Silun Zhang

Silun Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, affiliated with WASP (Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program) and the Digital Futures Faculty. He holds a Ph.D. in Optimization & Systems Theory from KTH (2019), an M.S. and B.S. in Automation from Harbin Institute of Technology, China. Prior to KTH, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT's Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems (LIDS) and EECS Department (2019–2023), where he collaborated with Prof. Munther Dahleh and contributed to the MIT MicroMasters Program in Statistics and Data Science.

His research focuses on nonlinear control, large-scale complex systems, privacy-preserving algorithms, and risk-averse reinforcement learning. Key areas include control on manifolds (e.g., rigid-body attitude coordination), privacy in federated learning, and moment-based modeling for collective systems. He leads projects such as 'Analysis and Synergy of Hyper-networked Autonomy' and 'Designing Interaction-Aware Multi-Robot Systems.'

Current team members include Georgios Vasileiou (Ph.D.), Lantian Zhang (Postdoc), and Malintha Fernando Chakravarthige (Postdoc). His work is supported by the Wallenberg Foundations and Digital Futures. Open positions are available for motivated Ph.D. students and postdocs.