Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor School of Control Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology (DUT)
“Changjiang Scholar” Distinguished Professor (Ministry of Education)
Chief Scientist, National Key R&D Program of China
Director, Institute of Intelligent Control

🔬 Research Focus

• Multi-agent Systems: Distributed control, optimization, and coordination under communication constraints and dynamic topologies.
• Learning & Games: Reinforcement learning and game-theoretic confrontation.
• Robotics: Multi-robot collaborative control and autonomous manipulation (UAVs/UGVs).

📈 Publications & Impact

• 1 English Monograph published by Springer.
• 150+ peer-reviewed papers in core journals and conferences (80+ SCI-indexed).
• Top-Tier Journal Record (First/Corresponding Author):
  • 6 papers in Automatica (including 5 Full/Regular Papers).
  • 4 papers in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
  • 40+ papers in other IEEE Transactions (e.g., TNNLS, TCYB).
• 5,000+ Google Scholar Citations; recognized by 30+ Academicians and IEEE Fellows.
• 16 Authorized Invention Patents and 5 Software Copyrights.

💼 Research Projects (PI)

• National Key R&D Program of China (Chief Scientist)
• Key Projects & General Programs, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
• Joint Fund of the Ministry of Education for Equipment Pre-research
• Basic Research Strengthening Program (JKW)
• “Xingliao Talents” Youth Top-notch Program of Liaoning Province

🏆 Honors & Professional Service

• Honors:
  • Best Conference Paper Award (Unmanned Systems), 2nd Int. Conf. on Intelligent Automation and System Safety (2025).
  • Hot Paper Award, SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences (2024).
  • Second Prize (twice), Natural Science Award of Liaoning Province.
  • Second Prize, Wu Wenjun AI Natural Science Award.
  • Guan Zhao-Zhi Award Nomination, 36th Chinese Control Conference (2017).
• Leadership & Service:
  • Senior Member, IEEE.
  • Secretary-General, 36th Chinese Control Conference (CCC) & 25th Chinese Process Control Conference (CPCC).
  • Vice Director, Youth Working Committee of Chinese Institute of Command and Control (CICC).
  • Associate Editor, Information Sciences and Neurocomputing.

🎓 Education History

2009.09 - 2010.09 | Joint Ph.D. Researcher, Systems Engineering Boston University, USA (Advisor: Prof. Christo Cassandras)

2006.02 - 2010.10 | Ph.D. in Control Science and Engineering Dalian University of Technology (Advisor: Prof. Wei Wang)

2003.09 - 2006.04 | M.S. in Information Science and Engineering Shenyang University of Technology (Advisor: Prof. Jinxue Xu)

1999.09 - 2003.07 | B.S. in Electrical Engineering Shenyang University of Technology

💼 Work Experience

2025.08 - Present | “Changjiang Scholar” Distinguished Professor
Ministry of Education, China

2019.11 - Present | Professor & Ph.D. Supervisor (Supervisor since 2015.07)
School of Control Science and Engineering, DUT

2019.08 - 2022.10 | Young Changjiang Scholar
Ministry of Education, China

2015.10 - 2016.10 | Visiting Associate Professor
Dept. of Systems Engineering, University of Notre Dame, USA

2014.12 - 2019.10 | Associate Professor
School of Control Science and Engineering, DUT

2010.11 - 2014.11 | Lecturer
School of Control Science and Engineering, DUT