ahmad and Robert E Kooij.
  Quantifying the robustness of metro networks.
  6th International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability, Japan, 2015
• Xiangrong Wang, Yakup Koc, Robert E. Kooij and Piet Van Mieghem.
  A network approach for power grid robustness against cascading failures.
  7th International Workshop on Reliable Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM), 2015.

PhD Thesis

• Xiangrong wang. Robustness of complex networks: Theory and application, 2016.

Research Experiences

• 04/2018 – 04/2018 ISI Foundation, Italy
  Visiting Scholar
  With Prof. Yamir Moreno

• 10/2017 – 02/2018 Institute of Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), University of Zaragoza
  Visiting Scholar
  With Prof. Yamir Moreno

• 10/2017 - 10/2017 University of Girona
  Visiting scholar supported by COST, RECODIS
  With Prof. Josep L Marzo

Reviewer Experiences

• New Journal of Physics;
• Automatica; Physica A; Transportation Research Part D;
• Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Teaching

• Principles of Automatic Control;
• Object oriented programming with C++;
• Introductory lecture for Performance Analysis, invited by Prof. Piet Van Mieghem;
• Python Programming for Beginners.

Contact

Dr.Xiangrong Wang
Shenzhen University
Email: xiangrongwang88@gmail.com;