Shaoxuan Cui receives ECC 2026 Outstanding Student Paper Award

Dr. Shaoxuan Cui has been awarded the Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 24th European Control Conference (ECC 2026), held in Reykjavík, Iceland, from July 7 to 10, 2026. The award recognizes his paper, “Markov Chains and Random Walks with Memory on Hypergraphs: A Tensor-Based Approach,” co-authored with Lingfei Wang, Hildeberto Jardón-Kojakhmetov, Karl H. Johansson, and Ming Cao.

At the time of submission, Dr. Cui was a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen, jointly supervised by Prof. Ming Cao from the Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen (ENTEG) and Dr. Hildeberto Jardón-Kojakhmetov from the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence. He completed his PhD in March 2026 and is currently a postdoctoral researcher collaborating with Prof. Cao.

The awarded paper introduces a unified tensor-based framework for modeling Markov chains with memory and random walks on hypergraphs. It provides novel analytical tools for studying the steady-state and convergence properties of complex network processes, addressing both higher-order interactions and memory effects.