Tiancheng Li

Professor, School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China.

I received two bachelor’s degrees from Harbin Engineering University, China, in 2008, the first Ph.D. degree from London South Bank University, U.K., in 2013 and the second Doctoral degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), China, in 2015. He is currently a Professor with the School of Automation, NPU. Prior to this, I had been a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Researcher with the BISITE Group, University of Salamanca, Spain, from June 2014 to the fall of 2018, and a Visiting Scholar with the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in the summer of 2017 and in the fall of 2018.

I am the Area Editor of the Elsevier journal Information Fusion, and an Associate Editor of several peer-reviewing journals including FITEE since 2018. He is the General Chair of the 10th International Conference on Control, Automation and Information Sciences (ICCAIS 2021) and Session/Program Chair for conferences sponsored by IEEE such as FUSION, ICCAIS, DCAI since 2015.

My research interests cover the general areas of statistical signal processing and information fusion. They can be categorized as follows.

Distributed Information Fusion and Sensor Networking (for tracking), Average Consensus for Positioning and Tracking. particularly the multi-target (probability hypothesis) density arithmetic average (AA) fusion approach which is a renaissance of the classic linear opinion pooling

Finite Set Statistics, Sequential Monte Carlo (particle filter) methods

Sensor data mining-and-learning-based algorithms for advanced Multi-agent Multi-object Detection, Tracking, and Forecasting. particularly the trajectory function of time (T-FoT) approach which aims to the direct estimation of the continuous time target trajectory

In simple words, LiTiC (Localization, Tracking, multiagent interacting and Collaboration)