Education

• PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 2005
• MSc, Mechanical Engineering and Automatic Control, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
• BSc, Mechanical Engineering and Automatic Control,  Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China

Academic Positions

• Professor, July 2014 - Now, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.
• Associate Professor, August 2009 - June 2014, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.
• Associate Professor, July 2009, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
• Assistant Professor, September 2005 - June 2009, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
• Research Associate, September 1998 - November 2000, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Awards and Honors

• 2014-2019: Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering by Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters)
• Dec. 2018: Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC)
• Nov. 2017: Humboldt Researcher Fellowship (for experienced researchers)
• Nov. 2016: Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
• Nov. 2016: 2017 IEEE TFS Outstanding Paper Award
• March 2016: Fellow of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
• Feb. 2016: Fellow of the CSME (Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering)
• 2013: JSPS Invitation Fellowship
• April 2012: Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Engineering, University of Victoria
• 2006-2007: Teaching Excellence Award, University of Saskatchewan Student Union (USSU)

International Journal Editorial Positions

• Co-Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics, Nov. 2017-present
  
  
• Associate Editor, Automatica, 2016/11-present
• Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology, 2015-present
• Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Cybernetics, 2015-present
• Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics, 2014-present
• Technical Editor, IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatronics, 2014-present
• Associate Editor, IET Control Theory & Applications, 2013-present
• Associate Editor, Journal of the Franklin Institute (Elsevier), 2012-present
  
  
• Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Systems, 2014-2015
• Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, 2012-2018

Guest Editor

• Guest Editor, Focused Session on Cloud-Edge Computing for Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics; submission deadline: March 2020
• Guest Editor, Focused Session on Recent Technological Innovations in Automation and Control Systems for Marine Vehicles, Control Engineering Practice; submission deadline: March 2020
• Lead Guest Editor, Focused Session on Advanced Control and Navigation for Marine Mechatronic Systems, IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatronics; submission deadline: Feb. 2016
• Corresponding Guest Editor, Special Section on Distributed Coordination Control and Industrial Applications, IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics; submission deadline: March 2016
• Guest Editor, Special Issue on Control and Management of Logistic Systems based on Information Technologies, Information Sciences; submission deadline: September 2015
• Guest Editor, Special Issue on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, Proceedings of IEEE, submission deadline: June 2015
• Guest Editor, Special Issue on Synchronizability, Controllability and Observability of Networked Multi-Agent Systems, Journal of the Franklin Institute; published in 2015

International Conference Editorial Positions

• Associate Editor, ASME Dynamic Systems and Controls Conference (DSCC) Editorial Board (CEB), 2010-2017
• Associate Editor, IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board (CEB), 2011-present

Major Conference Services

• General Co-Chair, The 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS 2021), May 10-13, 2021, Victoria, Canada.
• International Advisory, The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2020), July 6-10, 2020, Singapore,Singapore.
• Workshop Chair, The 2020 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2020), July 6-10, 2020, Boston, MA, USA.
• Technical Program Co-Chair, The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS 2020), June 10-12, 2020, Tampere, Finland.
• General Co-Chair, The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS 2019), May 6-9, 2019, Taipei, Taiwan.
• General Co-Chair, The 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2019), June 8-10, 2019, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• Local Arrangement Chair, The 14th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA 2018), June 12-15, 2018, Anchorage, AK, USA.
• General Co-Chair, The 1st IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS 2018), May 15-18, 2018, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
• Publicity Co-Chair, The 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2017), October 29- November 1, 2017, Beijing, China.
• Program Co-Chair, The 15th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2017), July 24-26, Emden, Germany.
• General Chair, The 26th Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics (CANCAM 2017), June 1-6, 2017, Victoria, BC, Canada.

Past Visiting Positions

• Mar. - Aug. 2018, Visiting Professor, Institute of Automatic Control and Complex Systems (AKS), University of Duisburg-Essen
• Nov. - Dec. 2013, Guest Professor, Department of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics, The University of Tokyo
• Jun. 2013, Visiting Professor, The City University of Hong Kong

Seleceted Awards of Supervised Students

• 2020-2022, Chao Shen, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
• Dec. 2019, Changxin Liu, MSc Thesis Grant award by IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
• Oct. 2018, Chao Shen, PhD-SSE Thesis Grant award by IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
• 2016-2018, Mingxi Liu, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
• April 2013, Hui Zhang, The Faculty of Graduate Studies Awards Committee has recommended Dr. Hui Zhang as UVic nominee for the  2012 CAGS/PROQUEST-UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award. "The Award recognizes Canadian doctoral dissertations that make unusually significant and original contributions to their academic field". Only one nomination from each university.
• Jan. 2011, Hui Zhang, 2010 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Chinese Students Study Abroad by China Scholarship Council (CSC)
• May 2009, Bo Yu, U of S Thesis Award in the area of Physical and Engineering Sciences (one award per year among all MSc and PhD theses in this area)
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