Bo Wang
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Bo Wang
Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering, Director, Autonomous Systems and Control Laboratory Email: bwang1@ccny.cuny.edu Links: ORCID, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, LinkedIn |
Biography
Bo Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The City College of New York. He received the M.S. degree in Control Theory and Engineering from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2018 and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University in 2022. Prior to joining CCNY, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on nonlinear control and autonomy, particularly safety-critical control, extremum and source seeking, and cooperative control of networked, nonholonomic, and underactuated robotic systems.
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Research
Safety-Critical Control and Autonomous Systems
Constructive nonlinear control methods for safe stabilization using Lyapunov and barrier functions.
Extremum Seeking and Source Seeking for Autonomous Systems
Nonlinear extremum and source seeking through oscillatory feedback, averaging, and symmetric-product methods.
Networked and Underactuated Robotic Systems
Distributed and cooperative control of heterogeneous, nonholonomic, and underactuated robotic systems.
Research Overview | Publications
Teaching
ME 41100: System Dynamics and Control (Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026, Fall 2026)
ME 59917: Fundamentals of Robotics (Spring 2026)
ME G9900: Robotics: Analysis & Control (Spring 2026)
Other Teaching and Mentoring
ME 59003/59103: Special Projects (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)
ME I0000: Seminars (Fall 2026)
Professional Service
Associate Editor, Journal of Vibration and Control (2025-present)
Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Autonomous Vehicles and Systems (2025-present)
Associate Editor, 2026 Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference (MECC 2026)
Panel Reviewer, National Science Foundation (NSF), CMMI Program, 2025
Member, Graduate and Research Committee, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The City College of New York (2023-present)
News
2026 Jul: Our paper, Finite Boundary-Layer Residence Certificates via Matrosov-Type Auxiliary Functions, has been accepted to the 2026 65th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC).
2026 Jun: Our paper, Decentralized Impulsive Control for Satellite Formation Flying with Attitude Alignment: A Lyapunov-Based Approach, has been accepted to ASME Letters in Dynamic Systems and Control.
2026 May: Our paper, High-Altitude Adaptive Net Power Optimization of Fuel Cell Systems Using Deep Reinforcement Learning, has been accepted to Energy.
2026 Apr: Our paper, Prescribed-Time Sliding Mode Control for Nanopositioning Stages via Extended State Observer, has been accepted to Journal of Vibration and Control.
2026 Mar: Our paper, Decoupled Optimization of a Curved-Beam Compliant Constant Force Mechanism, has been accepted to Engineering Research Express.
2026 Feb: Dr. Wang has been awarded a grant from TREAD Converge to Translate (C2T) program “From Urban Sensing to Safe Autonomy: Safety-Critical CAV Control at Signalized Intersections”, 2026-2027 (Total Award: $57,108, co-PI: Yiqiao Li).
2026 Jan: Serve as an Associate Editor for the 2026 Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference (MECC 2026).
2026 Jan: Dr. Wang has been awarded a grant from the AI Innovation Award Program “AI-Enhanced Robotics and Control Education”, 2026 (Total Award: $22,600).
2025 Nov: Our paper, Further Results on Safety-Critical Stabilization of Force-Controlled Nonholonomic Mobile Robots, has been accepted to ASME Letters in Dynamic Systems and Control (ALDSC).
2025 Oct: Presentation at MECC2025 “Extremum Seeking Control for Antenna Pointing via Symmetric Product Approximation”.
2025 Aug: Serve as an Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Autonomous Vehicles and Systems.
2025 Jul: Presentation at ACC2025 “Safety-Critical Stabilization of Force-Controlled Nonholonomic Mobile Robots”.
2025 Jun: Our paper, Extremum Seeking Control for Antenna Pointing via Symmetric Product Approximation, has been accepted to the 2025 Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference (MECC 2025).
2025 Feb: Serve as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Vibration and Control.
2025 Jan: Dr. Wang has been awarded a grant from the GRTI Round 24 “Markerless Motion Analysis Using High-Speed Cameras”, 2025 (Total Award: $57,860, co-PI: Inigo Sanz-Pena).
2024 Nov: Our paper, Safety-Critical Stabilization of Force-Controlled Nonholonomic Mobile Robots, has been accepted to IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS) and the 2025 American Control Conference.
2024 Nov: Our paper, Decentralized Impulse Control for Multiagent Space Systems, has been accepted to the 2025 IEEE Aerospace Conference.
2024 Oct: Poster presentation at CASTGNY2024 “Safety-Critical Stabilization of Force-Controlled Nonholonomic Robots”.
2024 Jun: Dr. Wang has been awarded a grant from CiPASS STEM Summer Internship Program “Mechanical Design and Control of Mobile Robots”, 2024 (Total Award: $12,700).
2024 Apr: Dr. Wang has been awarded a grant from PSC-CUNY Research Program “Source Seeking Control for Underactuated Robotics”, PSC-CUNY-55, 2024-2025 (Total Award: $6,000).
2024 Apr: Seminar at University of Kentucky “Stabilization and Source Seeking of Underactuated Vehicle Networks”.
2023 Dec: Invited talk at the 2nd International Workshop on Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation and Robotics, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
2023 Dec: Invited talk at the 5th International Outstanding Young Scholars Forum, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences “Source Seeking for Underactuated Vehicles”.
2023 Oct: Seminar at CCNY “Robust Control of Heterogeneous Underactuated Vehicle Networks in Uncertain Environments”.
2023 Aug: Join The City College of New York as an Assistant Professor.