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BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

Education

2005 PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering,University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
1998 Ph.D. and M.Sc. (granted together), Mechanical Engineering and Automatic Control, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
1994 B.Eng., Mechanical Engineering and Automatic Control, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China

Academic Positions

2014/07 - Now Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
2009/08 - 2014/06 Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
2009/07 Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
2005/09 - 2009/06 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
1998/09 - 2000/11 Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering,Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Past Visiting Positions

2018/03 - 2018/08 Visiting Professor, Institute of Automatic Control and Complex Systems (AKS), University of Duisburg-Essen
2013/11 - 2013/12 Guest Professor, Department of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics, The University of Tokyo
2013/06 Visiting Professor, The City University of Hong Kong

Awards and Honors

2023/08 IEEE Dr. -Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award
2023/06 Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE)
2023/05 CSME Mechatronics Medal
2023/01 IEEE IES Distinguished Lecturer
2014 - 2022 Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering by Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters)
2020/09 Certificate of Recognition by Engineering and Geoscientists BC
2018/12 Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC)
2017/11 Humboldt Researcher Fellowship (for experienced researchers)
2017/11 IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award (bestowed in 2017; only one award from 167 papers published in 2014 TFS)
2016/11 Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
2016/02 Fellow of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
2016/03 Fellow of the CSME (Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering)
2013 JSPS Invitation Fellowship
2012/04 Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Engineering, University of Victoria
2006 - 2007 Teaching Excellence Award, University of Saskatchewan Student Union (USSU)

 IFAC (International Federation on Automatic Control)

2023/07 - 2026/07 IFAC Membership Committee Member
2023/07 - 2026/07 IFAC Council Member

 IEEE

2023/01 - 2024/12 IEEE Fellow Committee Member
2021/01 - 2021/12 IEEE Fellow Committee Member (alternate)

 IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES)

2024/01 - 2025/12 Vice President on Conference Activities (re-elected), IEEE IES
2022/01 - 2023/12 Vice President on Conference Activities, IEEE IES
2018/01 - 2025/12 AdCom Member, IEEE IES
2017 - 2019 Vice Chair and Member, Fellow Evaluation Committee, IEEE IES
2019/01 - 2022/12 Chair, Technical Committee on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE IES
2014/11 - 2018/12 Vice Chair,Technical Committee on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE IES
2019 - now Member, Techncial Committee on Standards, IEEE IES
2017/11 - now Member, Publications Committe, IEEE IES

International Journal Editorial Positions

2022/07 - 2025/07 Special Issue Editor-in-Chief, IET Control Theory & Applications
2019 - now Co-Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
2017/11 - 2023/12 Co-Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics
2022/09 - 2026/09 Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems
2022/07 - 2025/07 Associate Editor, Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering
2021/11 - now Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Automatic Control
2020 - now Associate Editor, IEEE Industrial Electronics Magzine
2016 - now Associate Editor, Automatica
2015 - now Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Cybernetics
2015 - 2020/12 Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology
2014 - 2017 Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics
2014 - 2020/12 Associate Editor, IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatronics
2014 - 2016 Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Systems
2013 - now Associate Editor, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing (Springer)
2012 - 2018/12 Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control
2012 - now Associate Editor, Journal of the Franklin Institute (Elsevier)

