Li

QIU

丘立

Prof. Li Qiu received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada, in 1990. He joined Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China, in 1993, where he is now a Professor of Electronic & Computer Engineering.

Prof. Qiu's research interests include system, control, information theory, and mathematics for information technology, as well as their applications in manufacturing industry and energy systems. He is also interested in control education and coauthored an undergraduate textbook "Introduction to Feedback Control" which was published by Prentice-Hall in 2009. This book has so far had its North American edition, International edition, and Indian edition. The Chinese Mainland edition is to appear soon. He served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and an associate editor of Automatica. He was the general chair of the 7th Asian Control Conference, which was held in Hong Kong in 2009. He was a Distinguished Lecturer from 2007 to 2010 and is a member of the Board of Governors in 2012 of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is the founding chairperson of the Hong Kong Automatic Control Association, serving the term 2014-2017. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IFAC.