I received my B.S. (Honors) in Electronics (5/88) from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and M.S. (12/89) and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering (5/93) from the University of Texas at Arlington.
My research career started in the summer of 1987 when I worked on the problem of population control, which is still a very urgent problem in China. My supervisor and I derived a frequency domain model and came up with a critical stability criterion for population systems. The model can also be used for population forecast. The results were published as two conference papers in the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
My masters thesis was concerned with the robust control of robotic manipulators
using sliding mode control. One of the research results was published in
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
My Ph. D. research concentrated on both theory (sliding mode and adaptive control) and applications (robots, motors, and accelerator systems). From April 1991 to February 1994 (during and after my Ph. D. studies), I worked at SSC (Superconducting Super Collider Lab), where I was heavily involved in the modeling, simulation, and design of modern digital controllers and signal processing algorithms for the beam control system. I received an invention award for my work at SSC. The research results of my colleagues and I were published as 3 journal papers and 4 conference papers in leading accelerator physics journals and conference proceedings.
After the demise of SSC, I joined Automation and Robotics Research Institute
in Fort Worth for seventeen months. Prof. Frank Lewis and I applied adaptive
and neural network techniques to the control of power systems, robots,
and motors. At the same time, I also published a few technical papers on
sliding mode control using output feedback.
Since joining IAI in July 1995, I have been manager/Principal Investigator
of more than 50 projects funded by Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Stanford Telecom, DARPA,NSF, Navy, Air Force, Army, BMDO, and NASA totaling 16 million US dollars.
Some of these projects are: modeling and control of advanced machine tools,
digital control of high precision electron microscope, enhancement of microscope
images, adaptive antenna arrays, automatic target recognition of FLIR and
SAR images, fast flow control in communication networks, vibration management
of gun pointing system, health monitoring of flight critical systems, high
speed piezoelectric actuator control, fault tolerant missile control, image
processing of infrared images, active speech enhancement, image and video
compression, and underwater vehicle control.
I am a senior member of IEEE (robotics and automation, communications, and controls societies) since 1998 and Tau Beta Pi, and listed in the Millennium edition of the Who's Who in Science and Engineering. The past 17 years of research results with my numerous collaborators have been published in the form of 33 journal papers and more than 80 additional refereed papers in various major conference proceedings.
My wife, Jessica, and I have two children: Jacqueline and Martin. During our leisure time, we like to watch movies and play table tennis. The game of table tennis is really fun and independent of weather conditions. I took regular coaching lessons with Cheng Yinghua who was in the Chinese national team from 1979-1989.
For more information about my work, please visit www.i-a-i.com.