Tianyou CHAI
CAE Member
Director of the Academic Committee of Northeastern University
An expert in control theory and control engineering, IEEE Fellow, and IFAC Fellow. Formerly served as a member of the Technical Bureau of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and as the Chairman of the IFAC Manufacturing and Instrumentation Technology Coordination Committee (1996-1999), and as the Director of the Information Science Department of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2010-2018). Currently serves as the Director of the Academic Committee of Northeastern University (since 2011) and as the Editor-in-Chief of the "Acta Automatica Sinica".
He has long been engaged in basic research and engineering technology research on complex industrial process control, optimization, and integrated automation. He has proposed a multivariable adaptive decoupling control theory and method, which is combined with intelligent control and computer distributed control technology. He has led the development of intelligent decoupling control technology and systems. He has also proposed a full-process intelligent optimization control theory and technology aimed at optimizing comprehensive production indicators. He has led the development of a full-process intelligent optimization control system and an integrated automation system, which have been successfully applied in process industries and achieved significant social and economic benefits.
He has published over 130 papers in the IFAC Journal and IEEE Transactions, including one paper that won the Best Paper Award of the Control Engineering Practice, a top-tier international control technology journal, from 2011 to 2013. He has mentored over 90 doctoral students and more than 240 master's students. He has been invited to give over 30 keynote speeches at IFAC and IEEE international conferences held in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, and other countries. As the first author, he has won four second prizes of the National Technological Invention Award and the National Science and Technology Progress Award, as well as twelve provincial and ministerial-level special and first prizes. He has twice received the National May 1st Labor Medal, won the Science and Technology Progress Award from the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation in 2002, the Liaoning Provincial Science and Technology Meritorious Award in 2003, the honorary title of National Exemplary Individual in 2005, and the first prize of the First Yang Jia-Chi Science and Technology Award in 2010. In 2007, he was awarded the Outstanding Industrial Achievement Award in Control Research at the IEEE Joint Conference on Systems and Control, and in 2017, he received the Wook Hyun Kwon Education Award from the Asian Control Association.