先后主持国家自然科学基金面上项目“互联网突发事件下复杂网络的演化动力学与对抗控制研究”和国家自然科学基金青年基金“混合型复杂动态网络的非线性动力学与控制研究”、并主持湖北省自然科学基金项目1项和国家博士后研究基金项目1项。另参与1项国家自然科学基金重点项目、多项国家自然科学基金、湖北省自然科学基金和教育部骨干教师奖励基金的研究工作。
近年来在Automatica、IEEE Trans. Circuits & Systems-I、Int. J. Robust & Nonlinear Control、Chaos等国内外权威刊物上发表论文30余篇，已被SCI收录18篇。
主要论文如下：
[1] Yan-Wu Wang, Hua O. Wang, Jiang-Wen Xiao, Zhi-Hong Guan, Synchronization of complex dynamical networks under recoverable attacks, Automatica, 46, pp. 197- 203, 2010
[2] Yan-Wu Wang, Jiang-Wen Xiao, Changyun Wen, Zhi-Hong Guan, Synchronization of continuous dynamical networks with discrete-time communications, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 22(12), pp. 1979-1986, 2011
[3] Yan-Wu Wang, Meng Yang, Hua O. Wang, Zhi-Hong Guan, Robust Stabilization of Complex Switched Networks with Parametric Uncertainties and Delays via Impulsive Control, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, 56(9), pp. 2100-2108, 2009
[4] Zhi-Hong Guan, Zhi-Wei Liu, Gang Feng, Yan-Wu Wang, Synchronization of complex dynamical networks with time-varying delays via impulsive distributed control,IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 57(8), pp. 2182-2195, 2010
[5] Zhi-Hong Guan, Feng-Lan Sun, Yan-Wu Wang, Tao Li, Finite-time consensus for leader-following second-order multi-agent networks, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 59(11), pp. 2646-2654, 2012
[6] Meng Yang, Yan-Wu Wang(*), Jiang-Wen Xiao, Hua O. Wang, Robust synchronization of impulsively-coupled complex switched networks with parametric uncertainties and time-varying delays, Nonlinear Analysis-B, 11, pp. 3008-3020, 2010
[7] Yan-Wu Wang, Tao Bian, Jiang-Wen Xiao, Yuehua Huang, Robust synchronization of complex switched networks with parametric uncertainties and two types of delays, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 23, pp. 190-207, 2013
[8] Meng Tang, Yan-Wu Wang(*), Changyun Wen, Improved delay-range-dependent stability criteria for linear systems with interval time - varying delays, IET Control Theory and Applications, 6(6), pp. 868-873, 2012
[9] Yan-Wu Wang, Jiang-Wen Xiao, Hua O. Wang, Global Synchronization of complex dynamical networks with network failures, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 20, pp. 1667-1677, 2010
[10] Meng Yang, Yan-Wu Wang(*), Jiang-Wen Xiao, Yuehua Huang, Robust synchronization of singular complex switched networks with parametric uncertainties and unknown coupling topologies via impulsive control,Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 17, pp. 4404-4416, 2012
