Journal Editorship and Other Activities


* Editorship in Journals and Conferences

                      1.   Editor, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2022–

                      2.   Associate Editor, Guidance, Navigation and Control, 2021–

                      3.   Associate Editor, Autonomous Intelligent Systems, 2020–

                      4.   Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Control Theory and Technology, 2013–

                      5.   Editor-in-Chief, Unmanned Systems, 2013–

                      6.   Associate Editor, Science China Information Sciences, 2015–2023

                      7.   Editorial Board Member, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, 2014–2019

                      8.   Associate Editor, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2014–2016

                      9.   Advisory Board Member, International Journal of Automation and Logistics, 2014

                   10.   Associate Editor, Frontiers of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2010–2012

                   11.   Editor-at-Large, Journal of Control Theory and Applications, 2008–2013

                   12.   Member of Advisory Board, Kuwait Journal of Science & Engineering, 2003–2013

                   13.   Associate Editor, Chinese Control Conference Editorial Board, 2008–2012

                   14.   Associate Editor, Systems & Control Letters, 2004–2010

                   15.   Associate Editor, The Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, 2007–2010

                   16.   Associate Editor, Journal of Control Science and Engineering, 2006–2009

                   17.   Associate Editor, Automatica, 2005–2008

                   18.   Associate Editor, Control and Intelligent Systems, 2002–2007

                   19.   Associate Editor, Asian Journal of Control, 2002

                   20.   Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1999–2001

                   21.   Associate Editor, Conference Editorial Board, IEEE Control Systems Society, 1997–1998

* Activities in Professional Societies

                      1.   Member of the Engineering Panel, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, China, 2023–

                      2.   Vice President, Technical Committee on Control Theory, Chinese Association of Automation, China, 2023–

                      3.   Member, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Fellow Evaluating Committee, 2018–2019

                      4.   Member, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Fellow Evaluating Committee, 2015

                      5.   Member, IEEE Systems Council Fellow Evaluating Committee, 2010

                      6.   Member of Technical Committee on Control Theory, Chinese Association of Automation, China, 2008–2022

                      7.   Deputy Chairman, IEEE Control Systems Chapter Committee, Singapore, 2006–2007; 2014–2015

                      8.   Regional Chair, Chinese Control Conference, China, 2005–2007

                      9.   Chairman, IEEE Control Systems Chapter, Singapore, 2002–2003

                   10.   Treasurer, IEEE Control Systems Chapter, Singapore, 2000–2001

                   11.   Member, IEEE Control Systems Chapter Committee, Singapore, 1998–1999; 2004–2005; 2010–2013

                   12.   Honorary Secretary, IEEE Control Chapter, Singapore, 1994–1997; 2008–2009

* Keynote and Plenary Speakers

                      1.   Keynote speaker, 2025 World AI Conference – Frontiers and Applications of Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems Forum, Shanghai, July 2025

                      2.   Keynote speaker, 2025 Artificial Intelligence Innovation Forum, Fuzhou, June 2025

                      3.   Keynote speaker, 2nd Technical Workshop on Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Guangzhou, China, May 2025

                      4.   Keynote speaker, 4th Workshop on Challenging Issues and Progress in Control Theory, Qingdao, China, April 2025

                      5.   Keynote speaker, 1st AI4X International Academic-Industry Conference, Wuxi, China, April 2025

                      6.   Keynote speaker, 2024 Low-Altitude Economy Industry–Education Integration Forum & Annual Conference of Fujian Systems Engineering Society, Quanzhou, China, November 2024

                      7.   Keynote speaker, 2024 Annual Conference of the Chinese Association of Automation (East China Section), Putian, China, August 2024

                      8.   Keynote speaker, 7th International Conference on Aeronautical, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Hong Kong, China, March 2024

                      9.   Keynote Speaker, 5th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Control Technologies, Chengdu, China, December 2023

                  10.   Keynote Speaker, 2023 TCCT Workshop on Cooperative Control and Multi-Agent Systems, Shanghai, China, October 2023

                  11.   Keynote Speaker, 7th Symposium of Chinese Nonlinear Systems and Control, Xiamen, China, October 2023

                  12.   Distinguished Lecture, 5th International Forum on Frontiers of Automation and Artificial Intelligence, Shenyang, China, August 2023

                  13.   Keynote Speaker, Symposium on Advanced Robotics and Automation, 8th World Robot Conference, Beijing, China, August 2023

