- Publications: Over 80 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers in the broader area of control, AI, and applications to advanced automotive systems
- Awards: Best Paper Award at IEEE DDCLS, 2025
- Projects: National Science Foundation China (NSFC) funded project on 'Energy Graph-based Power and Thermal Coordinated Predictive Control of Connected Eletrified Vehicles with Enhanced Performance', 2026-2029; Huawei-funded project on 'Physics-data hybrid modeling of vehicle dynamics', 2022; FAW-funded project on 'intelligent anomaly detection of high sulphur fuel', 2022
Research Experience
- Tenured Associate Professor, School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, August 2016 to October 2018
- Graduate Research Assistant, State Key Lab of Automotive Control and Simulation, 2010-2016
Education
- Ph.D., Jilin University, Control Theory and Control Engineering, 2016, Advisor: Prof. Hong Chen (IEEE Fellow/CAA Fellow)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, August 2016 to October 2018, Advisors: Prof. Ilya Kolmanovsky (IEEE Fellow/IFAC Fellow/NAI Fellow) and Prof. Jing Sun (IEEE Fellow)
- Joint Ph.D. student, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- B.S., Northeast Electric Power University, Electrical Engineering, 2010
Background
Research Interests: Energy Efficiency Optimization of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs), Human Driver Behavior Modeling towards Evaluation of CAV performance under different penetration rate, Human-in-the-Loop of CAV control, Machine Learning and Intelligent Traffic Applications, Embodied AI. Professional Field: Control Theory and Control Engineering.
Miscellany
Plans to recruit 3 Master students and 1 Ph.D. student each year.