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  • Prof. Dr. Yang Tang (唐漾, 教授, 博导)

  • Department of Automation, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China.

  • Office: Room 1505, Building 19, No. 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China(办公地址: 中国上海市梅陇路130号实验19楼1505室)

  • Telephone: 021-64252627

  • Email:yangtang at ecust.edu.cn (‘‘at’’ replaced by ‘‘@’’)

Personal Information

Dr. Yang Tang is now a Professor at Department of Automation, and the Key Laboratory of Smart Manufacturing in Energy Chemical Process, Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China. He was a Research Associate with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, from 2008 to 2010. From 2011 to 2015, he conducted his postdoctoral research with the Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany. He is now a Professor with the East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China. He has published over 100 refereed papers in international journals such as Nature Communications, Patterns (Cell Press), Automatica, IEEE Transactions, SIAM Journals and APS journals (including more than 20 papers in IEEE TAC and Automatica). His current research interests include multi-agent systems/complex networks, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, hybrid dynamical systems, and their applications. Dr. Tang was a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 2011 and he got the National Young Distinguished Professor and National Distinguished Professor of 2015 and 2020, respectively. He is a Senior Board Member of Scientific Reports, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, IEEE Systems Journal and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IFAC Journal) and Science China Information Sciences, etc. He is also a Leading Guest Editor for several special issues in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, CHAOS, the Journal of the Franklin Institute. He is a Guest Editor for topics like industrial metaverse, large language models in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics and Science China Information Sciences. He is a Vice Chair of Technical Committee on Big Data, Vice Chair of Technical Committee on Networked Intelligence, Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), a technical committee of Complex Systems and Complex Networks (CSIAM, China) and a member of Young Working Committee in Chinese Association of Automation. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Fellowships & Honors & Awards

  • IEEE Fellow, 2023 (valid from Jan. 2024)

  • AAIA Fellow, 2023

  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, Best Associate Editor, 2022

  • IEEE ACCESS, Outstanding Associate Editor, 2022

  • Global Top 2% Scientist, Stanford University, 2022

  • Highly Cited Researcher, Essential Science Indicators, Clarivate Analytics, Engineering, 2022 (2022年度高被引学者)

  • IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, Outstanding Associate Editor, 2021

  • Highly Cited Researcher, Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics, 2021 (2021年度高被引学者)

  • Global Top 2% Scientist, Stanford University, 2021

  • Youth Science and Technology Award for PSE, 第二届过程系统工程PSE青年科技奖, 2021

  • Most Cited Chinese Researchers, 2021, Scopus (爱思唯尔2021中国高被引学者)

  • Highly Cited Researcher, Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics, 2020 (2020年度高被引学者)

  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Outstanding Associate Editor, 2020

  • National Distinguished Professor (国家高层次人才计划), 2019

  • Highly Cited Researcher, Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics, 2019 (2019年度高被引学者)

  • President Award of ECUST, 2019

  • Highly Cited Researcher, Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics, 2018 (2018年度高被引学者)

  • Renewed Researcher from Alexander von Humboldt Research Stiftung, Germany, 2018

  • May 4th Medal (Youth Medal) of Shanghai, 2018 (上海市2018年度青年五四奖章)

  • Highly Cited Researcher, Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics, 2017 (2017年度高被引学者)

  • May 4th Medal (Youth Medal), East China University of Science and Technology, 2017 (华东理工大学2017年度青年五四奖章)

  • IEEE Trans. Cybernetics Outstanding Reviewer, IEEE, 2015

  • National Young Distinguished Professor (国家青年高层次人才计划), 2014

  • Top 100 Chinese Most Influential International Academic Papers, 2014

  • Journal of the Franklin Institute, Excellent Reviewer, 2013

  • Shanghai Outstanding Ph.D. thesis, China, 2013

  • Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Germany, 2011 (德国洪堡学者)

Research Interests

  • Aritificial intelligence: robotic systems, computer vision, deep reinforcement learning, big data analysis, deep learning, evolutionary computation, causal inference, industrial intelligence