                  14.   Keynote Speaker, 8th World Robot Conference, Beijing, China, August 2023

                  15.   Keynote Speaker, 2023 International Conference on Advanced Unmanned Aerial Systems, Toronto, Canada, July 2023

                  16.   Plenary Speaker, Frontier Forum on Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems, World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Shanghai, China, July 2023

                  17.   Plenary Speaker, International Frontier Forum of Engineering Science and Technology on Unmanned Intelligent Cluster, Beijing, China, January 2023

                  18.   Plenary Speaker, Southeastern China Science and Technology Forum: Integration of Digital Twin and Control Sciences Technologies, Xiamen, China, November 2022

                  19.   Plenary Speaker, 29th Frontier Forum of Science China Information Sciences: Fundamental Problems in Control of Systems with Uncertainties, Beijing, China, November 2022

                  20.   Plenary Speaker, Forum on Intelligent Control and Optimization for Unmanned Systems, World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Shanghai, China, September 2022

                  21.   Keynote Speaker, 17th International Conference on Computer Science and Education, Ningbo, China, August 2022

                  22.   Distinguished Speaker, 4th International Forum on Frontiers of Automation and Artificial Intelligence, Shenyang, China, August 2022

                  23.   Keynote Speaker, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Sanya, China, December 2021

                  24.   Plenary Speaker, Forum on Frontiers of AI Technologies, Alibaba Damo Academy, Hangzhou, China, December 2021

                  25.   Plenary Speaker, Innovative Robotics Technologies and Applications Forum, Hong Kong Centre for Logistics Robotics, Hong Kong, December 2021

                  26.   Plenary Speaker, Forum for Optimal Control and AI Technologies, Shandong University & Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China, December 2021

                  27.   Keynote Speaker, Southeastern China Science and Technology Forum, Xiamen, China, November 2021

                  28.   Keynote Speaker, 4th IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems, Beijing, China, October 2021

                  29.   Distinguished Speaker, 3rd International Forum on Frontiers of Automation and Artificial Intelligence, Shenyang, China, August 2021

                  30.   Plenary Speaker, Forum for New Generation Intelligent Unmanned System and Its Applications, World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Shanghai, China, July 2021

                  31.   Plenary Speaker, 3rd Workshop on Game, Optimization and Intelligent Control of Multi-agent Systems, Beijing, China, June 2021

                  32.   Keynote Speaker, 16th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), Singapore, December 2020

                  33.   Keynote Speaker, 9th IEEE Data Driven Control and Learning Systems Conference, Liuzhou, China, November 2020

                  34.   Distinguished Speaker, 2nd International Forum on Frontiers of Automation and Artificial Intelligence, Shenyang, China, October 2020

                  35.   Invited Speaker, 20th Anniversary of the Temasek Laboratories @ NUS, Singapore, October 2020

                  36.   Invited Speaker, 2020 International Forum on Innovation and Emerging Industries Development, Shanghai, China, September 2020

                  37.   Keynote Speaker, AERONEXT 2020 – Russian Drone Conference, Moscow, Russia, September 2020

                  38.   Invited Speaker, Shanghai University League’s Forum for International Young Scholars, Shanghai, China, May 2020

                  39.   Keynote Speaker, 2019 World Robot Conference, Beijing, China, August 2019

                  40.   Plenary Speaker, 2019 TCCT Workshop on Cooperative Control and Multi-Agent Systems, Shanghai, China, August 2019

                  41.   Keynote Speaker, 34th Youth Academic Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Automation, Jinzhou, China, June 2019

                  42.   Keynote Speaker, 31st Chinese Control and Decision Conference, Nanchang, China, June 2019

                  43.   Keynote Speaker, 2019 International Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Control, Ningbo, China, April 2019

                  44.   Plenary Speaker, Forum on the Frontiers of Information Technology and Electronic Engineering, Chinese Academy of Engineering, Beijing, China, March 2019

                  45.   Keynote Speaker, Inaugural Meeting of the Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Society, Chinese Mechatronic Association, Shenzhen, China, December 2018

                  46.   Keynote Speaker, 2018 Unmanned Systems & Intelligent Manufacturing Summit, Shanghai, China, September 2018

                  47.   Plenary Speaker, 2018 IEEE/CSAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Xiamen, China, August 2018

                  48.   Keynote Speaker, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics, Singapore, July 2018

                  49.   Plenary Speaker, 2018 Symposium on Autonomous Systems, Chongqing, China, May 2018

                  50.   Semi-plenary Speaker, 2017 Asian Control Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, December 2017

                  51.   Plenary Speaker, Global Unmanned Systems Conference 2017, Zhuhai, China, December 2017

                  52.   Keynote Speaker, 2017 International Conference on Computer and Drone Applications, Kuching, Malaysia, November 2017

