Conference Program of WCICA 2012

WCICA 2012
Plenary Panel Sessions
gineering Award from Chinese Automatic Control Society (CACS) in 2000, the Lee Kuo-Ding Medal from
Chinese Institute of Information and Computing Machinery in 2000, the Industry-Academia Collaboration
Award from in 2004, the TECO Technology Award in 2005, and Distinguished Research Fellowship from
National Science Council during 2001-2007. Internationally, he has been awarded IEEE Fellow since
2004, and has been elected to be a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
during 2004-2005 and 2007.
Xiaoming Hu was born in Chengdu, China. He received the B.S. degree from University of Science and
Technology of China in 1983. He received the M.S. and PhD degrees from Arizona State University in 1986
and 1989 respectively, under the guidance of Professor Christopher I. Byrnes. He served as a research
assistant at the Institute of Automation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, from 1983 to 1984. From 1989
to 1990 he was a Gustafsson Postdoctoral Fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, where
he is a full professor of Optimization and Systems Theory since October 2003, and a vice director of the
Center for Autonomous Systems. He is also a member of the executive committee of ACCESS Linnaeus
Centre, established at KTH in 2006 through a ten-year 100 Million SEK grant from the Swedish Research
Council. He held an S.S. Chern guest professorship at Nankai University, and is now also a member of
the International Research Team on Complex Systems of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Xiaoming Hu has led or participated in many research projects sponsored by EU, the Swedish Research
Council, the Swedish Strategic Research Foundation, the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration,
and the Swedish National Space Board. His main research interests are in complex and networked
systems, active sensing and perception, control of multi-agent systems, nonlinear observer design, and
mobile manipulation. He has published more than 100 technical papers in journals and international
conference proceedings. Xiaoming Hu has been involved in the organization or program committee of
many international conferences. In particular, he was one of the initiators of the very successful bilateral
conference-Chinese-Swedish Control Conference, which has so-far been held five times in Sweden and
China alternately.
Zhong-Ping JIANG (M’94, SM’02, F’08) received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University
of Wuhan, Wuhan, China, in 1988, the M.Sc. degree in statistics from the University of Paris XI, France,
in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree in automatic control and mathematics from the Ecole des Mines de Paris,
France, in 1993.
Currently he is a Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute
of New York University (formerly called Polytechnic University), and an affiliated Changjiang Chair Professor
at Beijing University. His main research interests include stability theory, the theory of robust and
adaptive nonlinear control, and their applications to underactuated mechanical systems, communication
networks, multi-agent systems, smart grids and systems physiology. He is coauthor of the book Stability
and Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems (with I. Karafyllis, Springer 2011).
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Jiang is a Subject Editor for the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear
Control and has served as an Associate Editor for several journals including Systems & Control Letters,
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, European Journal of Control and J. Control Theory and Applications.
Dr. Jiang is a recipient of the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship Award from the Australian
Research Council, the CAREER Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the Young Investigator
Award from the NSF of China. He received the Best Theory Paper Award (with Y. Wang) at the 2008
World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, and with T. Liu and D.J. Hill, the Guan Zhao-Zhi
Best Paper Award at the 2011 Chinese Control Conference.
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