Tao Yang

Biography

Tao Yang (Senior Member, IEEE) is a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries, Northeastern University. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of North Texas, Denton, USA, from 2016 to 2019. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Washington State University in 2012. From August 2012 to August 2014, he was an ACCESS postdoctoral researcher with the ACCESS Linnaeus Centre at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. He then joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher and was promoted to Scientist/Engineer II in 2015.

His research interests include industrial artificial intelligence, integrated optimization and control, distributed control and optimization with applications to process industries, cyber-physical systems, networked control systems, and multi-agent systems. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, and IEEE Control Systems Letters. He is a recipient of the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award and Best Student Paper Awards (as advisor) at several international conferences.