  • Dynamical systems: distributed estimation, control and optimization, cyber-physical systems, complex networks, hybrid dynamical systems, power grids, early risk warning

Selected Projects:

Principal Investigator:

  1. Subprogram of Major Program of Natural Science Foundation of China (62293502): Cyber-physical coordinated security situation awareness theories and methods in new power systems, (2023-2027, 国家自然科学基金重大项目课题);

  2. Key Program of Natural Science Foundation of China (62233005): Information autonomous transmission, interactive sharing and cooperative observation of nano-satellites under limited resources, (2023-2027, 国家自然科学基金重点项目);

  3. National Key Research and Development Program of China (2021YFB1714300): Intelligent management and control of industrial big data-driven for product quality, (2021-2024, 国家科技部重点研发计划项目);

  4. Flaw detection of printer labels via artificial intelligence, Honeywell Company, (2021-2022).

  5. Program of Shanghai Academic Research Leader (20XD1401300): Estimation, Control and Optimization of Networked Coupled Dynamical Systems, (2020-2023, 上海市优秀学术带头人);

  6. Chinesisch-Deutschen Zentrum für Wissenschaftsförderung (NSFC & DFG), Sino-German Mobility Programme(Sino-German Scientist Cooperation and Exchanges, M-0066): Distributed Control of Non-Holonomic Multi-Agent Systems in Wireless Communication Networks, (2020-2022, 国家自然科学基金中德科学中心合作交流项目);

  7. National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFC0809302): The construction techniques of knowledge graph for hazardous chemicals safety based on the fusion of data from diverse domains, (2018-2020, 国家科技部重点研发计划项目课题);

  8. Renewed research from Alexander von Humboldt Research Stiftung, Germany, 2018: Formation control of multiple rigid bodies with switching topologies, 2018;

  9. Natural Science Foundation of China (61751305): Risk early warning and smart decision making in the petroleum refinery process based on human-computer cooperative co-learning, (2018-2020, 国家自然科学基金人工智能基础研究应急管理项目);

  10. Natural Science Foundation of China (61673176): Coordination and control of hybrid multi-agent networks, (2017-2020, 国家自然科学基金面上项目);

  11. National Young Distinguished Professors (2015-2018, 国家青年高层次人才计划项目);

  12. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, (2011-2013).

Participant:

  1. Integrated modeling theory and technology for plant wide refinery optimization, (2016-2020, Grant No. 61590923), Subprogram of Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China; (国家自然科学基金重大项目课题)

  2. IRTG 1740, Germany (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2013-2015)

  3. Platform Research Programme, Hong Kong, Development of a Smart Process Flow Management Expert System for Agile Manufacturing of Apparel Supply Chain, (2010-2012)

  4. Platform Research Programme, Hong Kong, Development of a Fashion Sales Forecasting Decision Support System for Retailing, (2008-2010)

  5. Development of Textile and Fashion Supply Chain Models for the Leanness and Agility of Sourcing Apparel Products Using Simulation and Optimization Techniques, Natural Science Foundation Project of China of Hong Kong (2008-2009)

Students Achievements:

Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program

  1. Xin Jin, YESS Program by the China Association for Science and Technology, 2022 (中国科协青年人才托举工程), Supervisor: Yang Tang.

Outstanding PhD thesis in Chinese Association of Automation

  1. Jiapeng Xu, 2022, 通信受限随机系统的估计与控制研究 — Estimation and Control of Stochastic Systems under Communication Constraints

Best student paper award:

  1. Shuai Mao: Shuai Mao, Yang Tang, Best student paper award (Student Outstanding Paper Award), A Finite-Time Distributed Optimization Algorithm for Economic Dispatch Problem in Smart Grid, 2nd International Conference on Industrial Artificial Intelligence (IAI 2020) 22-25 October, 2020, Shenyang, China

