Distributed Estimation and Control;
Internet of Vehicles;
Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks and Applications;
Multi-agent Systems

Ph.D.- Dept. of Manufacturing Engg. & Engg. Management, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, 2006
M.Eng.- Dept. of Automation, Yanshan University, P. R. China, 2002
B.Eng.- Dept. of Automation, Yanshan University, P. R. China, 2000

-Professor, Dept. of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, January 2014-present
-Associate Professor, Dept. of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, April 2008-December 2013
-Associate Professor, Dept. of Automation, Yanshan University, China, May 2006-March 2008
-Visiting Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, Sept. 2013-March 2014
-Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of EEE, University of Manchester, UK, Oct. 2006-March 2008
-Senior Research Associate, Dept. of Manufacturing Engg. & Engg. Management, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, February 2006-May 2006

Prof. Chen is the principal investigator of 12 projects including 3 granted by NSF of China. She was also the co-investigator of 10 projects.
In the area of control and systems, Dr. Chen proposed a novel double-criterion premise rule for fuzzy model to represent complex nonlinear systems with time delays. It is recognized as the first stabilization result for delay-dependent nonlinear time-delay systems based on T-S fuzzy model. The proposed “Piecewise-Fuzzy” Partition Method is highly cited by researchers. She also designed the high-gain controller and applied semi-global stability analysis to reject non-harmonic disturbances successfully.
In the area of wireless networks, Dr. Chen presented some important results on stability analysis, distributed estimation, routing protocol design, capacity analysis for wireless sensor and actor networks, VANETs and industrial wireless networks.
Three supportive testbeds and platforms are constructed for evaluation and potential application research.

Awards:
1. IEEE Transaction on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Intelligent Computation Society, June 2008
2. First Prize of Natural Science Award, The Ministry of Education of China, Jan. 2007
3. Advisor, Honorary Student Project Award (The Second Runner-up), 2013 IEEE ComSoc Student Competition, December 2013
4. Advisor, First Prize of National Virtual Instrument Competition, May 2013
5. Excellent Advisor, First Prize of NI Final-Year Project Competition, August 2013
6. Outstanding Paper Award, The 16th Youth Conference of Chinese Institute of Electronics, September 2010

Honors:
1. New Century Excellent Talents in University, Ministry of Education of China, September 2013
2. "Shanghai Rising-Star", Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipal, China, July 2013
3. "Pujiang Scholar", Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipal, China, July 2009
4. "Chenguang Scholar", Education Commission of Shanghai Municipal, China, June 2009
5. "SMC Outstanding Young Faculty"(Class B), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, November 2009
6. “Meet The Scientist” Researcher, EPSRC, U.K., 2007

-Principals of Automatic Control (in Chinese), for Year-3 undergraduate students, 2008, 2009, 2010
-Principals of Automatic Control (in Chinese), for Year-3 undergraduate students, 2012
-Network System and Control, for "IEEE Class" Students, 2014

