题目：Some Recent Research Issues in Automation
报告人：MengChu Zhou，Ph.D. & Distinguished Professor，Fellow of IEEE, IFAC and AAAS, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
时间：2014年11月21日周五下午16：30
地点：智能所CSC 223

摘要：This seminar has three parts. The first part presents the recent research issues in automation, which have been addressed by the Discrete Event Systems Laboratory at New Jersey Institute of Technology. They include Colored Travel Salesmen Problems (CTSP) and collision-free scheduling of multi-machine engineering systems; supervisory control of flexible manufacturing systems subject to resource failures; supervisory control of discrete event systems with non-controllable and non-observable transitions; and traffic signal control policies of intersections facing incidents. The second part deals with how to perform top-quality research. It will cover problem identification, how to research and advance the state-of-the-art, and how to write papers. By learning from many other professionals including students, professors, engineers, managers and business leaders, this part will summarize and tell some important lessons and useful experience. Most of them are based on the actual experience of being a doctoral student, faculty member, listener of many talks, and reader/reviewer/editor of numerous papers, theses, books and proposals. The last part summarizes many common English errors and presentation problems that some faculty and students tend to make. It indicates some critical points regarding how to become a responsible and contributing student, faculty member, professional, and citizen and how to make the scientific and technological contributions to benefit human beings.

报告人简介
MengChu Zhou is currently Distinguished Professor of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His research interests are in Petri nets, Internet of Things, big data, web service, semiconductor manufacturing, transportation and energy systems. He has over 550 publications including 11 books, 260+ journal papers (180+ papers in IEEE Transactions), and 22 book-chapters. Dr. Zhou has led or participated in over 50 research and education projects with total budget over $12M, funded by National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, NIST, New Jersey Science and Technology Commission, and industry. He is the founding Editor-in-Charge of IEEE Book Series on Systems Science and Engineering. He is serving or served Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part A, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is a founding co-chair of IEEE International Conferences on Networking, Sensing and Control. He served General and Program Chairs for many international conferences including IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics and IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering. He was the recipient of many awards including CIM University-LEAD Award by Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Perlis Research Award and Fenster Innovation in Engineering Education Award by NJIT, Humboldt Research Award for US Senior Scientists by Humboldt Foundation, Germany, Franklin V. Taylor Memorial Best Paper Award of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, and Distinguished Service Award from IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. He has been among most highly cited scholars for years and ranked top one in the field of engineering worldwide in 2012 by Web of Science/Thomson Reuters. His Google citation count is over 19600 and h-index is 60. He is a life member of Chinese Association for Science and Technology-USA and served as its President in 1999. He is Fellow of IEEE, IFAC, and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).