                  53.   Speaker, 4th World Congress on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, Osaka, Japan, October 2017

                  54.   Keynote Speaker, 2017 International Micro Air Vehicles Conference and Competition, Toulouse, France, September 2017

                  55.   Keynote Speaker, 2016 International Conference on Electrical, Electronic, Communication and Control Engineering, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, December 2016

                  56.   Keynote Speaker, 2016 ETAI Conference, Struga, Macedonia, September 2016

                  57.   Keynote Speaker, 12th International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Xi'an, China, August 2016

                  58.   UAV Forum Speaker, 2016 Chinese Conference on Intelligent Equipment and Robotic Industry Development, Guangzhou, China, June 2016

                  59.   Keynote Speaker, 2015 China Trade about International Unmanned Vehicle Systems, Shenzhen, China, November 2015

                  60.   Keynote Speaker, Commercial UAV Show 2015, London, U.K., October 2015

                  61.   Keynote Speaker, 10th International Conference on Conference on Computer Science and Education, Cambridge, U.K., July 2015

                  62.   Keynote Speaker, 3rd Singapore-French Symposium, Singapore, February 2015

                  63.   Keynote Speaker, 10th International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Montreal, Canada, September-October 2014

                  64.   Keynote Speaker, 2014 Workshop on Distributed Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Dynamic Systems, Beijing, China, July 2014

                  65.   Plenary Speaker, 2014 Defence R&T Seminar, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, May 2014

                  66.   Keynote Speaker, 2013 Workshop on Distributed Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Dynamic Systems, Beijing, China, July 2013

                  67.   Keynote Speaker, 2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Atlanta, USA, May 2013

                  68.   Plenary Speaker, SMi's 12th Annual Conference on Unmanned Aerial Systems 2012, London, U.K., October 2012

                  69.   Keynote Speaker, 2012 China Guidance, Navigation and Control Congress, Beijing, China, August 2012

                  70.   Keynote Speaker, 2012 Workshop on Distributed Coordinated Control of Dynamic Multi-Agent Systems, Beijing, China, July 2012

                  71.   Distinguished Robotics and Mechatronics Lecturer, Singapore Robotic Games, Singapore, February 2012

                  72.   Plenary Speaker, 2012 International Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles, Bangalore, India, February 2012

                  73.   Plenary Speaker, 23rd Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics, Vancouver, Canada, June 2011

                  74.   Plenary Speaker, 13th IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications, Vancouver, Canada, June 2011

                  75.   Semi-Plenary Speaker, 23rd Chinese Control and Decision Conference, Mianyang, China, May 2011

                  76.   Plenary Speaker, 29th Chinese Control Conference, Beijing, China, July 2010

                  77.   Keynote Speaker, 2nd International Conference on Control, Instrumentation and Mechatronic Engineering, Malacca, Malaysia, June 2009

                  78.   Plenary Speaker, Unmanned Systems Asia 2009, Singapore, February 2009

                  79.   Keynote Speaker, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, Qingdao, China, September 2008

                  80.   Keynote Speaker, International Colloquium on Computing, Communication, Control and Management, Guangzhou, China, August 2008

* Plenary Panelists

                      1.   Plenary Panel Chair, 7th International Conference on Industrial Artificial Intelligence, Shenyang, China, August 2025

                      2.   Plenary Panel Chair, 44th Chinese Control Conference, Chongqing, China, July 2025

                      3.   Plenary Panel Chair, 19th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation, Tallinn, Estonia, June–July 2025

                      4.   Plenary Panel Chair, 43rd Chinese Control Conference, Kunming, China, July 2024

                      5.   Plenary Panel Chair, 2024 Workshop on Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Shanghai, China, March 2024

                      6.   Plenary Panel Chair, 42nd Chinese Control Conference, Tianjin, China, July 2023

                      7.   Plenary Panel Chair, 41st Chinese Control Conference, Hefei, China, July 2022

                      8.   Plenary Panelist, 12th International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition, Puebla, Mexico, November 2021

                      9.   Plenary Panel Chair, 40th Chinese Control Conference, Shanghai, China, July 2021

                   10.   Plenary Panel Chair, 39th Chinese Control Conference, Shenyang, China, July 2020

                   11.   Plenary Panel Chair, 16th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Sapporo, Japan, October 2020

                   12.   Plenary Panel Chair, 38th Chinese Control Conference, Guangzhou, China, July 2019

                   13.   Plenary Panel Chair, 15th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2019

                   14.   Plenary Panelist, 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Singapore, November 2018

                   15.   Plenary Panel Chair, 37th Chinese Control Conference, Wuhan, China, July 2018

                   16.   Forum Panelist, Commercial UAV Show Asia 2016, Singapore, September 2016

                   17.   Plenary Panelist, 35th Chinese Control Conference, Chengdu, China, July 2016

                   18.   Plenary Panelist, 13th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Singapore, December 2014

                   19.   Plenary Panel Chair, 11th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Taichung, Taiwan, June 2014

                   20.   Plenary Panelist, 10th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Beijing, China, July 2012

                   21.   Plenary Panelist, 8th Asian Control Conference, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, May 2011

                   22.   Plenary Panel Chair, 29th Chinese Control Conference, Beijing, China, July 2010

                   23.   Plenary Panel Chair, 27th Chinese Control Conference, Kunming, China, July 2008

                   24.   Plenary Panel Chair, 3rd International Conference on Computer Science and Education, Kaifeng, China, July 2008

                   25.   Plenary Panelist, 26th Chinese Control Conference, Zhangjiajie, China, July 2007

                   26.   Plenary Panelist, 1st International Conference on Computer Science and Education, Xiamen, China, July 2006

* Invited Talks, Seminars and Workshops

                      1.   Embodied Intelligent UAS and LLM-Assisted DT Technologies towards Very Low-Altitude Economy, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, October 2025

                      2.   Unmanned Systems Technologies for Smart City Applications, University of Victoria, Canada, September 2024

                      3.   Advanced Unmanned and AI Systems for Infrastructure Inspection, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, September 2024

                      4.   Unmanned Systems Technologies for Smart City Applications, Northeastern University, China, August 2024

                      5.   Unmanned Systems Technologies for Smart City Applications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, July 2024

                      6.   Unmanned Systems Technologies for Smart City Applications, Wuhan University, China, July 2024

                      7.   Unmanned Systems Technologies for Smart City Applications, Xiamen University, May 2024

                      8.   AI and UAS Technologies for Infrastructure Inspection and Reconstruction, Beihang University at Hangzhou, China, April 2024

                      9.   AI and UAS Technologies for Infrastructure Inspection and Reconstruction, South China University of Technology, April 2024

                  10.   Advanced Unmanned and AI Systems for Infrastructure Inspection and Management, Fuzhou University, China, December 2023

                  11.   Autonomous Unmanned Systems Technologies and Applications, Pre-Conference Workshop, 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Singapore, December 2023

                  12.   Advanced AI and Unmanned Systems for Infrastructure Inspection and Management, City University of Hong Kong, October 2023

                  13.   Autonomous UAS and Its Applications, Tongji University, China, July 2023

                  14.   Infrastructure Inspection and Information Management with AI and UAS Technologies, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China, April 2023

                  15.   Infrastructure Inspection and Information Management with Multi-agent Unmanned Aerial Systems and AI Technologies, Fujian Polytechnic Normal University, Fujian, China, April 2023

                  16.   Control and Autonomous Systems and Their Applications, Shanghai Maritime University, China, December 2022

                  17.   Control and Autonomous Systems and Their Applications, Hangzhou Innovation Institute, Beihang University, Hangzhou, China, December 2022

                  18.   Control and Autonomous Systems and Their Applications, South China University of Technology, China, September 2022

                  19.   Infrastructure Inspection Technologies, Summer School on Artificial Intelligence for Chinese University Students, Tongji University, China, August, 2022

                  20.   AI and UAS Technologies for Buildings Inspection and Information Management, Xi’an University of Technology, China, December 2021

                  21.   AI and UAS Technologies for Buildings Inspection, Shanghai Maritime University, China, December 2021

                  22.   On the Development of Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Xiamen University, China, August 2021

                  23.   Building Inspection with Autonomous Unmanned Systems and AI Technologies, Minjiang University, China, 2021

                  24.   Autonomous UAS and Its Applications, Tongji University, China, July 2021

                  25.   Autonomous UAS and Its Applications, Hangzhou Innovation Institute, Beihang University, Hangzhou, China, May 2021

                  26.   Research Trends in Developing Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China (Online), December 2020

                  27.   Outstanding Scholar Lecture Series, International Workshop Autumn 2020, China University of Geoscience, Wuhan, China, November 2020

