ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Curriculum vitae
Wanting Gao
Electrical & Systems Engineering · Washington University in St. Louis
g.wanting@wustl.edu
Education
Ph.D., Electrical & Systems Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis
Advisor: Prof. Xudong Chen
Co-mentor: Prof. Hong Hu
M.S., Engineering Data Analytics & Statistics
Washington University in St. Louis
B.S. in Management
Jinan University
Major: E-commerce
Research interests
Random graph theory and graphons; probability and convergence rates; statistical inference in noisy networks; structural control theory and signal processing.
Publications & preprints
Wanting Gao, Hong Hu, Xudong Chen. Convergence rate of H-property for step-graphons. To appear at CDC 2026 · arXiv:2604.05138, 2026.
Wanting Gao, Xudong Chen. On the H-property for Step-graphons: The Residual Case. NECSYS 2025 · IFAC-PapersOnLine, 59(4), 7–12, 2025.
Wanting Gao, Xinyi Gao, Yin Tang. Multi-Turn Dialogue Agent as Sales’ Assistant in Telemarketing. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 1–9, 2023.
Honors & awards
Young Author Award finalist
10th IFAC Conference on Networked Systems (NECSYS 2025)
Outstanding Master’s Research Award
Electrical & Systems Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis