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.