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
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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
Seleceted Awards of
Supervised Students
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2020-2022, Chao Shen, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
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Dec. 2019, Changxin Liu, MSc Thesis Grant award by IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
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Oct. 2018, Chao Shen, PhD-SSE Thesis Grant award by IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
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2016-2018, Mingxi Liu, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
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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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Professional
Memberships
IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES)
- Nov. 2018 - present, Chair, Technical Committee on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE IES
- Jan. 2018 - Dec. 2019, AdCom Member, IEEE IES
- 2017 - 2019, Fellow Evaluation Committee, IEEE IES
- Nov. 2014 - Nov. 2018, Vice Chair, Technical Committee on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE IES
- Nov. 2017 - present, Member of the Publications Committee, IEEE IES
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