1. Model Predictive Control;
2. Control and Optimization of Large Scale Systems;
3. Distributed Cooperative Control

Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing) degree, received in April 1984
1979 – 1984 Institute of Control Technology, Technical University Munich, Germany
1978 – 1979 Dept. of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
1963 – 1968 Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Since 1984 – Now Dept. of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Ass.Prof. (1985), Prof. (1988), Doctor Supervisor (1990)
1970 – 1978 Electronic Equipment Factory

Host of more than 20 research projects from the NSFC, High Tech Plan (863), Ministry
of Education etc. Currently the host of the NSFC Key Project “ Theory and Efficient
Algorithms of Model Predictive Control” (2010 – 2013)

Received the Awards for the Achievements in Science and Technology by the Chinese
Ministry of Education and Shanghai Government eight times, and won the honorary
titles of National Distinguished Teacher; National Distinguished Scientific Researcher, etc

Two lectures for master and doctoral students: 1. Predictive Control; 2. Methods of
Large Scale Dynamic Systems.
Part of the lecture for undergraduate students: Principles of Automatic Control

Published more than 300 journal papers, mainly in the areas of model predictive control,
Large scale and complex systems and intelligent robotic systems. Author or co-author
of three books, and editor or co-editor of three conference proceedings.