Education background:

I received the B.Eng. degree in automatic control from East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, in 2011, and the M.Sc. degree with Distinction in control systems from University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K., in 2012. From 2010 to 2011, I was an exchange student at University of Dundee, Dundee, U.K. I graduated with the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, in 2017. 

Honors and Awards:

• Stanford University’s Top 2% of the Most-Cited Scientists (2024)

• Stanford University’s Top 2% of the Most-Cited Scientists (2023)

• Outstanding Reviewer Award for IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (2021)

• Outstanding Reviewer Award for International Journal of Automation and Computing (2018)

• Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad (2017)

• Vice-Chancellor's Research Scholarship (2013-2017)

Research interests: 

• Multi-Agent Systems

• Intelligent Robotics

• Fixed-Time Consensus

• Bio-Inspired Cooperative Control

• Intelligent Vehicles

• Smart Grids

Teaching experience: 

• Digital Control (ENEL809),                                                                                             Auckland University of Technology, S1 2025

• Engineering Dynamics (MEE20006),                                             Swinburne University of Technology, S2 2023, S2 2024

• Digital and Data Systems (ENG10004),                                            Swinburne University of Technology, S2 2018, S1 2019

• Robotics and Mechatronics Project (RME10001),    Swinburne University of Technology, S1 2015, S1 2016, S1 2017

• Electrical Actuators and Sensors (RME20001),                         Swinburne University of Technology, S2 2015, S2 2016

• Introduction to Networking Engineering (UNIT8741),             University of Canberra (Melbourne), S1 2017, S1 2018

• Network Architecture (UNIT9428),                                                      University of Canberra (Melbourne), S2 2017, S2 2018

Book: 

• Lei Ding, Qing-Long Han, and Boda Ning, Distributed control and optimization of networked microgrids: A multi-agent system based approach, Springer, 161 pages, ISBN: 978-3-030-95028-6, 2022

• Zongyu Zuo, Qing-Long Han, and Boda Ning, Fixed-time cooperative control of multi-agent systems, Springer, 153 pages, ISBN: 978-3-030-20278-1, 2019

Journal articles (recent): 

Survey Paper

1. Boda Ning, Qing-Long Han, and Lei Ding, A brief overview of recent advances in distributed accelerated secondary control for islanded AC microgrids, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, doi: 10.1109/TII.2025.3570749, May 2025.

2. Xian-Ming Zhang, Qing-Long Han, Xiaohua Ge, Boda Ning, and Bao-Lin Zhang, Sampled-data control systems with non-uniform sampling: A survey of methods and trends, Annual Reviews in Control, vol. 55, pp. 70-91, May 2023.

3. Boda Ning, Qing-Long Han, Zongyu Zuo, Lei Ding, Qiang Lu, and Xiaohua Ge, Fixed-time and prescribed-time consensus control of multi-agent systems and its applications: A survey of recent trends and methodologies, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, doi: 10.1109/TII.2022.3201589, August 2022.

4. Zongyu Zuo, Qing-Long Han, Boda Ning, Xiaohua Ge, and Xian-Ming Zhang, An overview of recent advances in fixed-time cooperative control of multi-agent systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 2322-2334, June 2018.

5. Xiaohua Ge, Qing-Long Han, Derui Ding, Xian-Ming Zhang, and Boda Ning, A survey on recent advances in distributed sampled-data cooperative control of multi-agent systems, Neurocomputing, vol. 275, pp. 1684-1701, January 2018.

Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy

1. Boda Ning, Qing-Long Han, Zongyu Zuo, and Lei Ding, Accelerated secondary frequency regulation and active power sharing for islanded microgrids with external disturbances: A fully distributed approach, Automatica, vol. 174, art. no. 112146, April 2025.

2. Boda Ning, Qing-Long Han, and Lei Ding, Distributed finite-time secondary frequency and voltage control for islanded microgrids with communication delays and switching topologies, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 51, no. 8, pp. 3988-3999, August 2021.