Selected Publications and Recent Submissions
[1] Jing Yan, Cailian Chen, Xiaoyuan Luo, Hao Liang, Xinping Guan, Xian Yang, Topology optimization based distributed estimation in relay assisted wireless sensor networks, Submitted to IET Control Theory & Applications, 2014.
[2] Lingya Liu, Cunqing Hua, Cailian Chen, Xinping Guan, Relay selection for three-stage relaying scheme in clustered wireless networks, Submitted to IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology, 2013.
[3] Shanying Zhu, Lihua Xie, Cailian Chen and Xinping Guan, Collective behavior of mobile agents with state-dependent interactions, Automatica, 2014. (Revised)
[4] Lingya Liu, Cunqing Hua, Cailian Chen, Xinping Guan, Power Allocation for Virtual MIMO-based Three-Stage Relaying in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, 2014. (Revised)
[5] Hua Li, Cunqing Hua, Cailian Chen and Xinping Guan, ADS-B aided robust relay selection for cooperative communications in aircraft approach, Int. J. of Communication Systems, 2013. (Revised)
[6] Rong Du, Cailian Chen, Bo Yang, Ning Lu, Xinping Guan, Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, Effective urban traffic monitoring by vehicular sensor networks, IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology, 2014. (SCI, Accepted)
[7] Jianting Yue, Bo Yang, Cailian Chen, Xinping Guan, Chasing the most popular video: an evolutionary video clip selection, IEEE Communication Letters, 2014. (SCI, Accepted)
[8] Qiaoni Han, Bo Yang, Xiaocheng Wang, Kai Ma, Cailian Chen, Xinping Guan, Hierarchical game based uplink power control in Femtocell networks, IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology, 2014. (SCI, To appear)
[9] Hua Li, Cunqing Hua, Cailian Chen and Xinping Guan, Relay Selection for Cooperative Communications with Guaranteed Outage Probability, IET Communications, 2013. (SCI, Accepted)
[10] Jing Yan, Xinping Guan, Xiaoyuan Luo and Cailian Chen, Formation control and obstacle avoidance for multi-agent systems based on virtual leader-follower strategy, Int. J. of Information Technology & Decision Making, 2014. (Accepted, SCI)
[11] Shanying Zhu, Cailian Chen and Xinping Guan, Distributed optimal consensus filter for target tracking in heterogeneous sensor networks, IEEE Trans. Cybernetics, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 1963-1976, 2013. (Regular paper, SCI)
[12] Shanying Zhu, Cailian Chen and Xinping Guan, Consensus protocol for heterogeneous multi-agent systems: A Markov chain approach, Chinese Physics B, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 018901-1-5, 2013. (SCI)
[13] Jing Yan, Xinping Guan, Xiaoyuan Luo and Cailian Chen, A cooperative pursuit-evasion game in wireless sensor and actor networks, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 73, pp. 1267-1276, 2013.
[14] Bo Yang, Yanyan Shen, Mikael Johansson, Cailian Chen and Xinping Guan, Opportunistic multichannel access with decentralized channel state information, Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing, 2013. (SCI)
[15] Zhezhuang Xu, Cailian Chen, Bin Cheng and Xinping Guan, Sharing mobility strategy improves location service in wireless sensor and actor networks, IEEE Communication Letters, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 858-861, May 2012. (SCI)
[16] Shanying Zhu, Cailian Chen and Xinping Guan, Sensor deployment for distributed estimation in heterogeneous wireless sensor networks, Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 297-322, 2012. (SCI)
[17] Rong Du, Cailian Chen, Xiaobin Zhang, Xinping Guan and Bo Cheng, Path planning and obstacle avoidance for PEGs in WSAN: I-ACO based algorithms and implementation, Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 323-345, 2012. (SCI)
[18] Kai Ma, Qiaoni Han, Cailian Chen and Xinping Guan, Bandwidth allocation for cooperative relay networks based on Nash bargaining solution, Int. J. of Communication Systems, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 1044-1058, 2012. (SCI)
[19] Zhezhuang Xu, Cailian Chen, Yi Guo and Xinping Guan, Ballooning: An agent-based search strategy in wireless sensor and actor networks, IEEE Communication Letters, vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 944-946, 2011. (SCI)
[20] Yi Guo, Zhezhuang Xu, Cailian Chen and Xinping Guan, DGR: Dynamic gradient-based routing protocol for unbalanced and persistent data transmission in wireless sensor and actor networks, Journal of Zhejiang University Science C(Computers & Electronics), vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 1-7, 2011. (SCI)
[21] Cailian Chen, H.-X. Liu and X.-P. Guan, “H-inf. filtering of time-delay T-S fuzzy systems based on piecewise Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional”, Signal Processing (Elesevier), vol. 89, no. 10, pp. 1998-2005, 2009. (SCI)
[22] Cailian Chen, Z. Ding and B. Lennox, “Rejection of nonharmonic disturbances in nonlinear systems with semi-global stability,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 55, no. 12, pp.1289-1293, 2008. (SCI)
[23] Xinping Guan, Gang Feng, Cailian Chen and Guanrong Chen, “A full delayed feedback controller design method for time-delay chaotic systems,” Physica D-Nonlinear Phenomena, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 36-42, 2007. (SCI)
[24] Xinping Guan, Bo Yang, Bin Zhao, Cailian Chen, “Adaptive fuzzy sliding mode active queue management algorithms,” Telecommunication Systems, vol. 35, no. 1-2, pp. 21-42, 2007. (SCI)
[25] Xinping Guan, Gang Feng and Cailian Chen, “A stabilization method of unstable fixed points based on full delayed feedback controller design,” Physics Lett. A, vol. 348, pp. 210-221, 2006. (SCI)
[26] Bo Yang, Dongchuan Yu, Gang Feng and Cailian Chen, “Stabilisation of a class of nonlinear continuous time systems by a fuzzy control approach,” IEE Proc. Control Theory and Applications, vol. 153, no. 4, pp. 427-436, 2006. (SCI)
[27] Cailian Chen, Gang Feng and Xinping Guan, Delay-dependent analysis and controller synthesis for discrete-time T-S fuzzy systems with time delays, IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Systems, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 630-643, Oct. 2005. (Regular paper, SCI)
[28] Cailian Chen, Gang Feng, Dong Sun and Xinping Guan, H-inf. Output feedback control of discrete time fuzzy systems with application to chaos control, IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Systems, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 531-543, Aug. 2005. (Regular paper, SCI)
[29] Gang Feng, Cailian Chen, Dong Sun and Yan Zhu, H-inf. controller synthesis of fuzzy dynamic systems based on piecewise Lyapunov functions and bilinear matrix inequalities, IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Systems, vol. 13, no.1, pp. 94-103, Feb. 2005. (Regular paper, SCI)
[30] Xinping Guan, Cailian Chen and Peng Shi, On robust stability for uncertain time-delay systems: a polyhedral Lyapunov-Krasovskii approach, Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 1-18, Feb. 2005. (SCI)
[31] Xinping Guan and Cailian Chen, Delay-dependent guaranteed cost control for T-S fuzzy systems with time delays, IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Systems, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 236-249, Apr. 2004. (Regular paper, SCI)
[32] Cailian Chen, Gang Feng and Xinping Guan, Parameter identification based synchronization for a class of chaotic systems with offset vectors, Physics Letters A, vol. 330, pp. 65-74, Sep. 2004. (SCI)
[33] Cailian Chen, Gang Feng and Xinping Guan, Robust Synchronization of chaotic Lur’e systems via delayed feedback control, Physics Letters A, vol. 321, pp. 344-354, Jan. 2004. (SCI)
[34] Xinping Guan and Cailian Chen, Adaptive fuzzy control for chaotic systems with tracking performance, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, vol. 139, pp. 81-93, Oct. 2003. (SCI)
[35] Xinping Guan, Cailian Chen, Haipeng Peng and Zhengping Fan, Time delay feedback control of time-delay systems, Int. J. of Bifurcation and Chaos, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 193-205, Jan. 2003. (SCI)
[36] Xinping Guan, Yichang Liu and Cailian Chen, Observer-based robust H-inf. control for uncertain time-delay systems, The Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society (ANZIAM Journal)-B: Applied Mathematics, vol. 44, pp. 625-634, July 2003. (SCI)
[37] 关新平，陈彩莲，范正平，基于Backstepping 方法的混沌系统自适应模糊控制，物理学报，vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 753-758, Apr. 2002. (SCI)