Huijun Gao - Biography#

Dr. Gao received the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2005. From 2005 to 2007, he carried out his postdoctoral research with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada. He also received the Doctor Honoris Causa Honorary Award, Obuda University, Hungary, in 2017. Since 2004, he has been with the Harbin Institute of Technology, where he is currently a Full Professor, and the Director of the Research Institute of Intelligent Control and Systems. He is also an honorary Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong. He was a Royal Society Research Fellow at Brunel University (2008), and a Visiting Professor at University of Agder (2011).

He is a Vice President of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), a Council Member of IFAC, and a keynote/plenary speaker for 10+ reputed international conferences (including IEEE IECON, IEEE SMC). He was the Co-Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics from 2014-2020. He also serves as the Senior Editor for IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, and the Associate Editor for Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and other 6 international SCI journals. He also served as the Guest Editors for 10+ international SCI journals. He is a distinguished lecturer of IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society.

He has been conducting world-leading research in areas of networked control systems, signal and image processing, robotics and mechatronics. He has published 380+ SCI papers (including 200+ Automatica and IEEE Transactions papers) with an H-index of 120 (by Google Scholar), in which 68 papers are Highly Cited Papers. His total citations amount to 43000+ by Google Scholar. In addition, he has published 5 monographs and authorized 100+ invention patents.

In view of Dr. Gao's outstanding research achievement, he has been elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2013. He has been named as Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering for consecutive 7 years from 2014-2020 by Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thompson Reuters). He was named as The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds by Thomson Reuters in 2014. He also received the National Natural Science Awards (two times).