Keynote

Professor Jian CHU was born in Zhejiang Province, China, in 1963. He received both B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in industrial process control from Zhejiang University, China, in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and his PhD Degree through a China-Japan (Kyoto University) Joint PhD Program in 1989. From 1989 to 1991, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Zhejiang University. He has been a faculty member at Zhejiang University since 1991 and was promoted to a Full Professor and PhD Advisor in 1993 and 1994 respectively. He was appointed as the Yangzie Scholar Professor in 1999 in its first round competition of its kind. He is now the Vice President of Zhejiang University, Director of the Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology at Zhejiang University, and Deputy Director of National Engineering Research Center for Industrial Automation, China. He is also a Committee member of Control System Design Committee, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control), and holds a leading position in 863 CIMS Program Committee of China.

His research interests include sensor networks, system modeling, advanced process control, optimization and fault diagnosis for a variety of large-scale industrial systems. He has authored or co-authored five books and more than 300 journal papers. He and his research team developed novel robust model predictive control and optimization systems from methodology to industrial applications. During past two decades Professor Chu has made significant contributions to distributed control systems (DCS), advanced process control (APC), modeling and optimization, computer networking and communications. The research team led by Prof Chu developed the first heat-redundancy technology based distributed control system in China in 1993 and the first multi-field-bus based distributed network control systems in 1997. These control system products have been successfully applied in thousands of enterprises across China and beyond. Professor Chu also led a team to constitute the National Standard GB/T 20171-2006 “EPA system architecture and communication specifications for use in industrial control and measurement systems” and EPA international standard accepted and posted by IEC 61158-3-14/-4-14/-5-14/-6-14.

In recognition of his significant contributions in science and technology, Professor Chu has been awarded numerous prestigious prizes and awards. These include the third and second National Prizes for Advance in Science and Technology in 1996 and 2000, respectively. He was awarded the IEE Heaviside Premium in 1998. In 2008 he won the first place of the National Standard Innovation Contribution Prizes. In 2009 he received the second National Technological Invention Prize. His research team also received Innovation Research Group Funding from Natural Science Foundation in 2007, and more than ten ministry level Science and Technology Awards.