Message from Technical Chairs

TY - JOUR

T1 - Message from Technical Chairs

AU - Wen, Changyun

AU - Jiang, Zhong Ping

N1 - Funding Information: Currently, he is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering, New York University. He is known for fundamental contributions to nonlinear control theory and applications. In particular, he is a key contributor to nonlinear small-gain theory. His main research interests include stability theory, robust/adaptive/distributed nonlinear control, adaptive dynamic programming and their applications to information, mechanical and biological systems. He is coauthor of four books Stability and Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems (with Dr. I. Karafyllis, Springer, 2011), Nonlinear Control of Dynamic Networks (with Drs. T. Liu and D.J. Hill, Taylor & Francis, 2014), Robust Adaptive Dynamic Programming (with Y. Jiang, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2017) and Nonlinear Control Under Information Constraints (with T. Liu, Science Press, 2018). He was named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics in 2018. Dr. Jiang is a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Control and Decision and of the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, a Senior Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Letters and the Systems and Control Letters, an Editor for the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control and has served as an Associate Editor for several journals including Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems (MCSS), Systems & Control Letters, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, European Journal of Control, and Science China: Information Sciences. Dr. Jiang is a recipient of the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship Award from the Australian Research Council (1998), the CAREER Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation (2001), JSPS Invitation Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2005), the Distinguished Overseas Chinese Scholar Award from the NSF of China (2007), and the Chair Professorship by the Ministry of Education of China (2009). His recent awards include the Steve and Rosalind Hsia Best Biomedical Paper Award at the 2016 World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation in Guilin, China, the Best Paper Award at the 2017 Asian Control Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, and the Best Paper Award on Control at the 2018 IEEE Conf. on Prof. Jiang is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the IFAC. Funding Information: Bruno Sinopoli received the Dr. Eng. degree from the University of Padova in 1998 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, in 2003 and 2005 respectively. After a postdoctoral position at Stanford University, Dr. Sinopoli was the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University from 2007 to 2019, where he was full professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with courtesy appointments in Mechanical Engineering and in the Robotics Institute and co-director of the Smart Infrastructure Institute, a research center aimed at advancing innovation in the modeling analysis and design of smart infrastructure. In 2019 Dr. Sinopoli joined Washington University in Saint Louis, where is the chair of the Electrical and Systems Engineering department. Dr. Sinopoli was awarded the 2006 Eli Jury Award for outstanding research achievement in the areas of systems, communications, control and signal processing at U.C. Berkeley, the 2010 George Tallman Ladd Research Award from Carnegie Mellon University and the NSF Career award in 2010. His research interests include the modeling, analysis and design of Secure by Design Cyber-Physical Systems with applications to Energy Systems, Interdependent Infrastructures and Internet of Things. Funding Information: Prof. Polycarpou is the recipient of the 2016 IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE and IFAC, and he received with his co-authors the 2014 Best Paper Award for the journal Building and Environment (Elsevier). Prof Polycarpou served as the President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2012-2013), and as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2004-2010). He is currently the President of the European Control Association (EUCA). Prof. Polycarpou has participated in more than 60 research projects/grants, funded by several agencies and industry in Europe and the United States, including the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant and the EU Teaming project. Funding Information: Yong Zhao received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, respectively, from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 1998 and 2001. He was a postdoctoral fellow in Tsinghua University from 2001 to 2003, and then worked as an associate professor in the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University of China. In 2006, he was a visiting scholar of University of Illinois in Urbana and Champagne, USA. In 2008, he was awarded as the “New Century Excellent Talents in University” by the Ministry of Education of China. In 2009, he was awarded as the “Liaoning Bai-Qian-Wan Talents” by Liaoning Province. In 2011, he was awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering as an academic research fellow of City University London. In 2014, he was awarded by the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of China. In 2015, he was honored as the Yangtze River Scholar Distinguished Professor by the Ministry of Education of China. Now he is working in Northeastern University as a full professor. As the academic leader and director of his research institute, his current research interests are the development of fiber-optic sensors and device, fiber Bragg grating sensors, novel sensor materials and principles, slow light and sensor technology, optical measurement technologies. He has authored and co-authored more than 260 scientific papers and conference presentations, 24 patents, and 5 books. He is an associate editor-in-chief of ACTA AUTOMATICA SINICA, and a member in the Editorial Boards of the international journals of Sensor Letters, Instrumentation Science & Technology, Journal of Sensor Technology, and Advances in Optical Technologies. Funding Information: He received the Young Scholars Science and Technology Award of China in 2016 and the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2015. He received the National Technological Invention Award in 2013, and received 2 First-prize of Science and Technology Award of Ministry of Education in 2006 and 2012, respectively. One of his paper published on Control Engineering Practice was selected as the Best Paper Award of 2011-2013. Funding Information: Dr. Shi received the University of Saskatchewan Student Union Teaching Excellence Award in 2007. At the University of Victoria, he received the Faculty of Engineering Teaching Excellence in 2012, and the Craigdarroch Silver Medal for Excellence in Research in 2015. He received the JSPS Invitation Fellowship (short-term) in 2013 and the Humboldt Research Fellowship for experienced researchers in 2017. His co-authored paper was awarded the 2017 IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award. He is a member of the IEEE IES Administrative Committee during 2017-2019, and currently Chair of IEEE IES Technical Committee on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems. Currently, he is Co-Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics; he also serves as Associate Editor for Automatica, IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology, IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatrnonics, IEEE Trans. Cybernetics. He is a Fellow of IEEE, ASME and CSME, and a registered Professional Engineer in British Columbia, Canada. He was elected to Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada in 2019.

PY - 2019/6

Y1 - 2019/6

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U2 - 10.1109/CCDC.2019.8832861

DO - 10.1109/CCDC.2019.8832861

M3 - Editorial

SP - iii-iv

JO - Proceedings of the 31st Chinese Control and Decision Conference, CCDC 2019

JF - Proceedings of the 31st Chinese Control and Decision Conference, CCDC 2019

M1 - 8832861

T2 - 31st Chinese Control and Decision Conference, CCDC 2019

Y2 - 3 June 2019 through 5 June 2019

ER -