Prof. CHEN Jie (陳杰)

Jie Chen teaches in the field of systems and control, and signal processing. He was born in Yichun, Jiangxi Province, The People's Republic of China on January 14, 1963. He received the B.S. degree in aerospace engineering from Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian, China in 1982, the M.S.E. degree in electrical engineering, the M.A. degree in mathematics, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering, all from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1985, 1987, and 1990, respectively.

Dr. Chen currently holds the appointment of Chair Professor of Electronic Engineering at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Prior to joining City University, he was with School of Aerospace Engineering and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia from 1990 to 1993. He joined University of California, Riverside, California as an Assistant Professor in 1994, where he became an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1997, and a Professor in 1999. He served as the Professor and Chair of Electrical Engineering from 2001 to 2006. He has also held guest positions and visiting appointments with Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Harbin Institute of Technology-Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China; Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, The University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia. His main research interests are in the areas of linear multivariable systems theory, networked control, system identification, robust control, optimization and complexity theory, and broad applications of control theory and techniques. He is the author of two books, respectively, (with G. Gu) Control-Oriented System Identification: An H-infinity Approach (Wiley-Interscience, 2000), and (with K. Gu and V.L. Kharitonov) Stability of Time-Delay Systems (Birkhauser, 2003).

An elected Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of AAAS, Fellow of IFAC, and a Yangtze Scholar/Chair Professor of China, Dr. Chen was a recipient of 1996 US National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2004 SICE International Award, and 2006 Natural Science Foundation of China Outstanding Overseas Young Scholar Award. He was on a number of journal editorial boards, serving as an Associate Editor and a Guest Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, a Guest Editor for IEEE Control Systems Magazine, an Associate Editor for Automatica, Journal of Control Theory and Applications, and the founding Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Control Science and Engineering. He is currently an Associate Editor for Automatica.

For a more detailed narrative of his research and his general view on systems and control, see his interview with IEEE Control Systems Magazine in People in Control.

Education

• B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, 1982, Northwestern Polytechnic University
• M.S.E. in Electrical Engineering, 1985, University of Michigan
• M.A. in Mathematics, 1987, University of Michigan
• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1990, University of Michigan

• Networked control and information theory
• Linear multivariable systems theory
• System identification
• Robust control
• Optimization and complexity theory
• Signal processing and control applications

• Fellow of IEEE
• Fellow of AAAS
• Fellow of IFAC
• Yangtze Scholar and Chair Professor, Chinese Ministry of Education, 2008.
• Recognized by Wikipedia to be among active researchers who have made significant contributions in system analysis and control theory.
• Outstanding Overseas Young Scholar Award, Natural Science of Foundation of China, 2006
• SICE International Award, SICE Annual Meeting, 2004
• National Science Foundation Career Award, 1996
• University of California Regents Fellowship, University of California, 1995
• Best Paper Presentation, American Control Conference, San Francisco, CA, June 1993.
• Advisory Professor, University of Science and Technology of Southern China, Guangzhou, P.R. China, since 2007.
• Adjunct Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology-Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, P.R. China, since April 2004.
• Guest Professor, Dalian Institute of Technology, Dalian, P.R. China, since August 2001.
• Guest Professor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China, since November 1997.
• Guest Professor, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian, P.R. China, since May, 1994.
• Nominee for the George Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1996.
• Nominee for the George Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2004.
• Nominee for the George Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2005.

• Associate Editor, Automatica, June 2011--present.
• Founding Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Control Science and Engineering, February 2006--February 2010.
• Associate Editor, Contemporary Engineering Sciences, since October, 2007.
• Guest Editor, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, August 2005-June 2007.
• Associate Editor, Automatica, March 2004--September 2006.
• Associate Editor, Journal of Control Theory and Applications, March 2004--June 2006.
• Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, August 2001--August 2003.
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, January 1997--December 2000.

