Weinan Gao, Ph.D. 高伟男
Email: gaown [dot] mail [at] neu [dot] edu[dot] cn
Professor, IEEE Senior Member, Stanford's Top 2% Most Highly Citied Scientist
State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Automation for Process Industries
Northeastern University
Shenyang, China, 110819
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Education
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, New York University, 2017 (Advisor: Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang)
M.S., Control Theory and Control Engineering, Northeastern University CN, 2013 (Advisor: Prof. Tianyou Chai)
B.S., Automation, Northeastern University CN, 2011
Professional Appointments
2022-Now: Professor, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
2020-2022: Assistant Professor, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne FL USA
2017- 2020: Assistant Professor, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro GA USA
2018: Visiting Professor, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, Cambridge MA USA
Area of Expertise
Reinforcement Learning
Adaptive Dynamic Programming
Output Regulation
Optimal Control
Networked Control Systems
Cooperative Control
Sampled-data Systems
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Connected Vehicles & Autonomous Vehicles
Awards
Best Paper Award, IEEE Interational Conference on Control, Automation and Information Systems, 2023
Best Paper Award, IEEE Data Driven Control and Learning Systems Conference, 2023
Engineering Research Initiation Award, US-NSF, 2022
Outstanding Reviewer Award, IET Control Theory and Applications, 2019
David Goodman Research Award, Dept. ECE, New York University, 2019
Faculty Development Summer Award, Georgia Southern University, 2019
Best Paper Award, IEEE RCAR, 2018
Faculty Development Travel Award, Georgia Southern University, 2017, 2019
Undergraduate Research Award, Mentor, Georgia Southern University, 2017-2018
Best Paper Award, IEEE UEMCON, 2017
Student Travel Award, American Control Conference, 2015, 2016, 2017
Provost Fellowship, at New York University, 2013
China National Graduate Scholarship, 2012
China National Undergraduate Scholarship, 2010
Meritorious Winner, in the International Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2010