Supervision

I have been supervising several Ph.D., master and undergraduate students for their research (thesis) projects.

Ph.D. students:

  • Ms. Ying Yu (2024-now) on topic about efficient data-center operation with grid integration.
  • Mr. Wei Hong (2023-now) on topic about quantum computing for power system optimization.
    • Paper: Hong, Wei, Wangkun Xu (corresponding author), and Fei Teng. “Qubit-Efficient Quantum Annealing for Stochastic Unit Commitment.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.15917 (2025).
  • Mr. Le Fang (2023-now) on topic about learning for power system dynamics.

Master students project papers (within the Data Science and Digitalization in Energy Sector here):

  1. A. Pedraza, E. Geirsson, F. Adams, M. Ahmad, N. Dawda, W. Xu, Y. Yu, D. Tuncer, “Assessing land eligibility for solar photovoltaic deployment in the UK,” in the proceedings of 60th International Universities Power Engineering Conference, Sept. 2025.
  2. Anthony, Belcher, Wangkun Xu, et al. “Assessing the Efficacy of IoT-based Forest Fire Detection: a Practical Use Case.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.09117 (2024).
  3. Bunsantrakul, Teeratat, Wangkun Xu, et al. “Poster: Unveiling Urban Emissions from Bangkok Air Monitoring.” Proceedings of the 2024 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference. 2024.
  4. Cano, L. Barrera, Wangkun Xu, et al. “A comparative perspective of data regulation frameworks and their implications for connected vehicles.” Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Joint Workshops on Technologies, Applications, and Uses of a Responsible Internet and Building Greener Internet. 2022.
  5. A. Pedraza, Wangkun Xu, et al., “Assessing land eligibility for solar photovoltaic deployment in the UK,” 2025 60th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC), London, United Kingdom, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/UPEC65436.2025.11279812. [paper link].

UG students thesis project:

  • Ms. Alina Zhu (2024-2025) on topic about machine unlearning. Thesis title: Machine Unlearning via Neural Network Linearization and Influence Functions.
  • Mr. Renwei Liu (2024-2025) on topic about machine unlearning and poisoning attack. Thesis title: Effect of Poisoning Attack on Influence Function and the Performance of Different MU Algorithms.