Yuwen Ma

Yuwen Ma (马煜文) PhD Student Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department University College London (UCL) Supervisors in UCL: Prof Sarah Spurgeon, Dr Boli Chen ⚓ Email: yuwen.ma.24@ucl.ac.uk Curriculum Vitae

Research

My research interests include

• Intelligent Traffic System

• Privacy

• Distributed Stochastic Optimization

• Distributed Control

• Reinforcement Learning

Academic Service

• Reviewer for TAC, TITS, TCNS, L-CSS, CDC, IFAC.

Prospective Collaborator

Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in my research or have questions about my papers ! Looking forward to your email !!

Recent News

• Waiting to update

• An extended version of IFAC 2026 ``To What Extent Can Inherent Communication Noise Guarantee Privacy in Distributed Cooperative Control?`` is now available on arXiv, 2026.07.

• The paper ``Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning with Differential Privacy`` I co-authored has been accepted by CDC, 2026.07.

• The paper ``Can Inherent Communication Noise Guarantee Privacy in Distributed Cooperative Control?`` has been accepted by IFAC, 2026.04.

• My master's thesis was selected for the Graduate Thesis Project of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), 2025.03.

• The paper ``Distributed Finite-Horizon Optimal Control for Consensus with Differential Privacy Guarantees`` has been accepted by CDC, 2025.07.

• The paper ``Reduced-Order Consensus Protocols with Pure Relative Output: Design, Existence, and Dual Results`` has been accepted by TAC, 2025.03.

• My master's thesis was awarded the Best Master's Thesis of 2024 by the Shanghai Association of Automation, 2025.01.