Ming Cao

17.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
485 papers, 12.2k citations indexed

About

Ming Cao is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Control and Systems Engineering and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ming Cao has authored 485 papers receiving a total of 12.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 187 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 86 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 65 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Ming Cao's work include Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (142 papers), Neural Networks Stability and Synchronization (56 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (51 papers). Ming Cao is often cited by papers focused on Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (142 papers), Neural Networks Stability and Synchronization (56 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (51 papers). Ming Cao collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, China and United States. Ming Cao's co-authors include Guanrong Chen, Wenwu Yu, Brian D. O. Anderson, A. Stephen Morse, Weiguo Xia, Jürgen Kurths, Changbin Yu, Pouria Ramazi, Héctor García de Marina and Karl Henrik Johansson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ming Cao

448 papers receiving 11.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Some necessary and sufficient conditions for second-order consensus in multi-agent dynamical systems

2010 1.1k citations Ming Cao et al. Automatica profile →
Second-Order Consensus for Multiagent Systems With Directed Topologies and Nonlinear Dynamics

2009 889 citations Ming Cao et al. profile →
Proceedings of the 2008 American Control Conference

2008 672 citations Ming Cao et al. profile →
Reaching a Consensus in a Dynamically Changing Environment: A Graphical Approach

2008 426 citations Ming Cao, A. Stephen Morse et al. profile →
Consensus in Directed Networks of Agents With Nonlinear Dynamics

2011 322 citations Ming Cao et al. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control profile →
Structural Balance and Opinion Separation in Trust–Mistrust Social Networks

2015 205 citations Ming Cao et al. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ming Cao Netherlands	47	7.5k	3.4k	1.3k	1.3k	1.3k	485	12.2k
Ali Jadbabaie United States	47	11.6k 1.5×	4.4k 1.3×	1.9k 1.4×	1.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	238	15.6k
Zengqiang Chen China	51	3.7k 0.5×	3.6k 1.0×	3.0k 2.2×	1.1k 0.8×	693 0.5×	694	12.2k
Naomi Ehrich Leonard United States	52	5.8k 0.8×	4.2k 1.2×	942 0.7×	426 0.3×	519 0.4×	225	11.5k
Magnus Egerstedt United States	51	9.1k 1.2×	6.1k 1.8×	696 0.5×	1.3k 1.0×	909 0.7×	449	15.2k
Kevin M. Passino United States	49	3.6k 0.5×	5.6k 1.7×	437 0.3×	1.5k 1.1×	587 0.5×	263	13.2k
Francesco Bullo United States	62	11.5k 1.5×	8.6k 2.5×	2.0k 1.5×	3.8k 2.9×	535 0.4×	350	20.6k
Jeff S. Shamma United States	39	2.1k 0.3×	4.8k 1.4×	543 0.4×	946 0.7×	278 0.2×	201	8.7k
George J. Pappas United States	74	8.7k 1.2×	6.3k 1.9×	1.1k 0.8×	1.9k 1.5×	736 0.6×	485	20.8k
Zhen Wang China	54	4.6k 0.6×	3.4k 1.0×	2.3k 1.7×	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	442	9.4k
Mario di Bernardo Italy	53	4.9k 0.6×	3.6k 1.0×	4.0k 3.0×	1.5k 1.2×	463 0.4×	362	12.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cao, Ming, et al.. (2025). Co-evolutionary control of a class of coupled mixed-feedback systems. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 35(3).

Ma, Shifang, et al.. (2024). Grain boundary engineering simultaneously optimized thermoelectric and mechanical properties of BiSbTe alloys. Journal of Power Sources. 618. 235191–235191. 8 indexed citations

Liu, Xinyi, Ziqi Cao, Yifan Ding, et al.. (2024). In-situ TEM characterization of dislocation loops in tungsten under simultaneous helium and hydrogen irradiation. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 598. 155167–155167. 3 indexed citations

Kamat, Amar M., et al.. (2024). Undulating Seal Whiskers Evolved Optimal Wavelength‐to‐Diameter Ratio for Efficient Reduction in Vortex‐Induced Vibrations (Adv. Sci. 2/2024). Advanced Science. 11(2). 1 indexed citations

Fu, Peng, et al.. (2024). Conservation of Yuan Dynasty Caisson Paintings in the Puzhao Temple, Hancheng, Shaanxi Province, China. Coatings. 14(10). 1287–1287. 1 indexed citations

Ding, Yifan, et al.. (2024). Dynamic response of He bubbles in Fe9Cr1.5W0.4Si F/M steel under in-situ stepwise nanocompression. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 598. 155131–155131. 2 indexed citations

Cao, Ming, et al.. (2024). Recent Developments of Subsurface Small-Leak Detection Techniques in Water Distribution Networks: A Review. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 31(1). 108–118. 10 indexed citations

Ramazi, Pouria, Fan Zhang, & Ming Cao. (2023). Cooperative concurrent targeting for planar arrays of point sources. Automatica. 159. 111357–111357.

Zino, Lorenzo, et al.. (2023). Modeling the Co-evolution of Climate Impact and Population Behavior: A Mean-Field Analysis⋆. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 56(2). 7381–7386. 3 indexed citations

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Riehl, James R., Pouria Ramazi, & Ming Cao. (2023). Controlling Networks of Imitative Agents. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. 11(1). 1293–1302. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Meiyu, et al.. (2022). Transcriptome sequencing reveals potential key genes of cellular changes during the first rapid growth stage of jujube fruit size. New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science. 53(2). 252–266. 1 indexed citations

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Zino, Lorenzo, Mengbin Ye, & Ming Cao. (2022). Facilitating innovation diffusion in social networks using dynamic norms. PNAS Nexus. 1(5). pgac229–pgac229. 9 indexed citations

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Yao, Weijia, et al.. (2022). Topological Analysis of Vector-Field Guided Path Following on Manifolds. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 68(3). 1353–1368. 7 indexed citations

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Qin, Yuzhen, Yu Kawano, Brian D. O. Anderson, & Ming Cao. (2021). Partial Exponential Stability Analysis of Slow–Fast Systems via Periodic Averaging. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 67(10). 5479–5486. 7 indexed citations

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Zheng, Xingwen, Amar M. Kamat, Ming Cao, & Ajay Giri Prakash Kottapalli. (2021). Creating underwater vision through wavy whiskers: a review of the flow-sensing mechanisms and biomimetic potential of seal whiskers. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 18(183). 20210629–20210629. 40 indexed citations

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Chen, Liangming, Ming Cao, & Chuanjiang Li. (2020). Angle Rigidity and Its Usage to Stabilize Multiagent Formations in 2-D. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 66(8). 3667–3681. 63 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhaojian, Laijun Chen, Feng Liu, et al.. (2020). Asynchronous Distributed Power Control of Multimicrogrid Systems. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. 7(4). 1960–1973. 14 indexed citations

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Kawano, Yu & Ming Cao. (2020). Design of Privacy-Preserving Dynamic Controllers. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 65(9). 3863–3878. 43 indexed citations

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Xue, Dong, Sandra Hirche, & Ming Cao. (2019). Opinion Behavior Analysis in Social Networks Under the Influence of Coopetitive Media. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. 7(3). 961–974. 41 indexed citations

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Riehl, James R. & Ming Cao. (2017). A Centrality-Based Security Game for Multihop Networks. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. 5(4). 1507–1516. 6 indexed citations

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