CEESI Colloquium, Nov. 11th, Qianchuan Zhao
Qianchuan Zhao
Professor of Dept. Automation, Tsinghua University
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 11:00 AM
15 St. Mary’s Street, Room 105
Overview of Joint Research on Comfort, Security and Energy Savings Building Control in Tsinghua University
Energy saving draws people’s attention recently world-wide. In this talk, I would like to provide an overview of some related activities at Tsinghua University. My focus will be on how joint work has been done so that a building control problem is studied from a system point of view with constraints/objective functions reflecting comfort, security and energy saving requirements.
Qianchuan Zhao received the B.E. degree in automatic control in July 1992, the B.S. degree in applied mathematics in July 1992, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in control theory and its applications in July 1996, all from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is currently a Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Intelligent and Networked Systems (CFINS) http://cfins.au.tsinghua.edu.cn, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University. He was a Visiting Scholar at Carnegie Mellon University (worked with Prof. Bruce Krogh), Pittsburgh, PA, and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, in 2000 and 2002, respectively. He was a Visiting Professor at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 2006. His current research focuses on the modeling, control and optimization of complex networked systems. He has published more than 80 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is a recipient of the 4th HO PAN QING YI best paper award in DEDS field in the year 2000, the 9th Guan Zhao-Zhi Award best paper award in the year 2003 and the 2005 UTRC Outstanding Achievement Award. Dr. Zhao is an associate editor for the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, an associate editor for the joint conference CDC-ECC’05 and International Program Committee member for WODES’04. He is a senior member of IEEE.
Hosting Professor: Christos Cassandras