                  28.   Nankai University International E-Forum on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Tianjin, China, November 2020

                  29.   On Fully Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, November 2019

                  30.   On Fully Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Minjiang University, Fuzhou, China, August 2019

                  31.   Task and Motion Planning for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, July 2019

                  32.   On Fully Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, June 2019

                  33.   Task and Motion Planning for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, June 2019

                  34.   Task and Motion Planning for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, June 2019

                  35.   Task and Motion Planning for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, May 2019

                  36.   Development of Fully Autonomous Unmanned Systems, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, March 2019

                  37.   Development of Fully Autonomous Unmanned Systems, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, January 2019

                  38.   Development of Fully Autonomous Unmanned Systems, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, September 2018

                  39.   Development of Fully Autonomous Drones for Industrial Applications, Xiamen University (Malaysia), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 2018

                  40.   Development of Intelligent Unmanned Aerial Systems for Industrial Applications, Fujian Normal University at Fuqing, Fuqing, China, April 2018

                  41.   Development of Intelligent Unmanned Aerial Systems for Industrial Applications, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, March 2018

                  42.   Development of Intelligent Unmanned Aerial Systems, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, February 2018

                  43.   Notes on Techniques Developed for 2017 International Micro Air Vehicles Competition, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, October 2017

                  44.   Development of Fully Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems, Chinese University of Hong Kong, September 2017

                  45.   Drones and Unmanned Systems Research at NUS, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, June 2017

                  46.   Navigation and Control of Drones in GPS-Denied Environments, 1st Symposium on Autonomous Systems, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, June 2017

                  47.   Modeling and Control of a Tail-Sitter Hybrid UAV, International Workshop on Nonlinear and Distributed Control, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, June 2017

                  48.   Key Technologies in Unmanned Aerial Systems, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Sri Lanka, March 2017

                  49.   Unmanned Aerial Systems and UAV Research at National University of Singapore, Fuzhou University, China, May 2016

                  50.   Recent Trends in Unmanned Systems Research, South China University of Technology, China, April 2016

                  51.   Unmanned Systems Research at National University of Singapore, Beihang University, China, August 2015

                  52.   Autonomous Navigation and Control of MAVs in Cluttered Environments, IEEE Hong Kong RACS Workshop on Systems and Control, Hong Kong, July 2015

                  53.   Navigation and Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in GPS-denied Environments, Loughborough University, U.K., July 2015

                  54.   NUS UAV Research, National Chi Nan University University, Taiwan, June 2014

                  55.   UAV Research at NUS, Chinese University of Hong Kong, February 2014

                  56.   UAV Research at NUS, City University of Hong Kong, February 2014

                  57.   Research of Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems, Nanqiang Semminar Series, Xiamen University, China, June 2013

                  58.   Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Research at NUS, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 2013

                  59.   Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems, Fuzhou University, China, June 2013

                  60.   Recent Development on Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems, Fujian Normal University, Fuqing, Fujian, China, June 2013

                  61.   Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems, Pre-conference Workshop conducted at the 10th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Beijing, China, August 2012

                  62.   Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Short course conducted at Singapore Robotic Games, Singapore, 2012

                  63.   Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems, Tsinghua University, China, June 2011

                  64.   Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems, Short course conducted at South China University of Technology, China, June 2011

                  65.   Recent Development of Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, December 2010

                  66.   Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, December 2010

                  67.   Modeling and forecasting of stock markets under a system adaptation framework, Fuzhou University, China, June 2010

                  68.   Composite Nonlinear Feedback Control, Short course conducted at Peking University, China, May 2010

                  69.   Modeling and analysis of financial markets under a system dynamics adaptation framework, Beijing Institute of Technology, China, May 2010

                  70.   Research and Development of Unmanned Helicopter Systems, Tongji University, China, May 2009

                  71.   Development of Unmanned Helicopter Systems, IEEE RACS'09 - 2009 Workshop on Robotics, Automation and Control Systems, Macau, May 2009

                  72.   Unmanned Helicopter Systems and HDD Servo Systems, Short Course in Control Science & Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, May 2009

                  73.   Some Views on Research, Embassy of the People's Republic of China, Singapore, March 2009

                  74.   HDD Servo Systems, Summer Short Course Series: Advances in Automation and Control, Xiamen University, China, July 2008

                  75.   Research in Control, Technological University of Malaysia, Malaysia, May 2008

                  76.   Some Control and Out-of-control MATLAB Toolkits, Workshop on Systems Theory and Control, University of Texas at Arlington, USA, December 2007

