Jing Zhou

Biography

Jing Zhou is a Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Agder, Norway. She is the leader of Robotics and Automation group, and the research director of Priority Research Center of Mechatronics. Prior to joining the University of Agder in 2016, she was a senior research scientist at International Research Institute of Stavanger in Norway from 2009 to 2016 and a Postdoctoral fellow at Norwegian University of Science and Technology from 2007 to 2009, respectively. She received the Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2006. Her research interests include adaptive control, nonlinear control, adaptive dynamics programming control, non-smooth nonlinearities, network control systems, robotics and mechatronics, and control applications to offshore operations, drilling and well systems, crane systems, marine vessels, and energy systems.

Dr. Zhou is a Fellow of Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA) and holds a position as an AdCom members-at-large at IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. She serves as an Associate Editor for several journals, including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Neural networks and Learning Systems, Systems & Control Letters, and the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society. She has been actively involved in organizing IEEE conferences in the roles of General Chair, General Co-Chair, Technical Program Chair, Technical Program Committee, Invited Session Chair.