
Prof. HO Wing Cheong Daniel (何永昌)
PhD – University of Salford, UK, FIEEE
- Associate Dean, College of Science
- Chair Professor, Department of Mathematics
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Biography
Prof. Daniel W. C. Ho received a first class honour in BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in mathematics from the University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK in 1980, 1982 and 1986 respectively. From 1985 to 1988, he was a Research Fellow in Industrial Control Unit, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. In 1989, he joined City University of Hong Kong (formerly known as City Polytechnic of Hong Kong). He is currently a Chair Professor of Applied Mathematics and the Associate Dean (Education) of College of Science.
Prof. Ho is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is also a Chang Jiang Chair Professor, awarded by the Ministry of Education, China in 2012. He is named as Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering by Clarivate Analytics (Thomson Reuters) 2014-21 for eight consecutive years. He is recipient of Top 2% most highly cited scientists in 2020,2021.
Prof. Ho is a Subject editor of Journal of Franklin Institute, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Neural Networks, Asian Journal of Control, Cogent Engineering, IET Control Theory & Applications and Systems Science and Control Engineering.
Research Interests/Areas
- Control Theory
- Estimation and filtering theory
- Complex dynamical distributed networks
- Multi-agent networks
- Nonlinear singular systems
- Stochastic systems
Prizes/Honours
- Recipient of "The Best Paper Award" from The 8th Asian Control Conference (ASCC 2011), May 2011
- Paper Title: "Two-targets tracking problems in sensor networks with partial information transmission"
- Guest Professor of East China University of Science and Technology (2011-2014), Shanghai, China
- Chang Jiang Chair Professor, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China. (2012-2015)
- awarded by the Ministry of Education, China (教育部, 长江讲座教授)
- Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering (2014 - 2021) published by Clarivate Analytics (Thomson Reuters)
- (For more information, click Highly Cited Researchers)
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE) (Jan. 2017) for recognizing his contributions to stability and control for stochastic systems.
- Teaching Excellence Award (2020) (More information)
- Recipient of Top 2% of the World's most highly cited scientists (2020, 2021).
Activities
Organising a conference / an event
2000 |
The 19th Chinese Control Conference |
Proceedings Editor |
2001 |
International Workshop on Control, Optimization, Signal Processing and Computer Communications |
Organiser |
2008 |
The World Congress on Computational Intelligence, IEEE |
Registration Chair |
2009 |
The Asian Control Conference |
Local Arrangement Chair |
2013 |
Asian Control Conference |
Awards Chair |
2014 |
Chinese Control Conference (CCC 2014) |
Regional Chair |
2015 |
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC 2015) |
Registration Chair |
2018 |
International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS2018) |
General Co-Chairs |
2019 |
IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications CCTA2019 |
Finance Chair |
2019 |
SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications(CT19) |
Organizing Committee |
Program Committee members for Major Conferences
2006- | Control and Decision Conference (IEEE CDC) | Associate Editor |
2006- | America Control Conference (IEEE ACC) | Associate Editor |
2011- | Chinese Control Conference (CCC) | Associate Editor |
2011- | Chinese Control Decision Conference (CCDC) | Associate Editor |