Conference Committees

• Member, Program Committee, 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando, Florida, December 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 8th International Conference on Control and Automation, Xiamen, China, June 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, 8th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Jinan, China, July 2010.
• Member, Committee for Best Student Paper Award, 48th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, December 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, P.R. China, December 2009.
• Member, International Program Committee, 7th International Conference on Control and Automation, Christchurch, New Zealand, December 2009.
• Regional Chair, 7th Asian Control Conference, Hong Kong, P.R. China, August 2009.
• Member, Organizing Committee, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, Shenyang, P.R. China, August 2009.
• Member, International Program Committee, 15th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, Saint Malo, France, July 2009.
• Member, International Program Committee, 10th IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, May 2008
• Member, International Program Committee, 15th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, Saint Malo, France, July 2009.
• Organizer and Speaker, Workshop on Fundamental Performance Limitation in Feedback Control, Chinese Control Conference, Harbin, P.R. China, Aug. 2006.
• Organizer, Workshop on New Developments in Control Performance Limitation Research: A Tale in the Network Age, IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Seville, Spain, Dec. 2005.
• Member, International Program Committee, 14th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, Newcastle, Australia, March 2006.
• Member, International Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications, Cancun Mexico, May 2005.
• Member, International Program Committee, 5th International Conference on Control and Automation, Budapest, Hungary, May 2005.
• Member, Program Committee, 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas, December 2004.
• Member, International Program Committee, 2004 SICE Annual Meeting, Sapporo, Japan, August 2004.
• Member, Program Committee, 2004 Chinese Control Conference, Wuxi, P.R. China, July 2004.
• Member, Program Committee, 2004 American Control Conference, Boston, MA, June 2004.
• Member, International Program Committee, 5th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Hangzhou, P.R. China, June 2004.
• Member, Best Student Paper Committee, 2003 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, HI, December 2003.
• Member, International Program Committee, 13th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, August 2003.
• Member, Program Committee, 2003 Chinese Control Conference, Yichang, P.R. China, July 2003.
• Member, International Program Committee, 4th International Conference on Control and Automation, Montreal, Canada, June 2003.
• Member, Program Committee, 2002 Chinese Control Conference, Hangzhou, P.R. China, August 2002.
• Member, Program Committee, 2002 International Conference on Control and Automation, Xiamen, P. R. China, June 2002.
• Organizer, Workshop on Time-Delay Systems: Stability, Robustness, and Applications, IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Orlando, FL, Dec. 2001.
• Member, Program Committee, 2001 Chinese Control Conference, Dalian, P.R. China, August 2001.
• Member, International Program Committee, 3rd IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems, Santa Fe, NM, July 2001.
• Member, International Program Committee, 3rd International Conf. Control Theory and Applications, Pretoria, South Africa, December 2001.
• Member, Program Committee, 2000 Chinese Control Conference, Hong Kong, P.R. China, December 2000.
• Member, National Science Foundation Review Panel, Washington, D.C., May, 1999.
• Member, International Program Committee, 12th IFAC Symposium on System Identification and Parameter Estimation, Santa Barbara, CA, July 2000.
• Member, International Program Committee, IFAC Workshop on Linear Time Delay Systems, Grenoble, France, July 1998.
• Member, Program Committee, 36th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, December 1997.
• Member, Program Committee, 6th IEEE Conf. on Control Applications, Hartford, CT, October 1997.
• Member, International Program Committee, 11th IFAC Symposium on System Identification and Parameter Estimation, Fukuoka, Japan, July 1997.
• Member, Program Committee, 10th Chinese Youth Conf. on Automation, Xian, P.R. China, August, 1994.
• Member, International Program Committee, 10th IFAC Symposium on System Identification and Parameter Estimation, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 1994.

Visiting Appointments

• Visiting Fellow, School of Quantitative Methods and Mathematical Sciences, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia, May-June, 2004.
• Visiting Fellow, Deparment of Mechanical and Environmental Informatics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, July 2000.
• Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, P.R. China, January-July 2000.

Panel Activities/Memberships

• Panelist, National Science Foundation Review Panel, Washington, D.C., October, 2005.
• Panelist, National Science Foundation Review Panel, Washington, D.C., June, 2005.
• Panelist, National Science Foundation Review Panel, Washington, D.C., March, 2002.
• Panelist, National Science Foundation Review Panel, Washington, D.C., April, 2001.
• Panelist, 1997 Chinese Control Conference, Lushan, P.R. China, August 1997.
• Member, Red Ribbon Panel for Best Student Paper Award, 46th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, December 2007.
• Member, Red Ribbon Panel for Best Student Paper Award, 44th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Seville, Spain, December 2005.
• Member, Red Ribbon Panel for Best Student Paper Award, 34th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, December 1995.
• Member, Red Ribbon Panel for Best Student Paper Award, 33rd IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Orlando, FL, December 1994.
• Member, IFAC Technical Committee on Modeling, Identification and Signal Processing, since 1994.
• Member, IFAC Technical Committee on Linear Control Systems, since 2002.

