Northeast Petroleum University | China
Dr. Xuerong Li is an accomplished Associate Professor at the Sanya Offshore Oil & Gas Research Institute, Northeast Petroleum University, recognized for her significant contributions to networked control systems, cyber-physical system security, and advanced state-estimation methodologies. Her research spans piecewise linear and uncertain systems, set-membership filtering, censored measurements, communication-protocol-based estimation, and covert attack detection mechanisms, positioning her as a rising expert in secure intelligent control. She has authored 12 indexed documents, which collectively reflect strong global academic influence, as demonstrated by 376 citations and an h-index of 8, highlighting the consistent impact and quality of her scholarly output. Dr. Li has published in leading international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, Information Sciences, and the Journal of the Franklin Institute, and has contributed actively to major international conferences. Her work has advanced understanding of robust covert attack strategies, distributed filtering under network constraints, and secure estimation for nonlinear and time-varying systems. She has led and participated in multiple national and provincial research grants focused on covert attack design, detection mechanisms, and distributed filtering technologies. Her excellence has been recognized through several academic awards, including top scholarships and distinctions in national mathematical modeling competitions. As an active member of IEEE and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, Dr. Li continues to engage with the international research community, driving innovation in secure and reliable control technologies across cyber-physical and industrial automation systems.
Featured Publications
Li, X., Zhang, P., & Dong, H. (in press). Model reference observer based stealthy covert attack on cyber-physical systems. Journal of the Franklin Institute.
Li, X., Zhang, P., & Dong, H. (2024). A robust covert attack strategy for a class of uncertain cyber-physical systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 69(3), 1983–1990.
Yang, F., Dong, H., Shen, Y., Li, X., & Dai, D. (2024). Protocol-based non-fragile state estimation for delayed recurrent neural networks subject to replay attacks. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 11(1), 249–251.
Li, X., Song, J., Hou, N., Dai, D., & Yang, F. (2023). Finite horizon distributed set-membership filtering with dynamical bias and DoS attacks under binary encoding schemes. Information Sciences, 641, Article 119084.