Personal Profile

Chao Zhai is a Full Professor at Department of Automatic Control, School of Automation, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China. He received the bachelor’s degree in automation engineering from Henan University, China, the master’s degree in control theory and control engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, and the PhD in complex systems and control from Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2013. From July 2013 to August 2015, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK. From October 2015 to January 2016, he was a Research Associate at Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong. From February 2016 to October 2019, he was a Research Fellow at Singapore-ETH Centre, ETH Zurich and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Since November 2019, he has been affiliated with China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.

He was TPC members of several international conferences such as IEEE Global Communications Conference: Selected Areas in Communications (2021,2022) and IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (2022), and he received some awards and honors for his academic achievements, including CUG Fellowship, Excellent Master Thesis of Hubei Province, Best Conference Paper Finalist, ICARCV (2010), and so on.

His research interests include coverage control of multi-agent system, distributed control, optimal control, resilient systems, power system stability, and social motor coordination. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and he has over 60 peer-reviewed publications, including 2 monographs.