3. Boda Ning, Qing-Long Han, and Lei Ding, Distributed secondary control of AC microgrids with external disturbances and directed communication topologies: A full-order sliding-mode approach, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 554-564, March 2021.

4. Lei Ding, Qing-Long Han, Boda Ning, and Dong Yue, Distributed resilient finite-time secondary control for heterogeneous battery energy storage systems under denial-of-service attacks, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 4909-4919, July 2020.

Intelligent Vehicles

1. Boda Ning, Qing-Long Han, Xiaohua Ge, and Jay Sanjayan, A zeroing neural network-based approach to parameter-varying platooning control of connected automated vehicles, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1977-1988, January 2024.

Cable-Driven Robotic Systems

1. Boda Ning, Qing-Long Han, Jay Sanjayan, Weiwei Shang, and Wai Yi Lam, Robust trajectory tracking control for cable-driven parallel robots with model uncertainty, Control Engineering Practice, art. no. 105662, November 2023.

Robotic Network Control

1. Boda Ning, Qing-Long Han, Qiang Lu, and Jay Sanjayan, Cooperative control of multi-robot systems subject to control gain uncertainty, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics,  vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 5367-5376, April 2023.

2. Boda Ning, Qing-Long Han, and Qiang Lu, Fixed-time leader-following consensus for multiple wheeled mobile robots, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 50, no. 10, pp. 4381-4392, October 2020.

3. Boda Ning, Qing-Long Han, Zongyu Zuo, Jiong Jin, and Jinchuan Zheng, Collective behaviors of mobile robots beyond the nearest neighbor rules with switching topology, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 48, no. 5, pp. 1577-1590, May 2018.

4. Boda Ning, Jiong Jin, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Jinchuan Zheng, and Zhihong Man, Two-stage deployment strategy for wireless robotic networks via a class of interaction models, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 47, no. 7, pp. 1510-1521, July 2017.

Distributed Optimization

1. Boda Ning, Qing-Long Han, and Zongyu Zuo, Distributed optimization of multiagent systems with preserved network connectivity, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 49, no. 11, pp. 3980-3990, November 2019. 

2. Boda Ning, Qing-Long Han, and Zongyu Zuo, Distributed optimization for multiagent systems: An edge-based fixed-time consensus approach, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 122-132, January 2019.

Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems

1. Boda Ning and Qing-Long Han, Order-preserved preset-time cooperative control: A monotone system-based approach, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 1603-1611, September 2022.

2. Boda Ning, Xinghuo Yu, Qing-Long Han, Zhenwei Cao, Guanghui Wen, and Zhihong Man, Settling time estimation in synchronization of impulsive networks with switching topologies, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 2386-2397, April 2022.

3. Boda Ning, Qing-Long Han, and Zongyu Zuo, Bipartite consensus tracking for second-order multi-agent systems: A time-varying function-based preset-time approach, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 66, no. 6, pp. 2739-2745, June 2021.

4. Boda Ning, Xinghuo Yu, Guanghui Wen, and Zhenwei Cao, Finite-time bipartite tracking control for double-integrator networked systems with cooperative and antagonistic interactions, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 67, no. 12, pp. 5223-5232, December 2020.

5. Zongyu Zuo, Qing-Long Han, and Boda Ning, An explicit estimate for the upper bound of the settling time in fixed-time leader-following consensus of high-order multi-variable multi-agent systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 66, no. 8, pp. 6250-6259, August 2019.

6. Boda Ning, Qing-Long Han, and Zongyu Zuo, Practical fixed-time consensus for integrator-type multi-agent systems: A time base generator approach, Automatica, vol. 105, pp. 406-414, July 2019.

7. Boda Ning and Qing-Long Han, Prescribed finite-time consensus tracking for multi-agent systems with nonholonomic chained-form dynamics, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 1686-1693, April 2019.