Curriculum Vitae

Weiming Xiang, Ph.D. Associate Professor School of Computer and Cyber Sciences Augusta University, GA Georgia Cyber Center Riverfront Campus 100 Grace Hopper Lane RV 2815 Augusta, Georgia 30901 Email: wxiang@augusta.edu

Brief Bio: Dr. Weiming Xiang is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Computer and Cyber Sciences at Augusta University. Before joining Augusta University, Dr. Xiang worked as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University (Sep 2016–Jul 2019), and worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (Nov 2015–Aug 2016), a Research Associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (May 2015–Oct 2015). Dr. Xiang completed his Ph.D. at Southwest Jiaotong University in 2014 with a Ph.D. thesis on formal methods for hybrid traffic systems awarded the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation of Southwest Jiaotong University 2014.

Dr. Xiang is an Associate Editor of IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS) (2023–present), an Associate Editor of IET Control Theory and Applications (2020–present), an Associate Editor of Electronics (2021–present), and was an Associate Editor of Neurocomputing (2014–2019), and Associate Editors or PC Members in a number of international conferences in CPS, control, and formal methods. Dr. Xiang received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2022. Dr. Xiang is a Senior Member of IEEE (2017–present).

Research: Dr. Xiang's research interest is developing formal synthesis and verification techniques and software tools for cyber-physical systems (CPS). Dr. Xiang's current research centers on formal methods on safety, security, and reliability of learning-enabled CPS. He is also broadly interested in methods and applications across CPS domains, such as control synthesis, stability analysis, reachable set computation, hybrid systems, power and energy, transportation, fuzzy logic, and neural networks.

Academic and Research Positions

• Associate Professor (08/01/2023/–Present)
  School of Computer and Cyber Sciences
  Augusta University, GA
  

• Assitant Professor (08/01/2019/–07/31/2023)
  School of Computer and Cyber Sciences
  Augusta University, GA
  

• Postdoctoral Research Scholar (August 2016–July 2019)
  Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  Vanderbilt University, TN
  

• Postdoctoral Research Associate (November 2015–July 2016)
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  University of Texas at Arlington, TX
  

• Research Associate (May 2015–October 2015)
  Department of Mechanical Engineering
  University of Hong Kong
  

Education

• Ph.D. (2009–2014)
  Dissertation: Characteristic Analysis for Hybrid Transportation System Based on Switched System Theory
  *Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation of Southwest Jiaotong University 2014
  Institution: School of Transportation and Logistics , Southwest Jiaotong University

• M.Sc. (2005–2007)
  Dissertation: Analysis and Control for a Class of Switched Nonlinear Systems
  *Outstanding Master Dissertation of Nanjing University of Science and Technology 2007
  *Outstanding Master Dissertation of Jiangsu Province 2007
  Institution: Department of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology

• B.E. (2001–2005)
  Institution: Department of Electrical Engineering, East China Jiaotong University

Services for Journals and Conferences

• Associate Editor, IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS), 2023–present.

• Associate Editor, Electronics, 2021–present.

• Associate Editor, IET Control Theory and Applications, 2020–present.

• Senior PC Member, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024.

• Senior PC Member, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023.

• Associate Editor, 4th IFAC Workshop on Cyber-Physical and Human-Systems, 2022.

• PC Member, The 7th International Workshop on Symbolic-Numeric Methods for Reasoning about CPS and IoT (SNR), 2021.

• PC Member (Poster/Demo Session), 23rd ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC), 2020.

• Associate Editor, Neurocomputing, 2014–2019.

• Leading Guest Editor, Special Issue: Recent Advances in Control and Verification for Hybrid Systems, IET Control Theory and Applications, 2018.

• Co-Chair, Regular Session of Switched Systems II, 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2016.

• PC Member, 6th International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing, 2015.

Awards and Honors

• National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2022.

• Top 1% Reviewers in Field of Engineering, Publons, 2018.

