CCC 2024 Panel Discussion 2

Academic Award Winners in Systems and Control: Achievements and Experiences

系统与控制学术奖获得者——成就与经验

Chair: Min Wu (China University of Geosciences, China)

Panelists:  Xiaoming Hu (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

                 Qing-Shan Jia (Tsinghua University, China)

                 Youqing Wang (Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China)

                 Wenxiao Zhao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Abstract: Many distinguished researchers are received the international academic awards in the area of systems and control, such as IFAC journal awards, TCCT outstanding contribution award, TCCT Chen Han-Fu award and so on. The plenary panel session invites four distinguished representatives of them to share their outstanding contributions on systems and control. They will present their significant results and achievements on “intrinsic formation, inverse optimal control and network controllability”, “event-based learning and optimization”, “summaries of iterative learning control, repetitive control and run-to-run control”, and “identification and adaptive estimation of stochastic nonlinear systems”. Through the interaction with these renowned experts, we aim to gain a deeper understanding of the most leading and emerging issues in systems and control, as well as their excellent research experiences.

Xiaoming Hu received B.S. degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 1983 and PhD degree from Arizona State University in 1989 under the guidance of Professor Christopher I. Byrnes. He served as a research assistant at the Institute of Automation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, from 1983 to 1984. From 1989 to 1990 he was a Gustafsson Postdoctoral Fellow at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where he is a full professor of Optimization and Systems Theory since October 2003. He is also academically responsible for KTH’s strategic partnership with SJTU. He was head of the Division for Optimization and Systems Theory and was also a board member of the Center for Autonomous Systems, and of Linnaeus Center ACCESS. He has led or participated in many research projects sponsored by EU, the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Strategic Research Foundation, the Swedish Defense Material Administration, Wallenberg foundation and the Swedish National Space Board.

His main research interests are nonlinear systems, multi-agent systems, active sensing and nonlinear observers, and optimal control.  He has published more than 200 papers in journals and peer reviewed international conference proceedings and two monographs. He has been involved in the organization or program committee of many international conferences and in the editorial board of several international journals. He received the TCCT outstanding contribution award in 2023.

Qing-Shan Jia received the B.S. (2002) and the Ph.D. (2006) degrees in control science and engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is a Full Professor in the Center for Intelligent and Networked Systems (CFINS), Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, where he currently chairs the institute of systems engineering. He was the vice dean of Tsinghua Global Innovation eXchange (GIX) institute (2016-2019) and the vice chair of Department of Automation at Tsinghua University (2015-2018). He was a postdoc at Harvard University (2006), a visiting scholar at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2010), and at LIDS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013).

His research interest is to develop an integrated data-driven, statistical, and computational approach to find designs and decision-making policies with simple structures and guaranteed good performance. His work relies on strong collaborations with experts in energy systems, autonomous systems, and smart cities. He is currently the executive editor-in-chief of Results in Control and Optimization, and an associate editor (AE) of Science China Information Sciences. He was an AE of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2015-2021), IEEE Control Systems Letters (2019-2021), IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (2012-2017), and Discrete Event Dynamic Systems – Theory and Applications (2012-2016). He served the Discrete Event Systems Technical Committee chair in IEEE Control Systems Society (2012-2015), the co-chair for Smart Buildings Technical Committee in IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (2012-2021), the Control for Smart Cities Technical Committee chair in International Federation of Automatic Control (2017-2023), and the Beijing Chapter Chair of IEEE Control Systems Society (2012-2023). He is a founding chair of the Technical Committee on Machine Learning for Automation in IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (since 2023). He has been a member of the Chinese Automation Association Technical Committee on Control Theory (since 2018) and the Chinese Automation Association Technical Committee on Information Security of Industrial Systems (since 2016).

Youqing Wang received the B.S. degree in Mathematics from Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China, in 2003, and Ph.D. degree in Control Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2008. He worked chronologically at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China; University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA; University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, Shandong, China; City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. He is currently a Professor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China.

His research interests include fault diagnosis, fault-tolerant control, state monitoring, and iterative learning control for chemical and biomedical processes. Dr. Wang was a recipient of several honors and awards, including IET Fellow, NSFC Distinguished Young Scientists Fund, Journal of Process Control Survey Paper Prize, and ADCHEM2015 Young Author Prize.

Wenxiao Zhao graduated from Shandong University and holds a doctorate from the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he is currently a professor.

His research interests mainly focus on the modeling, estimation and control theory of stochastic systems, including variable selection and sparse parameter identification, recursive estimation and adaptive control of stochastic systems, distributed estimation and optimization of multi-agent systems, and related application research. Zhao Wenxiao currently serves on the Editorial Board of Systems Science and Mathematics, the member of the IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board, and the chair of the IEEE CSS Beijing Chapter. Zhao Wenxiao won the Guan Zhaozhi Award of the China Control Conference in 2013 and won the Best Paper Award of the International Federation of Automatic Control's flagship journal Automatica in 2023.