                  77.   Construction, Modeling and Automatic Control of a UAV Helicopter, Fuzhou University, China, June 2007

                  78.   Construction, Modeling and Automatic Control of a UAV Helicopter, Workshop on Systems Theory and Control, South China University of Technology, China, May 2007

                  79.   Construction, Modeling and Automatic Control of a UAV Helicopter, University of Science & Technology of China, China, March 2007

                  80.   Modeling and Control of an UAV Helicopter, NUS-PKU Joint Summer Program on Mathematical Modeling, National University of Singapore, June 2006

                  81.   Advances in Modeling and Control of Flexible Mechanical Systems, International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Udine, Italy, June 2006

                  82.   Tracking Control for a Class of Nonlinear Discrete-time Systems with Input Saturation, University of Manchester, U.K., December 2005

                  83.   Construction, Modeling and Control of a UAV Helicopter, 2005 Sino-Japanese Workshop on Advanced Information Technology, Xiamen University, China, December 2005

                  84.   Tracking Control for a Class of Nonlinear Systems with Input Saturation, 2005 Joint Workshop on Control and Automation, Nanjing, China, July 2005

                  85.   Composite Nonlinear Feedback Control and Its Applications, 24th Chinese Control Conference, Guangzhou, China, July 2005

                  86.   Modeling and Compensation of Nonlinearities and Friction in a Micro Hard Disk Drive Servo System, Nanqiang Seminar Series, Xiamen University, China, June 2005

                  87.   Rectification and Recognition of Document Images with Perspective and Geometric Distortions, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, April 2005

                  88.   Structural Decomposition and Its Properties of General Multivariable Descriptor Systems, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, March 2004

                  89.   Comprehensive Modeling and Compensation of Nonlinearities and Friction in an HDD Servo System, Harbin Institute of Technology at Shenzhen, China, March 2004

                  90.   Composite Nonlinear Feedback Control for a Class of Linear Systems with Input Saturation: Theory and Applications, Data Storage Institute, Singapore, July 2003

                  91.   Internet: Applications & Trends, Fujian Provincial Government, Fuzhou, China, June 2001

                  92.   Internet: Applications & Trends, Fuqing City Government, Fuqing, China, June 2001

                  93.   Web-based Virtual Laboratories, Xiamen University, China, June 2001

                  94.   Introduction to Control Theory and Applications, Data Storage Institute, Singapore, October 2000

                  95.   Development of Internet Based Virtual Laboratories, Xiamen Longtop System Co., China, June 1999

                  96.   H Control and Its Applications, Xiamen University, China, June 1998

                  97.   The Applications of H Control in Hard Disk Drive and Gyro-stabilized Mirror Systems, Tsinghua University, China, June 1998

                  98.   Computation of Infimum in H Optimization, Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, June 1998

                  99.   Structural Mapping of Bilinear Transformation and Solution to Discrete-time Riccati Equations, Peking University, China, June 1998

              100.   Mapping of Structural Properties of Bilinear Transformation, University of Virginia, USA, June 1998

              101.   Special Coordinate Basis of Linear Multivariable Systems, University of Melbourne, Australia, June 1997

              102.   Solvability Conditions for the Disturbance Decoupling Problems with Static Measurement Feedback, University of Melbourne, Australia, June 1997

              103.   Structural Mappings of Bilinear and Inverse Bilinear Transformations, Xiamen University, China, April 1997

              104.   An H Almost Disturbance Decoupling Robust Controller Design for a Piezoelectric Bimorph Actuator with Hysteresis, University of Melbourne, Australia, June 1996

              105.   Closed-form Solutions to A Class of H Optimal Control Problems, National University of Singapore, Singapore, July 1994

              106.   Closed-form Solutions to A Class of H Optimal Control Problems, Xiamen University, China, April 1994

              107.   A Non-recursive Method for Solving the General Discrete-time Riccati Equations, Xiamen University, China, April 1994

              108.   Robust Multivariable Control Design: Theory and Practice, 1992 AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA, August 1992

              109.   Loop Transfer Recovery Design for an Aircraft Control System, Hofstra University, USA, May 1992

              110.   Loop Transfer Recovery for Multivariable Linear Systems, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA, May 1992

              111.   Loop Transfer Recovery for Multivariable Linear Systems, Oregon State University, USA, April 1992

              112.   Recent Advances in H2-optimal Control, University of Washington, USA, March 1992

* Other Activities in Technical Conferences

                      1.   International Committee Member, 16th International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition, Puebla, Mexico, November 2025

