Fellow of IEEE, SAEng, IFAC and CAA

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Brief Introduction: Lihua Xie received his PhD degree from the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is currently President’s Chair in Control Engineering with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the Director, National Research Foundation Centre for Advanced Robotics Technology Innovation (CARTIN) and Joint NTU-VinUni Centre for Robotics and Embodied Intelligence.  He has served as Head of Control and Instrumentation Division and Director of Delta-NTU Corporate Laboratory for Cyber-Physical Systems. He has directed several major research programmes with a total funding of over S$100M.  His research areas include robust control, multi-agent systems, learning-based control, and unmanned systems. He has authored and co-authored hundreds of research articles, 11 monographs and over 30 granted/filed patents. He has been listed as a highly cited researcher and has received numerous awards for his research including Best Paper Awards from IROS, ICRA, Asia Control Conference, and TCCT Outstanding Contribution Award. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Unmanned Systems and Editor of IET Book Series on Control and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Control System Magazine, etc. He was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, the General Chair of the 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and a Vice-President of IEEE Control System Society. Professor Xie is Fellow of Academy of Engineering Singapore, Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of IFAC, and Fellow of CAA.