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Preprints

  1. “ Multi-Agent Bayesian Optimization with Coupled Black-Box and Affine Constraints” [arXiv]
    Wenjie Xu, Yuning Jiang, Bratislav Svetozarevic, Colin N. Jones.

  2. “ Bayesian Optimization of Expensive Nested Grey-Box Functions ” [arXiv]
    Wenjie Xu, Yuning Jiang, Bratislav Svetozarevic, Colin N. Jones.

  3. “ Optimizing ride-sharing routing and request assignment: A probabilistic approach ”
    Qiulin Lin, Wenjie Xu, Minghua Chen and Xiaojun Lin

  4. “ Bayesian optimization for building social-influence-free consensus ” [arXiv]
    Masaki Adachi, Siu Lun Chau, Wenjie Xu, Anurag Singh, Michael A. Osborne and Krikamol Muandet

Journal Articles

  1. “Smart building HVAC control challenge: experience and solutions from the ADRENALIN project"”
    Harald Taxt Walnum, Balázs András Tolnai , David Blum , Jicheng Shi , Colin N. Jones , Deep Dessai , Wenbin Wang , Wenjie Xu, Sebastien Gros & Igor Sartori, accepted to the Journal of Building Performance Simulation, 2026.

  2. “What price to pay? Auto-tuning a building MPC controller for optimal economic cost ”
    Jiarui Yu*, Jicheng Shi*, Wenjie Xu*, Colin N. Jones (*: equal contribution), accepted to Control Engineering Practice, 2026.

  3. “Minimizing Emission for Timely Heavy-Duty Truck Transportation”
    Junyan Su, Runzhi Zhou, Qingyu Liu, Wenjie Xu, Minghua Chen, and Haibo Zeng, accepted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), 2024.

  4. “Violation-Aware Contextual Bayesian Optimization for Controller Performance Optimization with Unmodeled Constraints” [arXiv]
    Wenjie Xu, Colin N Jones, Bratislav Svetozarevic, Christopher R. Laughman, and Ankush Chakrabarty, accepted to Journal of Process Control (JPC), 2024.

  5. “Lower Bounds on the Noiseless Worst-Case Complexity of Efficient Global Optimization” [PDF]
    Wenjie Xu, Yuning Jiang, Emilio T. Maddalena, Colin N. Jones, accepted to Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (JOTA), 2024.

  6. “ Data-driven adaptive building thermal controller tuning with constraints: A primal-dual contextual Bayesian optimization approach” [arXiv]
    Wenjie Xu, Bratislav Svetozarevic, Loris Di Natale, Philipp Heer, Colin N Jones, accepted to Applied Energy (APEN), 2023.

  7. “Ride the Tide of Traffic Conditions: Opportunistic Driving Improves Energy Efficiency of Timely Truck Transportation” [PDF]
    Wenjie Xu, Qingyu Liu, Minghua Chen, Haibo Zeng, accepted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), 2023.

  8. “Optimizing Two-Truck Platooning with Deadlines ” [PDF] [Technical Report]
    Wenjie Xu*, Titing Cui*, Minghua Chen, (*: co-primary authors) accepted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), 2022.

  9. “Recurrent Neural Networks Are Universal Approximators With Stochastic Inputs” [PDF]
    Xiuqiong Chen, Yangtianze Tao, Wenjie Xu, Stephen S.-T. Yau, accepted to IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (T-NNLS), 2022.

Conference Papers

  1. “Human-in-the-loop: Real-time Preference Optimization ”
    Wenbin Wang, Wenjie Xu and Colin N. Jones, accepted to the 24th European Control Conference (ECC) (ECC 2026). [arXiv]

  2. “Principled Bayesian Optimization in Collaboration with Human Experts”
    Wenjie Xu*, Masaki Adachi*, Colin N. Jones and Michael A. Osborne, accepted to the Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024, Spotlight). [arXiv]

  3. “Principled Preferential Bayesian Optimization” [arXiv]
    Wenjie Xu, Wenbin Wang, Yuning Jiang, Bratislav Svetozarevic, and Colin N. Jones, accepted to the Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024, Oral, top 1.5%).

  4. “Primal-Dual Contextual Bayesian Optimization for Control System Online Optimization with Time-Average Constraints” [arXiv]
    Wenjie Xu, Yuning Jiang, Bratislav Svetozarevic, and Colin N. Jones, accepted to the 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2023).

  5. “Constrained Efficient Global Optimization of Expensive Black-box Functions” [PDF]
    Wenjie Xu, Yuning Jiang, Bratislav Svetozarevic, and Colin N. Jones, accepted to the Fortieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023).

  6. “CONFIG: Constrained Efficient Global Optimization for Closed-Loop Control System Optimization with Unmodeled Constraints” [PDF]
    Wenjie Xu, Yuning Jiang, Bratislav Svetozarevic, and Colin N. Jones, accepted to IFAC World Congress 2023.

  7. “ VABO: Violation-Aware Bayesian Optimization for Closed-Loop Control Performance Optimization with Unmodeled Constraints” [PDF] [Video] [arXiv][Code]
    Wenjie Xu, Colin N Jones, Bratislav Svetozarevic, Christopher R. Laughman, and Ankush Chakrabarty, accepted to the 2022 American Control Conference (ACC 2022).

    (ASME Energy Systems Technical Committee Best Paper Award)

  8. “ Minimizing Emission for Timely Truck Transportation with Adaptive Fuel Injection ” [PDF]
    Runzhi Zhou, Qingyu Liu, Wenjie Xu, Minghua Chen, and Haibo Zeng, in the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2020).

  9. “ Ride the Tide of Traffic Conditions: Opportunistic Driving Improves Energy Efficiency of Timely Truck Transportation ” [PDF]
    Wenjie Xu, Qingyu Liu, Minghua Chen and Haibo Zeng, in the 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2019).

  10. “Demo Abstract: Online Path and Speed Planning Platform for Energy-Efficient Timely Truck Transportation” [PDF]
    Yaowei Long*, Zidong Wu*, Hongyi Liu*, Titing Cui, Wenjie Xu, Minghua Chen, (* indicates equal contribution) in the 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2019).

  11. “A Probabilistic Approach for Demand-Aware Ride-Sharing Optimization ” [Paper] [Technical Report]
    Qiulin Lin, Wenjie Xu, Minghua Chen and Xiaojun Lin, in the 20th International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2019).

  12. “On the classification and false alarm of RPKI based BGP route origin validation” [PDF]
    Wenjie Xu, Deliang Chang and Xing Li, in the 16th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2019). (short paper)

  13. “Opportunistic Driving: a Critical Design Space for Reducing Fuel Consumption of Timely Long-Haul Truck Transportation” [PDF]
    Wenjie Xu, Qingyu Liu, Minghua Chen and Haibo Zeng, in the 10th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy 2019). (poster paper)