Work Experience
Sep. 2022 -- Now
Senior Data Scientist -> Data Scientist Team Lead in DBS Bank, Singapore
May 2018 -- Aug. 2022
Senior Algorithm Engineer -> Staff Algorithm Engineer in Alibaba Cloud, Singapore
Oct. 2017 -- Apr. 2018
Scientist in Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
Oct. 2016 -- Sep. 2017
Senior Research Fellow & Assistant Director in Delta-NTU Corporate Laboratory for Cyber-Physical Systems, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Nov. 2012 -- Sep. 2016
Postdoctoral Associate in Future Urban Mobility IRG, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre, Singapore
Jun. 2011 -- Oct. 2012
Research Associate -> Research Fellow in School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Education
Aug. 2007 -- Jun. 2011
Ph.D. in School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Sep. 2005 -- Jun. 2007
M.E. in School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Tianjin University, China
Sep. 2001 -- Jun. 2005
B.E. in School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Tianjin University, China
Visiting Positions
Nov. 2014 -- Dec. 2014
Visiting Scholar in Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Jun. 2009 -- Jul. 2009
Visiting Scholar in Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Teaching Experience
Tutorials
Engineering mathematics (Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011)
Laboratory Demonstrations
Feedback control of solar tracking system (Fall 2009, Fall 2010)
Series resonance and time/frequency response of passive networks (Fall 2009)
Equipotentials and electric fields (Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011)
Working Areas
Generative AI
Machine learning
Reinforcement learning
Optimization and control
Estimation and prediction
Intelligent transport systems
Projects
Next Generation Urban Traffic Control and Management (Oct. 2017 -- Apr. 2018)
Grant: Agency for Science, Technology and Research of Singapore
Development of Dynamic Reconfigurable Material Handling System (Oct. 2016 -- Sep. 2017)
Grant: National Research Foundation Singapore under the Corp Lab @ University Scheme
Next-generation traffic control (Jan. 2016 -- Sep. 2016)
Grant: Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) through the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Centre for Future Urban Mobility (FM)
Smart traffic management system (Mar. 2014 -- Oct. 2015)
Grant: Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (iDA) through the Smart & Connected Jurong Lake District (JLD) Pilots and Trials
Real-time control and learning for urban transportation systems (Nov. 2012 -- Dec. 2015)
Grant: Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) through the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Centre for Future Urban Mobility (FM)
Road pricing for traffic congestion control (Sep. 2010 -- Dec. 2015)
Grant: Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) through the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Centre for Future Urban Mobility (FM)
Cooperative estimation and control theory with application in wireless sensor networks (Jan. 2009 -- Dec. 2010)
Grant: National Science Foundation of China (no. 60828006)
Markov jump system theory for collaborative signal and information processing in wireless sensor networks (Aug. 2007 -- Dec. 2008)
Grant: Agency for Science, Technology and Research of Singapore (no. SERC 0521010037)
Fault detection of descriptor Markov jump systems (Jan. 2006 -- Jun. 2007)
Grant: National Science Foundation of China (no. 60574026)
Non-concentrating two phase flow measurement method by using the vertical multiple electrodes array conductance sensors (Jan. 2004 -- Jun. 2005)
Grant: National Science Foundation of China (no. 60374041)
Reviewer
Automatica
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
IEEE Control Systems Magazine
IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
IET Control Theory & Applications
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
Asian Journal of Control
Journal of Control Theory and Applications
Journal of Optimization Theory and Technology (Original title: Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications)
Journal of Control and Decision
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
International Journal of Systems Science
SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences
ACC, CDC, IFAC, TRB, ICCA, ICARCV, CCC, etc.
Conference Support
Associate editor of ICCA 2017
Technical program committee (TPC) member & invited session co-chair of ICARCV 2016
Session chair of MED 2015
Technical program committee (TPC) member of ICARCV 2014
Invited session co-chair of ICCA 2013
Technical program committee (TPC) member of ICARCV 2012
Invited Talks and Conference Presentations
"Control over communication networks and transportation networks," at ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China, Jun. 2016.
"Fundamentals of traffic signal control," at Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore, Mar. 2016.
"Further study on extended back-pressure traffic signal control algorithm," at the 54th IEEE Conferenceon Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, Dec. 2015.
"Extended back-pressure traffic signal control algorithm," at Future Urban Mobility Symposium, Singapore, Jul. 2015.
"Throughput optimality of extended back-pressure traffic signal control algorithm," at the 23rd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Torremolinos, Spain, Jun. 2015.
"Pressure releasing policy in traffic signal control with finite queue capacities," at Future Urban Mobility Symposium, Singapore, Jan. 2014; also at the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, USA, Dec. 2014.
"Average strategy fictitious play with application to road pricing," at the American Control Conference, Washington DC, USA, Jun. 2013.
"Distributed consensus in noncooperative congestion games: an application to road pricing," at the 10th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Hangzhou, China, Jun. 2013.
"Road pricing based on game theory and cooperative control theory," at Future Urban Mobility Symposium, Singapore, Jan. 2013.
"A game theoretic approach for road pricing: case study of Singapore," at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, invited by Prof. Shaoyuan LI and Prof. Xiaofan WANG, Jan. 2013.
"Road pricing for spreading peak travel: modeling and design," at Future Urban Mobility Symposium, Singapore, January 2012; also at the 17th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, Hong Kong, China, Dec. 2012.
"Feedback stabilization over stochastic multiplicative input channels: continuous-time case," at the 11th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Singapore, Dec. 2010.
"Networked control over fading channels," at the 6th IEEE Control Systems Singapore Chapter Graduate Student Workshop, Singapore, Oct. 2010.
"Mean square stabilization of multi-input systems over stochastic multiplicative channels," at the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, Dec. 2009.
"Stabilization of multi-input systems over fading channels," at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, invited by Prof. Li QIU, Jul. 2009.
"Analysis and design of networked control systems over unreliable channels," at South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, invited by Prof. Weizhou SU, Jun. 2009.
Publications
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