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Shuo Wan is a leading researcher in smart city infrastructure and multi-robot systems, with a focus on enhancing public safety and cooperative robotics. His most impactful work, "To Smart City: Public Safety Network Design for Emergency" (53 citations), proposes an innovative system architecture integrating a central agent with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to detect and respond to unpredictable urban emergencies. This foundational contribution addresses critical challenges in real-time threat management within smart cities. Wan has also made significant advances in multi-robot formation control, pioneering semi-centralized approaches that optimize position assignment and minimize system costs. His 2017 paper on semi-centralized control (13 citations) introduces a more efficient alternative to fully decentralized methods, while his subsequent work applies information theory to analyze and reduce position errors caused by sensor and controller limitations (5 citations). By establishing theoretical lower bounds for formation control costs, Wan has provided rigorous frameworks for evaluating and improving multi-robot coordination. His research bridges practical emergency response systems with fundamental robotics theory, offering scalable solutions for both civilian and military applications. With a career spanning foundational theory and applied smart city technologies, Wan continues to shape the future of autonomous cooperative systems.