Yiguang Hong

Biography

Yiguang Hong is the Guan Zhaozhi Professor at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Peking University in 1987 and 1990, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from CAS in 1993. He is currently director of the CAS Key Laboratory of Systems and Control and director of the CAS Information Technology Division of the National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Science. He is also a vice president of the Technical Committee on Control Theory of the Chinese Automation Association, which organizes the Chinese Control Conference each year. His research interests are in nonlinear control, distributed optimization and control, software reliability, automata, and artificial intelligence. He has served as an associate editor of many journals, including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and currently is the editor-in-chief of Control Theory and Technology and an associate editor of CSM and IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. He is the author of more than 200 journal and proceedings papers. Among his honors are the Young Author Prize of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) World Congress, Youth Award of Science and Technology of China, and the State Natural Science Prize of China.