Jie Huang studied Power Engineering at Fuzhou University from 1977 to 1979 and Circuits and Systems at Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST) from 1979 to 1982 for a Master degree. He completed his Ph.D. study in automatic control at Johns Hopkins University in 1990.
After a year with Johns Hopkins University as a postdoctoral fellow and four years with industry in USA, he joined the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in September 1995, and is now Choh-Ming Li Research Professor of Mechanical and Automation Engineering. He served as a Science Advisor to the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Honorary Advisor to Hong Kong Science Museum, and Chairman of the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, CUHK. His research interests include nonlinear control, networked multi-agent systems control, game theory, and guidance and control of flight vehicles. He has authored/co-authored four monographs and some papers. He was elected HKIE Fellow in 2017, CAA Fellow in 2010, IFAC Fellow in 2009, and IEEE Fellow in 2005, and is now a life fellow of IEEE.
Changran He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Automation Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2020. Since 2021, he has been working as a postdoctoral fellow at CUHK. Dr. He is a recipient of the RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship. His research interests include cooperative control, output regulation, and their applications in robotic systems.
Yamin Yan (Organizer) received the B.E. degree from Wuyuzhang Honors College in Automation, Sichuan University, China, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong, in 2017.
She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Before joining NTU, she was a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering/the CKS Robotics Institute, at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, from 2021-2023, and a Research Associate at the University of Newcastle, Australia, from 2018-2021. Her research interests include networked systems and control, cyber-physical systems, and security control. She was the General Chair of the Asia Pacific Workshop-New Frontiers in Control Systems, Hong Kong, 2023, an Awarded Future Digileader 2023 for the Digital Futures in Stockholm, Sweden, as well as a selected participant in the 2022 Asian Deans’ Forum-The Rising Stars Women in Engineering Workshop in Sydney, Australia.
Selahattin Burak Sarsılmaz (Organizer) received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Middle East Technical University in 2013 and 2016, respectively. He received an M.A. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of South Florida in 2020.
He has been an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Utah State University (USU) since August 2022. Before joining USU, he was a flight control systems design engineer at Turkish Aerospace Inc. in the development of the T625 multirole helicopter (2014-2016); later a research assistant within the Laboratory for Autonomy, Control, Information, and Systems at the University of South Florida (2016-2020); and then a postdoctoral scholar within the Autonomous Controls Laboratory at the University of Washington (2020-2022). His research interests include distributed control of multi-agent systems, geometric state-space theory and optimization-based feedback control, robust adaptive control of uncertain systems, and resilient trajectory planning.
Ahmet Taha Koru (Organizer) has been a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) since 2021. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, respectively in 2009 and 2012, and the Ph.D. degree in the Control and Automation Engineering from the Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2017.
His research interests include multi-agent systems, optimal control, autonomous aerial vehicles, delay systems, switching systems, haptic interfaces, and medical robotics.
Cooperative Output Regulation Workshop at ACC 2024 