Tianyou Chai, Northeastern University, China
Prof. Tianyou Chai received the PhD degree from Northeastern University, P.R. China in 1985. Since 1985, he has been with Northeastern University where he became full professor in 1988. He is Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering. He has been director of National Research Center for Metallurgical Automation Technology since 1997. He served as Member of Technical Board of IFAC and Chairman of Coordinating Committee on Manufacturing and Instrumentation of IFAC from 1996 to 1999. He currently serves as Deputy Director of Experts Committee of Advanced Manufacturing and Automation in High-Tech Research and Development Program of China.
His research interests include adaptive control, intelligent decoupling control, and integrated automation systems. He has published more than two hundred papers in international journals and international conferences. He developed several integrated automation systems, which have been successfully applied in the process industries in China, such as metallurgy industry and electric power industry.
He was the recipient of two prizes of National Science and Technology Progress Award in 1999 and again in 2001, He was awarded the title of Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Technological Science Prize in 2002 and Science and Technology Honor Prize of Liaoning Province in 2003.