                      2.   International Committee Member, 15th International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition, Bristol, U.K., September 2024

                      3.   Workshop and Panel Co-Chair, 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Singapore, December 2023

                      4.   International Committee Member, 14th International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition, Aachen, Germany, September 2023

                      5.   Member of Program Committee, 42nd Chinese Control Conference, Tianjin, China, July 2023

                      6.   General Co-Chair, 2023 International Symposium on Cooperative Autonomous Systems, Shenzhen, China, July 2023

                      7.   International Advisory Committee, 10th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems & 10th IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics, Penang, Malaysia, June 2023.

                      8.   Member of Technical Program Committee, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Xishuangbanna, China, December 2022

                      9.   International Advisor, 2022 International Conference on Computer and Drone Applications, Dewan Jubli, Sarawak, Malaysia, November 2022

                  10.   Member of International Committee, 13th International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition, Delft, The Netherlands, September 2022

                  11.   General Chair, 17th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation, Naples, Italy, June 2022

                  12.   Member of International Advisory Committee, 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 2022

                  13.   Member of Technical Program Committee, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Sanya, China, December 2021

                  14.   Member of International Committee, 12th International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition, Puebla, Mexico, November 2021

                  15.   Member of International Advisory Committee, 2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Athens, Greece, June 2021

                  16.   Panel Chair, 16th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, October 2020

                  17.   Organizing Co-Chair, 2020 Mini International Workshop on Deep Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, September 2020

                  18.   Member of International Advisory Committee, 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Athens, Greece, September 2020

                  19.   Panel Chair, 15th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Edinburg, Scotland, UK, July 2019

                  20.   Member of International Advisory Committee, 2019 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Atlanta, USA, June 2019

                  21.   General Chair, 14th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, June 2018

                  22.   Member of Technical Program Committee, 2017 Asian Control Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, December 2017

                  23.   Member of Advisory Board, 2017 International Conference on Computer and Drone Applications, Kuching, Malaysia, November 2017

                  24.   Member of Advisory Board, 2017 International Micro Air Vehicles Conference and Competition, Toulouse, France, September 2017

                  25.   Invited Session Chair, 36th Chinese Control Conference, Dalian, China, July 2017

                  26.   Publicity Chair, 13th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Ohrid, Macedonia, July 2017

                  27.   General Co-Chair, 2016 International Micro Air Vehicles Conference and Competition, Beijing, China, October 2016

                  28.   Member of International Advisory Committee, 12th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, USA, August 2016

                  29.   IPC Member, 10th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, Monterey, California, USA, August 2016

                  30.   IPC Member and Associate Editor, 22nd International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Minneapolis, USA, July 2016

                  31.   Invited Session Chair, 35th Chinese Control Conference, Chengdu, China, July 2016

                  32.   Invited Session Chair, 13th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Guilin, China, June 2016

                  33.   Publicity Chair, 12th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Kathmandu, Nepal, June 2016

                  34.   Invited Session Chair, 34th Chinese Control Conference, Hangzhou, China, July 2015

                  35.   Member of Conference Steering Committee, 2015 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Denver, USA, June 2015

                  36.   International Advisory/Steering Committee, 10th International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Montreal, Canada, October 2014

                  37.   Tutorial Workshop Chair, 11th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Shenyang, China, July 2014

                  38.   Pre-conference Workshop Chair, 33th Chinese Control Conference, Nanjing, China, July 2014

                  39.   IPC Member and Associate Editor, 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Groningen, The Netherlands, June 2014

                  40.   Member of Conference Steering Committee, 2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Orlando, USA, June 2014

                  41.   Publicity Chair, 11th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Taichung, Taiwan, June 2014

                  42.   Member of Program Committee, 2013 International Conference on Information and Automation, Yinchuan, China, August 2013

                  43.   Invited Session Chair, 32nd Chinese Control Conference, Xi'an, China, July 2013

                  44.   Finance Chair, 10th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Hangzhou, China, June 2013

                  45.   Award Committee Chair, 3rd Annual IEEE International Conference on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control and Intelligent Systems, Nanjing, China, May 2013

                  46.   General Chair, 2012 IASTED International Conference on Engineering and Applied Science, Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 2012

                  47.   Program Co-Chair, 10th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Beijing, China, July 2012

                  48.   Member of International Advisory Committee, 3rd International Conference on Control, Instrumentation and Mechatronics, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 2012

                  49.   Publicity Committee Co-Chair, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, Shenyang, China, June 2012

                  50.   Member of Organizing Committee, 15th International Conference on Information Fusion, Singapore, July 2012

                  51.   Publicity Chair, 9th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Santiago, Chile, December 2011

                  52.   IPC Member, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation, Beijing, China, July 2011

                  53.   IPC Member, 30th Chinese Control Conference, Yantai, Shandong, China, July 2011

                  54.   IPC Member, 13th IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications, Vancouver, Canada, June 2011

                  55.   Award Committee Chair, 8th Asian Control Conference, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, May 2011

                  56.   IPC Member, 1st Australian Control Conference, Melbourne, Australia, November 2011

                  57.   Member of Program Committee, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, Hong Kong, China, August 2010

                  58.   Regional Program Chair, 2010 World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Jinan, China, July 2010

                  59.   General Chair, 8th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Xiamen, China, June 2010

                  60.   Member of Advisory Committee, International Conference on Control, Communication and Computing, Trivandrum, India, February 2010

                  61.   Publications Co-Chair, Combined 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control & 28th Chinese Control Conference, Shanghai, China, December 2009

                  62.   Regional Chair, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, Shenyang, China, August 2009

                  63.   Publicity Chair, 7th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Christchurch, New Zealand, December 2009

                  64.   Publicity Chair, 7th Asian Control Conference, Hong Kong, China, August 2009

                  65.   Member of Advisory Committee, 2nd International Conference on Control, Instrumentation and Mechatronic Engineering, Malacca, Malaysia, June 2009

                  66.   Member of Advisory Committee, 2nd International Symposium on Electronic Commerce and Security, Nanchang, China, May 2009

                  67.   Member of Technical Program Committee, 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 2008

                  68.   IPC Member, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Singapore, October 2008

                  69.   IPC Member, 3rd International Conference on Computer Science and Education, Kaifeng, China, July 2008

                  70.   Award Committee Member, 27th Chinese Control Conference, Kunming, China, July 2008

                  71.   Award Committee Co-Chair, 7th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Chongqing, China, June 2008

                  72.   IPC Member, 10th IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education, Beijing, China, October 2007

                  73.   General Co-Chair, 2nd International Conference on Computer Science & Education, Wuhan, China, July 2007

                  74.   IPC Member, 9th IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications, Montreal, Canada, May–June 2007

                  75.   Publicity Chair, 6th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Guangzhou, China, May–June 2007

                  76.   Member of Technical Program Committee, 9th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Singapore, December 2006

                  77.   Technical Committee Member, 4th International IEEE Conference on Industrial Informatics, Singapore, August 2006

                  78.   General Co-Chair, 1st International Conference on Computer Science & Education, Xiamen, China, July 2006

                  79.   IPC Member, 2nd African Control Conference, Durban, South Africa, September 2006

                  80.   IPC Member, 6th Asian Control Conference, Bali, Indonesia, July 2006

                  81.   IPC Member, International Symposium on Collaborative Research in Applied Science, Vancouver, Canada, October 2005

                  82.   Program Committee Member, 24th Chinese Control Conference, Guangzhou, China, July 2005

                  83.   General Chair, 5th International Conference on Control and Automation, Budapest, Hungary, June 2005

                  84.   Principal Member of Technical Program Committee, 8th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Kunming, China, December 2004

                  85.   IPC Member, 2004 International Conference on Dynamics, Instrumentation & Control, Nanjing, China, August 2004

                  86.   IPC Member, 5th Asian Control Conference, Melbourne, Australia, July 2004

                  87.   IPC Member, 1st African Control Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, December 2003

                  88.   Publicity Chair, 18th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, Houston, USA, October 2003

                  89.   IPC Member, 4th International Conference on Control and Automation, Montreal, Canada, June 2003

                  90.   IPC Member, 17th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, Vancouver, Canada, October 2002 

                  91.   Finance Chair, 4th Asian Control Conference, Singapore, September 2002

                  92.   IPC Member, Information, Decision and Control Conference 2002, Adelaide, Australia, February 2002

                  93.   Program Co-Chair, 2002 International Conference on Control and Automation, Xiamen, China, January 2002

                  94.   Technical Chair, 3rd International Conference on Control Theory & Applications, Pretoria, South Africa, December 2001

                  95.   Publication Chair, IEEE Singapore International Symposium on Control Theory & Applications, Singapore, July 1997