Guest Editor

2023 - 2024 Guest Editor, Special Issue on Unmanned Underwater Vehicles, Journal of Field Robotics; submission deadline: December 31, 2023
2021 - 2022 Guest Editor, Special Section on New Advancements in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics; submission deadline: May 30, 2021
2021 - 2022 Guest Editor, Focused Session on Adaptive Learning and Control for Advanced Mechatronics Systems, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics; submission deadline: May 31, 2021
2020 - 2021 Guest Editor, Special Issue on Analysis and Design fro Semi-Markov Jump Systems and Their Applications, Journal of the Franklin Institute; submission deadline: December 31, 2020
2019 - 2020 Guest Editor, Focused Session on Recent Technological Innovations in Automation and Control Systems for Marine Vehicles, Control Engineering Practice; published in Vol. 117, November 2021.
2019 - 2020 Guest Editor, Focused Session on Cloud-Edge Computing for Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics; published in Vol. 17, No. 11, November 2021
2018 - 2019 Guest Editor, Special Issue on Estimation, Detection and Defense for Security of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, ISA Transactions; published in Vol. 116, October 2021
2018 - 2019 Guest Editor, Special Issue on Control and Signal Processing in Mechatronic Systems, Journal of the Franklin Institute; published in Vol. 255, No. 18, December 2018
2015 - 2016 Lead Guest Editor, Focused Session on Advanced Control and Navigation for Marine Mechatronic Systems, IEEE/ASME Transactions Mechatronics; published in Vol. 22, No. 3, June 2017
2015 - 2016 Corresponding Guest Editor, Special Section on Distributed Coordination Control and Industrial Applications, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics; Vol. 64, No. 6, published in June 2017
2015 - 2016 Guest Editor, Special Issue on Control and Management of Logistic Systems based on Information Technologies, Information Sciences; published in Vol. 373, December 2016
2015 - 2016 Special Issue on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, Proceedings of IEEE; published in Vol. 104, No. 5, May 2016
2014 - 2015 Guest Editor, Special Issue on Synchronizability, Controllability and Observability of Networked Multi-Agent Systems, Journal of the Franklin Institute; published in Vol. 352, No. 9, September 2015

Major Conference Services

2024 Special Session Chair, The 50th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2024), November 3-6, 2024, Chicago, IL, USA.
2024 Honorary Chair, The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2024), August 17-20, 2024, Beijing, China.
2024 Honorary Chair, The 7th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS 2024), May 12-15, 2024, St. Louis, MO, USA.
2023 Member of International Advisory Board, The 2nd IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Annual On-Line Conference (IECON 2023), December 8-10, 2023, Online.
2023 General Co-Chair, The 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2023), October 16-19, 2023, Singapore.
2023 Technical Program Co-Chair, The 32nd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2023), June 19-21, 2023, Helsinki-Espoo, Finland.
2023 Symposium Chai, The 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society ( CSME 2023), May 28-31, 2023, Sherbrooke, Canada.
2023 General Co-Chair, The 6th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS 2023), May 8-11, 2023, Wuhan, China.
2023 General Co-Chair, The 9th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR 2023), April 21-23, 2023, Beijing, China.
2022 General Co-Chair, The 5th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS 2022), May 24-26, 2022, Coventry, United Kingdom.
2021 General Chair, The 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS 2021), May 10-13, 2021, Victoria, Canada.
2020 International Advisory, The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2020), July 6-10, 2020, Singapore,Singapore.
2020 Workshop Chair, The 2020 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2020), July 6-10, 2020, Boston, MA, USA.
2020 Technical Program Co-Chair, The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS 2020), June 10-12, 2020, Tampere, Finland.
2019 General Co-Chair, The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS 2019), May 6-9, 2019, Taipei, Taiwan.
2019 General Co-Chair, The 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2019), June 8-10, 2019, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
2018 Local Arrangement Chair, The 14th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA 2018), June 12-15, 2018, Anchorage, AK, USA.
2018 General Co-Chair, The 1st IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS 2018), May 15-18, 2018, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
2017 Publicity Co-Chair, The 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2017), October 29- November 1, 2017, Beijing, China.
2017 Program Co-Chair, The 15th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2017), July 24-26, Emden, Germany.
2017 General Chair, The 26th Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics (CANCAM 2017), June 1-6, 2017, Victoria, BC, Canada.

International Conference Editorial Positions

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

Seleceted Awards of Supervised Students

2023 - 2025 Changxin Liu, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
2023 - 2025 Kunwu Zhang, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
2020 - 2022 Chao Shen, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
2021 - 2022 Changxin Liu, DAAD Doctoral Research Grant by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
2019/12 Changxin Liu, MSc Thesis Grant by IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
2018/10 Chao Shen, PhD-SSE Thesis Grant by IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
2016 - 2018 Mingxi Liu, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
2013/04 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.
2011/01 Hui Zhang, 2010 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Chinese Students Study Abroad by China Scholarship Council (CSC)
2009/05 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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