CSC

  1. Jiali Wang (University of Padova, Italy)

  2. Luolin Xiong (University of Waterloo, Canada)

  3. Tianyu Wu (Waseda University, Japan)

  4. Wenqi Ren (University of Trento, Italy)

  5. Yitian Hong (Universität Bielefeld, Germany)

  6. Jianrui Wang (Politechnico Di Milano, Italy)

  7. Qiyu Sun (Linköping University, Sweden)

  8. Ziwei Dong (Universität Bielefeld, Germany)

  9. Chaoqiang Zhao (University of Bologna, Italy)

  10. Shuai Mao (University of California, Riverside, USA)

  11. Jiahao Huang (Kyoto University, Japan / University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

  12. Jiapeng Xu (University of Notre Dame, USA)

  13. Dandan Zhang (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

  14. Xin Jin (University of Victoria, Canada)

  15. Mengqi Xue (University of California, Riverside, USA)

Zhang Jiangshu fellowship

  1. Luolin Xiong, Zhang Jiangshu fellowship (张江树优博培育资助), 2022

  2. Qiyu Sun, Zhang Jiangshu fellowship (张江树优博培育资助), 2021

  3. Shuai Mao, Zhang Jiangshu Key fellowship (张江树优博重点资助), 2020

  4. Jiapeng Xu, Zhang Jiangshu Key fellowship (张江树优博重点资助), 2019

  5. Dandan Zhang, Zhang Jiangshu fellowship (张江树优博培育资助), 2019

国家奖学金

  1. Qiyu Sun, 国家奖学金,2023

  2. Chaoqiang Zhao, 国家奖学金,2022

  3. Shuai Mao, 国家奖学金,2020

  4. Qiyu Sun, 国家奖学金,2020

  5. Jiapeng Xu, 国家奖学金,2019

竞赛奖

  1. 蒋雨哲、康海星、陈英芝、张程昕、田栩飞、程友鹏、黄润鑫、沈天辰,言图科技 — 基于深度学习的图像操控及交互技术先行者,第七届中国国际“互联网+”大学生创新创业大赛获奖,国家铜奖

  2. 蒋雨哲,康海星,陈英芝,张程昕,田栩飞,程友鹏,黄润鑫,沈天辰,言图科技 — 基于深度学习的图像操控及交互技术先行者,第七届中国国际“互联网+”大学生创新创业大赛获奖,上海市金奖

  3. 李潇霖、王婧旸、陈中庆,中国高校计算机大赛-2020移动应用创新赛一等奖

  4. 张倩瑜、朱哲灏、徐先哲, 中国高校计算机大赛-2020移动应用创新赛一等奖

  5. Qiyu Sun, Jinbao Fang, Jingchao Peng, First prize in China postgraduate mathematical modeling contest (全国研究生数学建模竞赛一等奖), 2019

  6. Haojie Huang, Tinghui Luo, Shuai Mao, First prize in China postgraduate mathematical modeling contest (全国研究生数学建模竞赛一等奖), 2018

  7. Siqing Chen, Jinbao Fang, Yanwen Meng, Yuan Xu, 2nd prize for the 2nd National Gaofen Intelligent perception competition for unmanned aerial vehicles, 2018

  8. Xuepeng Zong, Chaoqiang Zhao, Rujian Gan, Xue Zheng, 3rd prize for the 2nd National Gaofen Intelligent perception competition for unmanned aerial vehicles, 2018

  9. Siqing Chen, Jinbao Fang, Yanwen Meng, Yuan Xu, 1st place in Preliminary Round for the 2nd National Gaofen Intelligent perception competition for unmanned aerial vehicles, 2018

本科优毕

  1. More than 15 students got the outstanding bachelor thesis

毕业去向

  1. 高校院所:美国卡内基梅隆大学、加拿大温莎大学、中国海洋大学、中航上海无线电电子研究所

  2. IT公司:微软、高通、ARM、胡桃街、音墙、美光

  3. AI公司:商汤、科大讯飞

  4. 汽车公司:地平线、集度汽车、联创汽车

  5. 金融公司:招商银行、天天基金

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