Jie Chen's Biosketch
Jie Chen teaches at The
University of California, Riverside, California
in the field of systems and control, and
signal processing. He was born in Yichun, Jiangxi Province,
The People's Republic of China on January 14, 1963. He
received the B.S. degree in aerospace engineering from
Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian, China in 1982,
the M.S.E. degree in electrical engineering, the M.A.
degree in mathematics, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical
engineering, all from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Michigan, in 1985, 1987, and 1990, respectively.
From 1990 to 1993, he was with School of Aerospace Engineering and
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute
of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. He joined University of California,
Riverside, California as an Assistant Professor in 1994, where he
became an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical
Engineering in 1997, and a Professor in 1999. He served as the
Professor and Chair of Electrical Engineering from 2001 to 2006. He
has also held guest positions and visiting appointments with
Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian, Zhejiang University,
Hangzhou, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Harbin Institute
of Technology-Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, University of
Science and Technology of Southern China, Guangzhou, Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China; Tokyo
Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and The University of
Newcastle, Callaghan, The University of Western Sydney, Penrith,
Australia. His main research interests are in the areas of linear
multivariable systems theory, system identification, robust control,
optimization, and networked control. He is the author of two books,
respectively, (with G. Gu) Control-Oriented
System Identification: An H-infinity Approach (Wiley-Interscience,
2000), and (with K. Gu and V.L. Kharitonov) Stability of Time-Delay
Systems (Birkhauser, 2003).
An elected Fellow of IEEE and a Yangtze Scholar/Chair Professor of China, Dr. Chen
was a recipient of 1996 US National Science Foundation CAREER Award,
2004 SICE International Award, and 2006 Natural Science Foundation
of China Outstanding Overseas Young Scholar Award. He was a past
Associate Editor and a past Guest Editor for the IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control, a past Guest Editor for
IEEE Control Systems Magazine, and a past Associate Editor for
Automatica and Journal of Control Theory and Applications. He
currently serves as the founding Editor-in-Chief for Journal of
Control Science and Engineering, and an Associate Editor for
Contemporary Engineering Sciences.