Professor Weichao Liang

Ph.D. Supervisor

School of Automation Science and Engineering
Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering

National-level Young Talent (China)
Young Top-Notch Talent (Type A) of Xi'an Jiaotong University
IEEE Senior Member

Email: weichao dot liang at xjtu dot edu dot cn

Postal Address: No. 28, Xianning West Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China

Our team operates under the guidance of Academician Xiaohong Guan and Professor Jing Zhang, and is continuously seeking Master's/Ph.D. candidates with backgrounds in: Control Science & Engineering，Mathematics，Physics. We also welcome outstanding undergraduates to engage in research activities. Interested applicants should email their CV to the address above.

2024.02-Present：IEEE CSS Quantum Computing, Systems and Control，Technical committee member

2024.03-2025.03：IEEE ACT Section Control Systems Chapter, Chair

Reviewer: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control, Automatica (Elsevier), Systems & Control Letters (Elsevier), IEEE Control Systems Letters, Journal of the Franklin Institute (Elsevier), Applied Mathematics and Optimization, EPJ Quantum Technology, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, IFAC World Congress, European Control Conference

Languages: Chinese (Native speaker), English (Fluent), French (Fluent).

Sport: Basketball, Climbing (lead/bouldering 7a), Running

Quantum control: Modeling, Analysis and Control of Open Quantum Systems，Quantum Robust Control，Quantum Network Control，Quantum Information

Classical control：Nonlinear and Stochastic Control 

2025.05–present: Professor, School of Automation Science and Technology, Xi'an jiaotong University

2023.11-2025.03: Research Associate, School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia,
Advisors: Valeri Ougrinovski , Matthew R James
2023.04–2023.10: Senior Postdoctoral researcher, Lab MICS, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France,
Collaborators: Gaoyue Guo, Nina Amini
2021.12–2022.12: Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padova, Italy,
Advisor: Francesco Ticozzi
2021.06–2021.11: Visiting Researcher, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France,
Collaborators: Nina Amini, John Gough
2020.01–2021.02: Postdoctoral researcher Department of Mathematics/Lab AGM, CY Cergy Paris Université, Cergy, France,
Advisors: Vojkan Jaksic, Armen Shirikyan

2019.11–2019.12: Postdoctoral researcher, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France,
Advisors: Paolo Mason, Nina Amini

2016.10–2019.10: PhD in Automatic Control, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France,
Subject: Feedback exponential stabilization of open quantum systems undergoing continuous-time measurements
Supervisors: Paolo Mason, Nina Amini 
Committee members of the thesis defense: Pierre Rouchon (Professor, Ecole des Mines de Paris), Hideo Mabuchi (Professor, Stanford University), John Gough (Professor, Aberystwyth University), Michel Bauer (Professor, CEA), Ugo Boscain (Senior researcher, CNRS), Jean-Michel Coron (Professor, Université Pierre et Marie Curie), Clément Pellegrini (Associate Professor, Université Paul Sabatier) 
2014.09–2016.06: Master/Magistère in Control, Signal and Image Processing, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France,

2013.09–2014.06: Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France,

2010.09–2014.06: Bachelor in Telecommunication, XiDian University, Xi'an, China.
 

1. W. Liang, K. Ohki and F. Ticozzi, ``Exploring the robustness of stabilizing controls for stochastic quantum evolutions'', SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, S148-S174, 2025. (arXiv:2311.04428).
2. W. Liang, T. Grigoletto and F. Ticozzi, ``Dissipative feedback switching for quantum stabilization'', Automatica, 165, 111659, 2024. (arXiv:2209.11709).
3. W. Liang and N. Amini, ``Model robustness for feedback stabilization of open quantum systems'', Automatica, 163, 111590, 2024. (arXiv:2205.01961).
4. W. Liang, F. Ticozzi and G. Vallone ``Optimizing measurements sequences for quantum state verification'', Qunatum Information Processing, 2023, 22(419). (arXiv:2307.00881).
5. W. Liang, N. Amini and P. Mason, ``Feedback exponential stabilization of GHZ states of multi-qubit systems'', IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2022, 67(6), 2918-2929. (arXiv:2011.00097).
6. W. Liang, N. Amini and P. Mason, ``Robust feedback stabilization of N-level quantum spin systems'', SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2021, 59(1), 669-692. (arXiv:2007.04211). 
7. W. Liang, N. Amini and P. Mason, ``On exponential stabilization of N-level quantum angular momentum systems'', SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2019, 57(6):3939-3960. (arXiv:1902.05879).