Professor Huang, Jie

Biography

Jie Huang studied Power Engineering at Fuzhou University from 1977 to 1979 and Circuits and Systems at Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST) from 1979 to 1982. He got his Master's degree from NUST in 1982 and was a faculty member there from 1982 to 1986. He completed his Ph.D. study in automatic control at the Johns Hopkins University in 1990 and subsequently held a post-doctoral fellow position there until July 1991. From August 1991 to July 1995, he worked In industry in USA. In September 1995, he joined the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is now a professor and chairman of Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, CUHK. He has been advisory/guest professors at several universities. He also holds a professorship with Nanjing University of Science and Technology under the Thousand Talents Program, Class B (short term). He served as a Science Advisor to the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and Honorary Advisor to Hong Kong Science Museum.  Jie Huang is an Editor-at-Large of Communications in Information and Systems, Editor-at-Large of International Journal of Control Theory and Applications, Member of the Advisory Board of Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, and Subject Editor of International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, and Associate Editor of Science in China, Ser. F: Information Sciences and ACTA Automatica Sinica. He served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control from 2002 to 2004, and an Associate Editor of the Asian Journal of Control from 1999 to 2001. He has been Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, and Asian Journal of Control. He was Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Control Systems Society from 2005 to 2008, and member of the Board of Governors of IEEE Control Systems Society from 2006 to 2007. He served in organizing committee or operating committee of several major international Conferences including the General Chair of 2002 International Conference on Control and Automation, Publicity Chair of 2003 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Program Co-Chair of 2005 Chinese Control Conference, General Co-chair of 2007 International Conference on Control and Automation, Vice Program Chair of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and Program Chair of 2010 World Congress of Intelligent Control and Automation, and General Co-chair of The 12th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, December 2012.  

Research Interest

Control theory and applications, robotics and automation, scientific computation, systems biology, and guidance and control of flight vehicles.