Mengbin Ye

Curtin University

Mengbin Ye received the B.E. degree (with First Class Honours) in mechanical engineering from the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand in 2013. His Ph.D. degree in engineering was completed under the supervision of Emeritus Professor Brian D.O. Anderson, AC, at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia in 2018. From 2018-2020, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, Netherlands. From 2020 - 2021, he was an Optus Fellow at the Optus–Curtin Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence, Curtin University, Perth, Australia. In 2021, he commenced a four-year Western Australian Premier's Early to Mid-Career Fellowship, hosted by Curtin University at the Centre for Optimisation and Decision Science. He received the J.G. Crawford Prize (Interdisciplinary) in 2018, ANU’s premier award recognising graduate research excellence, and the 2018 Springer PhD Thesis Prize. His current research interests include opinion formation and decision making in complex social networks, epidemic modelling and control, and cooperative control of multi-agent systems.