I am Ben
M. Chen, born in Fuqing, Fujian, China, on November 25, 1963, received a B.S. degree in mathematics and computer science from Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China,
in July 1983, an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from
Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington,
USA, in May 1988, and a Ph.D. degree in
electrical & computer engineering from Washington
State University, Pullman, Washington, USA, in August 1991. I am
currently a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
(MAE), the Chinese University of Hong
Kong (CUHK).
I was a software engineer in
South-China Computer Corporation, Guangzhou, China, from July 1983 to March
1986. From August 1991 to August 1992, I was a postdoctoral associate at Washington State University, and was an
assistant professor from August 1992 to August 1993 in the Department of
Electrical Engineering, the State University of New York
at Stony Brook, USA. From August 1993 to August 2018, I was with the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
National University of Singapore (NUS),
where I held various academic positions including lecturer, senior lecturer,
associate professor, professor and Provost's Chair Professorship.
I was also serving as the Director of Control, Intelligent Systems and Robotics
Area, and the Head of Control Sciences Group, NUS Temasek Laboratories. My research
focuses used to be in control theory and applications, as well as in financial
market modeling. My current research interests are in the development of unmanned systems technologies and their industrial
applications.
I am the author/co-author of the research monographs, Loop
Transfer Recovery: Analysis and Design (New York: Springer, 1993); H2 Optimal
Control (London: Prentice Hall, 1995); H∞
Control and Its Applications (New York: Springer, 1998; Chinese
Version published by Science Press, Beijing, 2010); Robust and H∞ Control (New York: Springer, 2000); Hard
Disk Drive Servo Systems (New York: Springer, 2002); Creating
Web-Based Laboratories (New York: Springer, 2004); Linear Systems Theory: A Structural Decomposition Approach
(Boston: Birkhauser, 2004; Chinese Version published by Tsinghua University Press,
Beijing, 2008); Hard Disk Drive Servo Systems (2nd Edition)
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I held associate
editor appointments with the Conference Editorial Board of IEEE Control Systems Society (1997–1998),
Chinese Control Conference Editorial Board (2008–2012), IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control (1999–2001), Asian Journal of Control (2002), Control and
Intelligent Systems (2002–2007), Automatica (2005–2008), Journal of Control
Science and Engineering (2006–2009), Transactions of the Institute of
Measurement and Control (2007–2010), Systems & Control Letters (2004–2010),
an editor-at-large for Journal of Control Theory and Applications (2008–2013),
a member of international advisory board of Kuwait Journal of Science &
Engineering (2003–2013), associate editors for Frontiers of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering (2010–2012), IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica
Sinica (2014–2016), Journal of Systems Science and
Complexity (2014–2019), and Science China: Information Sciences (2015–2023). I
currently serve as an editor-in-chief of Unmanned Systems
(2012–), deputy editor-in-chief of Control Theory and Technology
(2013–), associate editor of Autonomous
Intelligent Systems (2020–), and editor of International Journal of
Robust and Nonlinear Control (2022–).
I was elected to an IEEE Fellow, Institute
of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, in 2007; CAA Fellow, Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), China,
in 2015; and SAEng Fellow, the Academy
of Engineering, Singapore, in 2020. I served as the Chair of IEEE Singapore Control Systems Chapter in 2002 and
2003; and the general chair of 5th IEEE International Conference on Control and
Automation, Budapest, Hungary, 2005; 8th IEEE International Conference on
Control and Automation, Xiamen, China, 2010; and 14th IEEE International
Conference on Control and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 2018. I am
currently serving as a member of Technical Committee on Control Theory, Chinese
Association of Automation, China (2008-). I have been invited to deliver
keynote and plenary speeches at international conferences held in USA, China,
Canada, UK, India, Malaysia, Australia and Russia.
I was the recipient
of the Best Poster Paper Award, 2nd Asian Control
Conference, Seoul, Korea (1997); University Researcher Award,
National University of Singapore (2000); Prestigious Engineering
Achievement Award, Institution of Engineers, Singapore (2001); Temasek
Young Investigator Award, Defence Science & Technology Agency,
Singapore (2003); Best Industrial Control Application Prize,
5th Asian Control Conference, Melbourne, Australia (2004); Best
Application Paper Award, 7th Asian Control Conference, Hong Kong
(2009); Best Application Paper Award, 8th World
Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Jinan, China (2010); and Outstanding
Contribution Award, Technical Committee on Control Theory, Chinese
Association of Automation, China (2022).
My unmanned systems
research team was selected as one of the 9 finalists, out of 144 teams from 153
countries, to take part in the final fly-off in the 2012 DARPA UAVForge Challenge, held in Fort Stewart, Georgia, USA, May
2012. The Challenge, with no winner declared, was organized by the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), USA. In the 2nd AVIC Cup:
International UAV Innovation Grand Prix, held in Beijing, China, September
2013, my unconventional aircraft team was awarded a New Innovation Star Award;
my rotorcraft team finished a 2nd place in the Rotary-Wing Competition (1st in the final round),
for which its technical innovation was awarded the Guan Zhao-Zhi Award
at the 33rd Chinese Control Conference held in Nanjing, China, 2014. My UAV
team was the champion at the 2014 International Micro
Aerial Vehicle (IMAV) Competition, held in Delft, the Netherlands,
August 2014, and was the 1st runner up at
the 2015 International Micro Aerial Vehicle (IMAV) Competition, held in Aachen
Germany, September 2015. My drone team AeroLion claimed the championship in the
Rotary-Wing Competition at the 3rd AVIC Cup: International UAV
Innovation Grand Prix, held in Zhejiang, China, October 2015, and swept both
the indoor and outdoor competition championships at the 2017
International Micro Aerial Vehicle (IMAV) Competition, held in Toulouse,
France, September 2017. NUS UAV Team is a constant winner of many major awards in
the annual Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition.
I am married to Feng
with three kids, Andy, Jamie and Wen. My hobbies include Chinese
chess, table tennis, basketball, swimming, bowling and TV sports, especially
the American football. I am a diehard fan of the Washington State Cougars. My favorite
music includes
Department of Mechanical
& Automation Engineering
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
Office: Room ERB 311
Phone: (852)-3943-8054, Fax: (852)-2603-6002
Email: bmchen@cuhk.edu.hk or bmchen@ieee.org
Website: http://www.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/~bmchen/
or www.bmchen.net