About Me

I earned my PhD degree from the Department of Computer Sciences at Brunel University London, UK, under the supervision of Prof. Zidong Wang. Before that, I received the BEng and MEng degrees from the Department of Control Science and Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology, China, under the supervision of Prof. Huijun Gao.

Prior to taking the lecturer position at De Montfort University in 2018, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher about two years, first in the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast, under the supervision of Dr. Wasif Naeem , and then in Loughborough University Centre of Autonomous Systems at Loughborough University, under the supervision of Prof. Wen-hua Chen .

Education

  • 2012.06 -- 2016.05: PhD, Department of Computer Sciences, Brunel University London
  • 2008.08 -- 2010.07: MEng, Department of Control Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology
  • 2004.08 -- 2008.07: BEng, Department of Control Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology

Research Experience

  • 2017.09 -- 2018. 01: Research Associate, Loughborough University Centre of Autonomous Systems, Loughborough University
  • 2016.02 -- 2017.09: Research Fellow, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , Queen's University Belfast
  • 2010.08 -- 2012.05: Research Assistant, Research Institute of Intelligent Control and Systems, Harbin Institute of Technology

Professional Activities

Associate Editor

  • IEEE Access, since 2018.
  • Evolutionary Intelligence (Springer), since 2018.

Guess Editor

  • Journal Sensor, Special Issue on "Networked Sensing for Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory and Applications", on-going, 2019.
  • Journal Complexity, Special Issues "Bio-Inspired Learning and Adaptation for Optimisation and Control of Complex System", 2018.

Conference Chair/Session Chair

  • Publicity Chair, the 5th IEEE Smart World Congress, 08/2019, Leicester, UK.
  • Session Co-chair of Session "Cyber-Physical Systems", the 12th UKACC International Conference on Control, 09/2018, Sheffield, UK.
  • Session Co-chair of Session "Condition Monitoring and Systems", the 24th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), 09/2018, Newcastle, UK.
  • Session Co-chair of Session "Networked Control Systems & Applications", the 11th UKACC International Conference on Control, 09/2016, Belfast, UK.

Reviewer (incomplete)

  • Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology
  • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Information Science
  • CDC, IROS, ECC, UKACC, ...