TOPIC : Introduction to Research Conducted in Information School of Tsinghua University
SPEAKER : Dr Fuchun Sun

Department of Computer Science and Technology,

Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China
DATE : 20 January 2009 (Tuesday)
TIME : 2.30 pm to 3.30 pm
VENUE : E1-06-04, Engineering Block E1, NUS
 ABSTRACT  
In this talk, a brief introduction to the Information School and National Lab of Information Sci. & Tech. of Tsinghua University will be given. Later, we will introduce some achievements carried out in my research group, which include modelling, control and teleoperation for space vehicles, mobile robot and navigation, neuro-fuzzy adaptive and robust control, and latest research on fuzzy singularly perturbed model (FSPM), its universal approximation, controller synthesis for multiple scale nonlinear systems.
 BIOGRAPHY  
Dr. Fuchun Sun received Ph.D degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1998. He worked over four years for the Department of Automatic Control at Naval Aeronautical Engineering Academy. From 1998 to 2000 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Now he is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His research interests include intelligent control, networked control system and management, neural networks, fuzzy systems, nonlinear systems and robotics. He has authored or coauthored two books and over 100 papers which have appeared in various journals and conference proceedings.

 

Dr. Sun is the recipient of the excellent Doctoral Dissertation Prize of China in 2000 and the Choon-Gang Academic Award by Kerea in 2003, and was recognized as a Distinguished Young Scholar in 2006 by the Natural Science Foundation of China. He has been a member of the Technical Committee on Intelligent Control of the IEEE Control System Society since 2006. He serves as an associated editor of IEEE Trans.on Neural Networks and a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Soft Computing－A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications.