Peng Jia (CV)

 

Assistant Project Scientist

Mechanical Engineering Department
University of California Santa Barbara

Contact

Address: 2217 Engineering Bldg II
                 University of California at Santa Barbara
                 Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5070, USA
Phone:      +1 (602) 358-9279
Email:      pjia[at]engineering.ucsb.edu


I am an assistant project scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, working with Francesco Bullo. I graduated from Beijing University of Aero. and Astro. with a Bachelor's degree in Automation in 2001, and got my Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2005. I obtained my Ph. D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McGill University under the supervision of Peter Caines, in 2010. I then spent one year at the University of British Columbia, as a postdoc working with Vikram Krishnamurchy.

Research Interests

My current work primarily revolves around the following topics:

  1. Opinion dynamics and co-evolution social networks

  2. Auctions and their potential applications in decentralized systems

  3. Large population stochastic systems and control

  4. Stochastic games and dynamic global games

  5. Nonlinear control and output regulation

Publications

Working papers

  • P. Jia, N. E. Friedkin, and F. Bullo. "Importance-Friedkin Model on Influence Network Evolution." In preparation.

Journal articles

  • P. Jia, N. E. Friedkin, and F. Bullo. "Opinion dynamics and social power over reducible influence networks." SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, February 2016. Submitted.

  • N. E. Friedkin, P. Jia, and F. Bullo. "A theory of the evolution of social power: Natural trajectories of interpersonal influence systems along issue sequences." Sociological Science, February 2016. To appear

  • P. Jia, N. E. Friedkin, and F. Bullo. "The Coevolution of Appraisal and Influence Networks Leads to Structural Balance." IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, July 2014. Submitted.

  • P. Jia, A. Mirtabatabaei, N. E. Friedkin, and F. Bullo. "Opinion Dynamics and the Evolution of Social Power in Influence Networks." SIAM Review, 57(3), 367–397, 2015.

  • A. Mirtabatabaei, P. Jia, and F. Bullo. "Eulerian Opinion Dynamics with Bounded Confidence and Exogenous Inputs." SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 13 (1), 425-446, 2014.

  • P. Jia and P. E. Caines. "Analysis of Decentralized Quantized Auctions on Cooperative Networks." IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 58 (2), 529-534, 2013.

  • P. Jia and P. E. Caines. "Analysis of Quantized Double Auctions with Application to Competitive Electricity Markets." INFOR, Special Issue on Game Theory in Energy, 48(4), 239-250, 2010.

  • P. Jia and P. E. Caines. "Analysis of a Class of Decentralized Dynamical Systems: Rapid Convergence and Efficiency of Dynamical Quantized Auctions." IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, 27 (3), 329-372, 2010.

  • P. Jia, C. W. Qu, and P. E. Caines. "On the Rapid Convergence of a Class of Decentralized Decision Processes: Quantized Progressive Second Price Auctions," IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, 26 (3), 325-355, 2009.

Conference proceedings and presentations

  • A. Mirtabatabaei, P. Jia, N. E. Friedkin, and F. Bullo. "On the Reflected Appraisals Dynamics of Influence Networks with Stubborn Agents.'' In Proc. 2014 American Control Conference, Portland, OR, USA, June 2014.

  • P. Jia and P. E. Caines. "A Mean Field Games Formulation of Network Based Auction Dynamics." In Proc. 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, December 2013.

  • P. Jia, A. Mirtabatabaei, N. E. Friedkin, and F. Bullo. "Opinion Dynamics, Reflected Appraisal, and the Evolution of Social Influence Networks." In Proc. 2013 American Control Conference, Washington, DC, USA, June 2013.

  • A. Mirtabatabaei, P. Jia, and F. Bullo. "Eulerian Opinion Dynamics with Bounded Confidence and Exogenous Inputs." In IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Santa Barbara, USA, September 2012.

  • P. Jia and P. E. Caines. "Analysis of Decentralized Decision Processes in Competitive Markets: Quantized Single and Double-Sided Auctions." In Proc. 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, USA, December 2010.

  • P. Jia and P. E. Caines. "Auctions on Networks: Efficiency, Consensus, Passivity, Rates of Convergence." In Proc. 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, December 2009.

  • P. Jia and P. E. Caines. "Analysis of Quantized Auctions in Competitive Electricity Markets." Presented at the Third Workshop on Game Theory in Energy, Resources and Environment, Montreal, Canada, December 2009.

  • P. Jia and P. E. Caines. "Equilibria and Convergence of Auctions on Networks." In Proc. International Conference on Game Theory for Networks, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2009.

  • P. Jia and P. E. Caines. "Probabilistic Analysis of the Rapid Convergence of a Class of Progressive Second Price Auctions." In Proc. 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, December 2008.

  • W. Qu, P. Jia and P. E. Caines. "Analysis of Decentralized Decision Processes: Quantized Progressive Second Price Auctions." In Proc. 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, USA, December 2007.

  • P. Jia and J. Huang. "Disturbance Attenuation of the Nonlinear Benchmark System by Approximate Discrete-time Nonlinear H1 Control." In Proc. 24th Chinese Control Conference, Guangzhou, China, 2005.

My profile on Google Scholar and my Curriculum Vitae.