Jie Huang [People in Control]

In this issue of IEEE Control Systems Magazine, we speak with Jie Huang, who is a professor and the chair of the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He 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 received a 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 then held a postdoctoral fellow position there until July 1991. From August 1991 to July 1995, he worked in industry in the United States. In September 1995, he joined the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has authored two books and approximately 300 journal and conference papers and is a Fellow of IEEE and the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). His research interests are in nonlinear control systems and cooperative control of multiagent systems.