Jian Sun

14.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
403 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Jian Sun is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Jian Sun has authored 403 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 212 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 159 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 77 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Jian Sun's work include Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems (129 papers), Neural Networks Stability and Synchronization (87 papers) and Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (76 papers). Jian Sun is often cited by papers focused on Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems (129 papers), Neural Networks Stability and Synchronization (87 papers) and Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (76 papers). Jian Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Jian Sun's co-authors include Jie Chen, Heung‐Yeung Shum, Nanning Zheng, Shuai Liu, Gang Wang, Xiaoou Tang, Hongyi Li, Zejian Yuan, Jingdong Wang and Tie Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

In The Last Decade

Jian Sun

370 papers receiving 9.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Learning to Detect a Salient Object

2010 1.3k citations Jian Sun et al. profile →
Stereo matching using belief propagation

2003 870 citations Jian Sun et al. profile →
Improved delay-range-dependent stability criteria for linear systems with time-varying delays

2009 452 citations Jian Sun, Shuai Liu et al. Automatica profile →
Event-Triggered Adaptive Tracking Control for Multiagent Systems With Unknown Disturbances

2018 313 citations Jian Sun et al. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics profile →
Adaptive Fuzzy Full-State and Output-Feedback Control for Uncertain Robots With Output Constraint

2020 203 citations Wei He, Jian Sun et al. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems profile →
Data-Driven Control of Distributed Event-Triggered Network Systems

2023 95 citations Xin Wang, Jian Sun et al. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Jian Sun	4.3k	3.5k	2.8k	1.6k	1.2k	403	9.9k
Fuchun Sun	5.8k 1.3×	1.9k 0.5×	3.4k 1.2×	2.5k 1.6×	1.1k 1.0×	691	13.4k
Emil M. Petriu	3.1k 0.7×	826 0.2×	1.8k 0.6×	1.9k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	508	8.2k
Haibin Duan	1.8k 0.4×	2.0k 0.6×	3.0k 1.1×	1.9k 1.2×	621 0.5×	346	7.6k
Zeng‐Guang Hou	4.1k 0.9×	3.2k 0.9×	1.7k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	430	10.4k
Long Jin	4.8k 1.1×	843 0.2×	1.9k 0.7×	3.2k 2.0×	749 0.7×	388	9.6k
Marc Moonen	704 0.2×	2.5k 0.7×	628 0.2×	848 0.5×	5.1k 4.4×	695	12.6k
Kok Kiong Tan	4.8k 1.1×	714 0.2×	784 0.3×	683 0.4×	1.1k 1.0×	347	8.0k
Junsong Yuan	1.5k 0.3×	857 0.2×	11.7k 4.2×	4.4k 2.8×	357 0.3×	359	14.6k
Ming Liu	4.8k 1.1×	1.7k 0.5×	379 0.1×	577 0.4×	344 0.3×	187	6.2k
Yun Zhang	5.5k 1.3×	2.7k 0.8×	702 0.3×	974 0.6×	1.5k 1.3×	464	8.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jian Sun

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, J., et al.. (2026). The EasyCog Dataset: Towards Easier Cognitive Assessment with Passive Video Watching. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies. 10(1). 1–28.

Ye, Feng, et al.. (2025). Research on the Digital Twin Polder Area System Driven by Integrating the Xin’anjiang Model and the N‐BEATS Model. International Journal of Intelligent Systems. 2025(1). 2 indexed citations

Li, Feifei, et al.. (2025). Matrix decomposition-based parametrization and singularity-free adaptive control of MIMO nonlinear systems. Automatica. 174. 112129–112129.

Li, Zhuo, et al.. (2024). Continuous advantage learning for minimum-time trajectory planning of autonomous vehicles. Science China Information Sciences. 67(7). 1 indexed citations

Sun, Jian, et al.. (2024). Model‐free learning‐based distributed cooperative tracking control of human‐in‐the‐loop multi‐agent systems. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. 34(11). 7029–7044. 1 indexed citations

Huang, Yi, et al.. (2024). Distributed event-triggered algorithm for convex optimization with coupled constraints. Automatica. 170. 111877–111877.

Xie, Lihua, et al.. (2024). Variance-reduced reshuffling gradient descent for nonconvex optimization: Centralized and distributed algorithms. Automatica. 171. 111954–111954.

Sun, Jian, et al.. (2024). Green landscape 3D reconstruction and VR interactive art design experience using digital entertainment technology and entertainment gesture robots. Entertainment Computing. 52. 100854–100854.

Wang, Zhichuang, Wei He, Gang Wang, & Jian Sun. (2024). Novel Stability Criteria of Asynchronously Switched Nonlinear Neutral Time-Delay Systems. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 54(10). 5963–5972. 5 indexed citations

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Huang, Yi, Ziyang Meng, & Jian Sun. (2024). Distributed Constrained Optimization for Second-Order Multiagent Systems via Event-Based Communication. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems. 54(9). 5317–5326. 3 indexed citations

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Sun, Jian, et al.. (2024). On stability and H_∞ control synthesis of sampled‐data systems: A multiple convex function approximation approach. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. 34(12). 7655–7678.

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Wang, Shenquan, et al.. (2024). Relaxed Stability Criteria for Time-Delay Systems: A Novel Quadratic Function Convex Approximation Approach. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. 11(4). 996–1006. 9 indexed citations

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Sun, Jian, et al.. (2024). Pontryagin’s Minimum Principle-Guided RL for Minimum-Time Exploration of Spatiotemporal Fields. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 36(3). 5375–5387. 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Jian, Youmin Zhang, Chen Hong, Mou Chen, & Qinglei Hu. (2023). Preface: Security and safety in unmanned systems. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. E2023032–E2023032.

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Wang, Gang, et al.. (2023). Data-driven control of consensus tracking for discrete-time multi-agent systems. Journal of the Franklin Institute. 360(7). 4661–4674. 11 indexed citations

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Wu, Jie, Rongni Yang, Jian Sun, & Yanzheng Zhu. (2023). Event-triggered finite-time stabilization of nonlinear switched affine systems under mode-dependent and state-dependent switchings. Control Engineering Practice. 138. 105602–105602. 7 indexed citations

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Pang, Zhong‐Hua, et al.. (2023). Time-varying formation prescribed performance control with collision avoidance for multi-agent systems subject to mismatched disturbances. Information Sciences. 633. 517–530. 17 indexed citations

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Wang, Xin, Jian Sun, Gang Wang, & Lihua Dou. (2022). Improved stability conditions for time-varying delay systems via relaxed Lyapunov functionals. International Journal of Control. 96(6). 1568–1581. 8 indexed citations

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Liu, Che, Rui Wang, Jinghua Liu, et al.. (2021). DialogueCSE: Dialogue-based Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings. Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2396–2406. 17 indexed citations

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Sun, Jian, et al.. (2021). Polymer-Coated Magnetic Microspheres Conjugated with Growth Factor Receptor Binding Peptides Enable Cell Sorting. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. 7(12). 5927–5932. 2 indexed citations

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