13 August 2025
I have been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering / Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow, one of 8 recipients across the UK.
1 August 2025
I have been promoted to a Professor of Autonomous Systems at the University of Glasgow.
20 - 23 July 2025
Working with my wonderful colleagues, I organised the ICDCS 2025 as the Workshop Chair.
19 April 2025
Mr Zhaoan Ye and Mr Boyu Chen are awarded the Student Support Grant to attend the ICDCS 2025.
6 February 2025
Congratulations to Zhen Tian for successfully passing the PhD viva with only 1-month minor correction!
25 January 2025
I participated in the IEEE Senior Membership evaluation as a panelist.
29 November 2024
I was awarded the exchange grant "Trustworthy Perception and Safe Control of Automated Heavy-Duty Vehicle Platoons in Extreme Scenarios" from the Royal Society.
28 October 2024
I was awarded the EPSRC Network+ grant "UK Open Multimodal AI Network (UKOMAIN)" with partners from Universities of Sheffield, Cambridge and Southampton.
4 September 2024
I gave a keynote at the CSCST-SCI Conference held at University of Surrey.
12 August 2024
Collaborating with colleagues from 8 universities, our consortium has secured the EPSRC Digital Twinning Research Hub for Decarbonising Transport (TransiT). This initiative represents a significant £46 million investment from EPSRC, supported by 67 partners. TransiT is co-led by the University of Glasgow and Heriot-Watt University.
15 July - 17 July 2024
I attended the Annual Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference at University of Oxford and presented our paper on autonomous racing. See the full paper at Balanced reward-inspired reinforcement learning for autonomous vehicle racing (mlr.press)
11 July 2024
Our paper "Safe and robust data-driven cooperative control policy for mixed vehicle platoons" is certified as the Top Downloaded Article in 2022 by the Wiley press.
25 June 2024
I attended the MultimodalAI'24 workshop at The University of Sheffield.
12 March 2024
Congratulations to Harikrishnan Vijayakumar for successfully passing the PhD viva with only 1-month minor correction!
1 March 2024
I am selected to a Turing Fellow by The Alan Turing Institute, one of 51 recipients across the UK.
13 October 2023
Our paper "A decentralized cooperative coverage control for networked multiple UAVs based on deep reinforcement learning" won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems.
17 August 2023
Miss Yihe Xu, the undergraduate I supervised, won the Best Overall Project in the Summer School at University of Glasgow.
1 August 2023
I am promoted to Reader in Autonomous Systems at University of Glasgow.
9 July - 14 July 2023
I attended the IFAC World Congress and gave an interactive presentation at Yokohama, Japan.
29 May - 1 June 2023
I attended the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation at London, UK.
9 May 2023
Congratulations to Weihao Lu for successfully passing the PhD viva with only 1-month minor correction!
26 January 2023
Congratulations to Jinsong Yang for successfully passing the PhD viva with only 1-month minor correction!
24 November 2022
Mr Ewan Hamilton, the MEng student I supervised, won the GU68 Engineers Trust Funding to support his final year project.
28-30 October 2022
I worked as the invited session chair for the 6th CAA International Conference on Vehicular Control and Intelligence.
28 September 2022
I am ranked in the top 4% of EPSRC College Members for participating in peer review activities during the academic year 2020-2021.
8 September 2022
We secured a NSFC Standard Grant 'Safe and Trustworthy Decision-making and Planning for Joint Knowledge-and-Data-Driven Autonomous Driving Systems' while I work as a Co-I.
1 Stptember 2022
I am appointed to the Deputy Head for the Research Division of Autonomous Systems and Connectivity at James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow.
18-22 July 2022
I attended the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence at Padua, Italy.
27 June 2022
We organised the workshop of Connected Autonomous Systems.
11 June 2022
I am appointed to the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles.
26 April 2022
I am appointed to the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
09 November 2021
The Reinvigorating Research Fund of University of Glasgow was awarded to me and my colleagues.
08 November 2021
The Equipment Fund of University of Glasgow was awarded to me and my colleagues.
30 October 2021
I won the Excellent Solution Award in the Innovation Competition held at Deqing, China.
16 October 2021
Our paper "Implementing Trajectory Tracking Control Algorithm for Autonomous Vehicle" won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems.
03 September 2021
Miss Yueyang Ying, the undergraduate I supervised, won the Best Overall Project in the Rsearch Summer School at University of Glasgow.
23 August 2021
Dr Jianglin Lan won the prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and will rejoin us in 2022.
01 December 2020
I moved to University of Glasgow as a Senior Lecturer in Autonomous Systems.
12 October 2020
I am promoted to a Full Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College.
29 June 2020
My work on mixed autonomous traffic systems has been reported by the Department of AAE as "Better Together".
31 March 2020
I have been awarded a Royal Society Newton Advanced Fellowship, one of 25 recipients across the UK.
31 January 2020
I officially finished my academic probation within 2.5 years.
11-13 December 2019
I attended the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control at Nice, France.
28 November 2019
I am granted the Fellowship of Higher Education Academy.
04 - 12 September 2019
I interviewed MSc applicants and visited university partners (BJUT and SUES) on behalf of Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering at Beijing and Shanghai, China.
01 August 2019
I started serving as an media expert in future mobility systems for Loughborough University.
10 and 12 July 2019
As the session chairs of Control of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles and Human Closed-Loop System Interactions for Uncertain Systems, I gave two presentations at American Control Conference in Philadelphia, US.
11 April 2019
I gave a presentation in the session of AI & Machine Learning of SAE Congress at Detroit, US.
27 February 2019
My poster "Intelligent Low Carbon Vehicles via Dynamic Model Learning" won the second prize in the poster competition of Future Powertrain Conference.
12 February 2019
I am invited to chair the 2019 ACC session "Control of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles" at Philadelphia, US.
07 February 2019
I won the AAE Capital Equipment Funding.
19 November 2018
I won the third prize in the ABB endowed Intelligent Systems Paper Competition.
24 September 2018
I won the British Council - NSFC travel grant to attend the UK-China Research Links Workshop on the Electrification of Road Transport.
06 August 2018
I started to serve as the Member of the UKRI Future Leader Fellowship Peer Review College.
21 July 2018
My profile and research have been included in the EPSRC Fellow Gallery.
04 July 2018
I started to serve as an Associate Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College.
02 July 2018
My low carbon autonomous research was reported as "Research story of June 2018" in Loughborough University.
07 June 2018
I won the EPSRC Capital Award with my colleague, Senior Lecturer in Unmanned Vehicles, Dr Cunjia Liu.
29 May 2018
I am awarded an EPSRC Innovation Fellowship, one of 62 recipients across the UK. This 3-year fellowship supports my research on "Towards energy efficient autonomous vehicles via cloud-aided learning".
08 March 2018
Our poster prizes were reported by the Department of AAE: "AAE Delegates win Poster Prizes at Future Powertrains Conference 2018".
28 February 2018
My poster "Vehicle Energy Recovery through an Intelligent Turbo Assist System" won the first prize in the poster competition of Future Powertrain Conference.
18 November 2017
I am elevated to an IEEE Senior Member.
01 July 2017
I am appointed to a Lecturer in Intelligent Systems at Loughborough University by winning the prestigious global Excellent 100 Campaign.