• Outstanding Reviewer, Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2017.

• Outstanding Reviewer, Neurocomputing, 2017.

• Outstanding Reviewer, Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, 2016.

• Outstanding Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2015.

• Outstanding Reviewer, Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2015.

• Most Cited Article since 2011, Journal of the Franklin Institute (Ranking No. 1, by Dec. 2016).

• Annual Ph.D. Thesis of Southwest Jiaotong University, 2014.

• Annual Master Thesis of Nanjing University of Science and Technology, 2007.

• Annual Master Thesis of Jiangsu Province, China, 2007.

Sponsored Grants

• Weiming Xiang (PI (Sole)), “CAREER: Enabling Trustworthy Upgrades of Machine-Learning Intensive Cyber-Physical Systems,” Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Program, National Science Foundation (NSF), $498,985, June 2022–May 2027, Role: PI, Duration: 5.00 years.

• Weiming Xiang (Lead PI), Jason Orlosky (Co-PI), “CPS: Small: Data-Driven Modeling and Control of Human-Cyber-Physical Systems with Extended-Reality-Assisted Interfaces,” Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Program, National Science Foundation (NSF), $499,000, September 2022–August 2025, Role: Lead PI, Duration: 3.00 years.

• Weiming Xiang (PI), in collaboration with Prof. Hoang-Dung Tran, “SLES: Foundations of Qualitative and Quantitative Safety Assessment of Learning-enabled Systems,” Safe Learning-Enabled Systems (SLES) Program, National Science Foundation (NSF), $270,913, December 2023–November 2026, Role: PI, Duration: 3.00 years.

• Weiming Xiang (PI (Sole)), “Certifiable and Scalable Security Design for Learning-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems,” Research Scholarship & Creative Activity Grants Program, Augusta University, $30,344, May 2020 - May 2021, Role: PI, Duration: 1.00 year.

• Weiming Xiang (Co-PI), “Special Notice for the Virtual Institutes for Cyber and Electromagnetic Spectrum Research and Employ (VICEROY),” Sub-award from Mississippi State University, through DoD, $299,603.00, June 2021–June 2023, Role: Co-PI (PI: Michael Nowatkowski), Duration: 2.00 years.

• Weiming Xiang (Senior Personnel), “CyberCorps Scholarships for Service: Augusta University Developing Immersive Experiences for Novel Cybersecurity Education,” National Science Foundation (NSF), $3,265,026.00, February 2021–January 2026, Role: Senior Personnel (PI: Michael Nowatkowski), 5.00 years.

Membership

• IEEE Senior Member (2017–)

• ACM Member (2020–)

• TC Member, Technical Committee on Hybrid Systems, IEEE CSS

Review Services

• Panelist, National Science Foundation (NSF), 2021

• Proposal Review, The Fund for Scientific Research-FNRS (F.R.S.-FNRS)

• Applied Mathematics and Computation

• Asian Journal of Control

• Automatica

• Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing

• Control and Intelligent Systems

• IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

• IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Part B: Cybernetics

• IET Control Theory and Applications

• IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information

• International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing

• International Journal of Control

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems

• International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

• International Journal of System Science

• Journal of the Franklin Institute

• Mathematical Problems in Engineering

• Neurocomputing

• Optimal Control, Applications and Methods

• Recent Patents on Electrical and Electronic Engineering

• SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization

• System and Control Letters

• Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control

• IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

• American Control Conference

• IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems

• IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications

Teaching Experiences

• Principles of Computer Programming, Instructor, School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Augusta University, GA, 2020, 2021.

• Introduction to Cybersecurity Engineering, Instructor, School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Augusta University, GA, 2021, 2022.

• Assembly Language Programming, Instructor, School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Augusta University, GA, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.

• Low-Level Programming Language, Instructor, School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Augusta University, GA, 2022, 2023.

• Cyber-Physical Systems, Instructor, School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Augusta University, GA, 2023, 2024.

Publications

• A full list of papers is available here.