Introduction

My research concerns fundamental questions in control theory and inverse problems for partial differential equations. I am particularly interested in how controllability, observability, unique continuation, and identifiability are preserved, weakened, or lost under randomness, discretization, and partial observation.

A major part of my work studies the transfer of control and observability mechanisms across different mathematical settings. This includes understanding when deterministic control structures can be lifted to stochastic systems, and when continuous estimates and unique continuation properties remain valid, uniformly and quantitatively, after numerical discretization.

On the inverse-problem side, I study what can be recovered from limited or indirect observations, with emphasis on identifiability and quantitative stability for unknown sources and related structures. More broadly, I am interested in the mathematical boundary between what information a PDE system retains and what is irretrievably lost.

Experience

06.2023 - present

Assistant Professor

School of Mathematics, Southwest Jiaotong University (西南交通大学)

09.2025 - 02.2026

Visiting Scholar

Chair for Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning and Numerics, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

Host Professor: Prof. Dr. DhC. Enrique Zuazua

Education

09.2017 - 06.2023

Ph.D. in Mathematics

Sichuan University

Supervisor: Professor Qi Lü (吕琦)

09.2013 - 06.2017

B.Sc. in Mathematics

Sichuan University

Scholarship

Publications

Books

Inverse Problems for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

Q. Lü, Y. Wang | SpringerBriefs on PDEs and Data Science, Springer Nature Singapore, 2026. ISBN 9789819590476

Articles

scDCL: A multi-view single-cell RNA sequencing clustering method based on dual contrastive learning

L. Gan, H. Meng, Y. Chen, Y. Wang | Computational Biology and Chemistry, (2026), 108998

Exact controllability for a refined stochastic plate equation

Q. Lü, Y. Wang | Chinese Ann. Math. Ser. B, 46(3) (2025), 415–442

Null controllability for fourth order stochastic parabolic equations

Q. Lü, Y. Wang | SIAM J. Control Optim., 60 (2022), 1563–1590

Invited Talks

Inverse problems for stochastic partial differential equations

[Slides]
  • 第34届长江偏微分方程会议, Aug. 22, 2026
  • 第十五届全国反问题、成像及其应用会议暨CSIAM反问题与成像专委会2026年学术年会, May 17, 2026
  • EDP and Applied Mathematics Seminar, Dec. 10, 2025

Controllability of stochastic fourth order partial differential equations

[Slides]
  • The 15th Academic Conference on Mathematical Control Theory and Applications, Nov. 9, 2024
  • 中国工业与应用数学学会系统与控制数学 2024 年学术研讨会, Aug. 18, 2024
  • 中国仿真学会不确定性系统分析与仿真大会, Aug. 3, 2024

Research Grants

Controllability of stochastic plate equations, 2026-2027.

Sichuan Science and Technology Program (No. 2026NSFSC0777)

Controllability of fourth order semilinear stochastic partial differential equations, 2025-2027.

National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 12401589)

Controllability of a fourth-order coupled stochastic parabolic system, 2024-2025.

Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2682024CX013)

Academic Service

Reviewer

Mathematical Reviews / MathSciNet (American Mathematical Society) — reviewer

Journal Refereeing

Applied Mathematics & Optimization Asian Journal of Control Chinese Annals of Mathematics, Series B ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information Inverse Problems Journal of Differential Equations Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications Journal of Systems Science and Complexity Mathematical Control and Related Fields Neural Networks Science China Mathematics SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization Systems & Control Letters

Teaching Experience

Courses Instructed