Invited Speeches

1. Keynote Speech, Natural Science Foundation of China, August 2005.
2. Plenary Speech, 2003 Chinese Control Conference, Yichang, P.R. China, August, 2003.
3. Plenary Speech, 10th Chinese Youth Conf. on Automation, Xian, P.R. China, August, 1994.
4. Tutorial Speech, 2003 SICE Annual Meeting, Fukui, Japan, August 2003.
5. Invited Speech, National Science Foundation Workshop on Control, Optimization, and Functional Analysis: Synergies and Perspectives, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, October 2010.
6. Invited Speech, International Workshop on Networked Control Systems, Shenzhen, P.R. China, December 2009.
7. Invited speech, International Workshop on Uncertain Dynamical Systems, Awaji Island, Japan, July 2008.
8. Invited Speech, International Workshop on Uncertain Systems, Cacais, Portugal, July 2002.
9. Invited Speech, Symposium on Cybernetics in the 21st Century: Information and Complexity in Control Theory, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, November 2001.
10. Invited Speech, International Workshop on Control of Uncertain Systems, Emerging Directions, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, June 1999.
11. Invited Speech, International Workshop on Robustness in Identification and Control}, Universita degli Studi di Siena, Siena, Italy, July 1998.
12. Invited Speech, Symposium on robust identification and robust control, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Dec. 1996.
13. Short course, Department of Control Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China, Sept. 2009.
14. Short course, Institute of Industrial Process Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China, July 2009.
15. Short course, College of Marine Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, P.R. China, Sept. 1996.
16. Seminar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China, November 2010.
17. Seminar, Institute of Industrial Process Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China, July 2010.
18. Seminar, Polytechnic University, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China, May 2010.
19. Seminar, Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China, May 2009.
20. Seminar, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of California, San Diego, CA, May 2009.
21. Seminar, College of Automation, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, P.R. China, December 2008.
22. Seminar, School of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, P.R. China, December 2008.
23. Seminar, Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China, December 2008.
24. Seminar, College of Automation Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, P.R. China, August 2008.
25. Seminar, Institute of Industrial Process Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China, June 2008.
26. Seminar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, April 2008.
27. Seminar, School of Engineering, University of California, Merced, CA, March 2008.
28. Seminar, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, March 2008.
29. Seminar, College of Automation, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, P.R. China, July 2007.
30. Seminar, School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, P.R. China, July 2007.
31. Seminar, Department of Control Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China, June 2007.
32. Seminar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, April 2007.
33. Seminar, College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang Industrial University, Hangzhou, P.R. China, December 2005.
34. Seminar, College of Aerospace Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, P.R. China, August 2004.
35. Seminar, School of Quantitative Methods and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia, June 2004.
36. Seminar, Center for Control Engineering and Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, May 2004.
37. Seminar, Harbin Institute of Technology-Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, P. R. China, April 2004.
38. Seminar, Deparment of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA, November 2003.
39. Seminar, City University of Hong Kong, Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, P.R. China, February 2003.
40. Seminar, Institute of Mathematics and Systems Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China, August 2002.
41. Seminar, Deparment of Engineering, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, July 2002.
42. Seminar, HEUDIASYC, Centre de Recherche de Royallieu, Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, Compiegne, France, December 2001.
43. Seminar, Deparment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, P.R. China, November 2001.
44. Invited speech, Symposium on Cybernetics in the 21st Century: Information and Complexity in Control Theory, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, November 2001.
45. Seminar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia, August 2000.
46. Seminar, Department of Mathematics, The University of West Sydney, Penrith, Australia, August 2000.
47. Seminar, Deparment of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, July 2000.
48. Seminar, Deparment of Mechanical and Environmental Informatics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, July 2000.
49. Seminar, Deparment of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China, April 2000.
50. Seminar, Institute of Industrial Process Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China, April 2000.
51. Seminar, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian, P.R. China, December 1999.
52. Seminar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, November 1999.
53. Seminar, Department of Automatic Control Engineering, Southeastern University, Nanjing, P.R. China, July 1999.
54. Seminar, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, P.R. China, July 1999.
55. Seminar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, May 1999.
56. Seminar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, San Diego, CA, April 1999.
57. Seminar, Center for Control Engineering and Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, February 1999.
58. Seminar, United Technology Research Center, East Hartford, CT, Nov. 1998.
59. Seminar, CENS-CNR, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, July 1998.
60. Seminar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, February 1998.
61. Seminar, Institute of Industrial Process Control, Zhejiang University, Xian, P.R. China, August 1997.
62. Seminar, Department of Marine Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian, P.R. China, July 1997.
63. Seminar, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, July 1997.
64. Seminar, Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan, Dec. 1996.
65. Seminar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, October 1996.
66. Seminar, Center for Control Engineering and Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, April 1996.
67. Seminar, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA, February 1996.
68. Plenary speech, 10th Chinese Youth Conf. on Automation, Xian, P.R. China, August, 1994.
69. Seminar, Department of Electrical Engineering, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL, July 1993.
70. Seminar, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, March 1993.
71. Seminar, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, March 1993.
72. Seminar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, July 1991.
73. Seminar, Dutch Graduate School of Systems and Control, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Feburary 1991.
74. Seminar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, Feburary 1991.
75. Seminar, School of Aerospace Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, March 1990.