Distinguished Professor (ECE, SE)
Head of the Division of Systems Engineering

• Primary Appointment ECE
• Education PhD, Harvard University, 1982
• Additional Affiliations Division of Systems Engineering (Head)
  Center for Information and Systems Engineering
  Clean Energy and Environmental Sustainability Initiative
• Honors and Awards Fellow, IEEE, 1996
  Fellow, IFAC, 2008
  Fellow, IETI, 2018
  
  Harold Chestnut Prize, IFAC Best Control Engineering Textbook, 1999
  IEEE Control Systems Technology Award, 2011
  Distinguished Member Award, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2006
  Zhu Kezhen Award, 2012
  EEE Distinguished Lecturer, 2001-2004
  2014 IBM/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge competition prize (student team led by Theodora Brisimi)
  2011 IBM/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge competition prize (student team led by Yanfeng Geng)
  Lilly Fellow, 1991 – 1992
  Kern Fellow, 2012
  
  Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1998-2009
  Department Editor, Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, 1989-Present
  Editor, Automatica, 2015-present
  Senior Editor, Journal of Control and Decision, 2013-Present
  
  President, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2012
  Chair Professor, Tsinghua University, 2014-present
  Honorary Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2003
  Honorary Professor, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, 2003
  
  Plenary/Keynote Speaker, 36 international conferences
• Classes Taught SE/EC/ME 733 Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems
  EK 500 Probability and Statistical Methods
• Areas of Interest Analysis and control of discrete event and hybrid systems
  Stochastic control and optimization
  Distributed systems and cooperative control
  Dynamic control of computer/communication and sensor networks
  Performance analysis and control of manufacturing systems
  Computer simulation
  Performance analysis and control of transportation systems
  Smart Cities