Research Experience

  • May 2021 - April 2022

Research Associate, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK

Working on Assured Autonomy DARPA program with Prof. Alessio Lomuscio.

  • December 2020 - April 2021

Research Associate, James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK

Working on EPSRC Innovation Fellow project “Towards Energy Efficient Autonomous Vehicles via Cloud-Aided Learning” with Dr Dezong Zhao.

  • November 2018 - November 2020

Research Associate, Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, University of Loughborough, UK

Working on EPSRC Innovation Fellow project “Towards Energy Efficient Autonomous Vehicles via Cloud-Aided Learning” with Dr Dezong Zhao.

  • August 2017 – November 2018

Research Associate, Rolls-Royce Control & Monitoring Systems University Technology Centre, University of Sheffield, UK

Leading the Multi-Disciplinary Modelling and Control work programme, working on advanced control and optimization for gas turbine engine.

  • April 2011 – September 2011

Student Researcher, Real-time Monitoring and Transmission Technology Centre, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, China

Working on large-scale wireless sensor networks and parking lot navigation.

Education

  • Ph.D., September 2014 – August 2017, University of Hull, UK

Subject: Control and Intelligent Systems Engineering

Thesis: Robust Model-based Fault Estimation and Fault-Tolerant Control: Towards an Integration

Advisors: Prof. Ron J. Patton and Dr. Ming Hou

  • M.Sc., September 2011 – July 2014, South China University of Technology, China

Subject: Control Theory and Control Engineering

Thesis: Barrier Lyapunov Function based Robust Constrained Nonlinear Output Regulation

Advisors: Prof. Zhendong Sun and Dr. Weijie Sun

  • B.Eng., September 2007 – July 2011, South China Agricultural University, China

Subject: Automation

Thesis: Chaotic Genetic Algorithm for Multi-Objective QoS Multicast Routing Optimization

Advisor: Prof. En Zou

Presentation Experience

  • May 2018, Invited Talk, University of Sheffield, UK

Title: Robust Model-based Fault Estimation and Fault-Tolerant Control: Towards an Integration

  • July 2017, 20th IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France

Title: Fault-Tolerant Tracking Control for A 3-DOF Helicopter with Actuator Faults and Saturation

  • September 2016, 3rd International Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems, Barcelona, Spain

Title: Integrated Fault Estimation and Fault-Tolerant Control Design for Large-Scale Interconnected Systems

  • December 2015, IEEE 54th Annual Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan

Title: Integrated Design of Robust Fault Estimation and Fault-Tolerant Control for Linear Systems

  • July 2015, 8th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Title: Robust Fault-Tolerant Control based on a Functional Observer for Linear Descriptor Systems

  • June 2014, 26th Chinese Control and Decision Conference, Changsha, China

Title: Constrained Robust Output Regulation for a Class of Nonlinear Systems with Unknown Control Direction

Professional Service

  • IEEE Member

  • PhD thesis evaluation

1. Committee member for evaluating a PhD thesis from Universitat Jaume I, Spain, July 2019.

  • Technical reviewer

Journals:

IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlAutomatica Systems & Control Letters IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: SystemsIEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsIEEE Transactions on Vehicular TechnologyIEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal ProcessingJournal of Franklin InstituteInternational Journal of Control Automation and SystemsRenewable Energy Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Aerospace Science and Technology

Conferences:

International Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant SystemsAmerican Control ConferenceChinese Control and Decision ConferenceIFAC World Congress IFAC SafeProcess International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)

Honors & Awards

  • 2022 - 2025, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship & University of Glasgow LKAS Fellowship

  • 2015, Excellent M.Sc. Thesis Award, South China University of Technology

  • 2015, Research Paper Award, South China University of Technology

  • 2011, Excellent B.Eng. Thesis Award, South China Agricultural University

  • 2009, 3rd Prize in School-Level Science Innovative Project, South China Agricultural University

  • 2008, 2nd Prize in Provincial-Level CUMCM-2008, CUMCM Committee, China

  • 2008 - 2011, National Encouragement Scholarship, Ministry of Education, China

  • 2007 - 2011, B.Eng. Scholarship, South China Agricultural University

Languages

Mandarin, English