Distinguished Lecture: Prof. Li Qiu – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Date and time: 28 August 2024, 14:00-15:00 CEST
Speaker: Prof. Li Qiu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Title: A Renaissance of Phase
Where: Digital Futures hub, Osquars Backe 5, floor 2 at KTH main campus OR Zoom
Directions: https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/contact/how-to-get-here/
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Zoom: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/69560887455
Meeting ID: 695 6088 7455
Moderator: Karl H Johansson
Administrator: TBC
Abstract: The phase or argument of a complex number is an important yet elementary concept essential to almost all scientific disciplines. In signal and system theory, the concept of phase plays an extremely important role. However, in the era of MIMO systems, the role of phase diminished until very recently, when we revived the study of phase and its applications in complex systems. In this talk, we will examine the progress achieved in this study, starting from the phase of a matrix to the phase of a nonlinear network.
Biography: Prof. Li Qiu received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto in 1990. After briefly working in the Canadian Space Agency, the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences (Waterloo), and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (Minneapolis), he joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1993 and now is a professor in Electronic and Computer Engineering. In September 2024, he will join the Chinese University of Hong Kong at Shenzhen as a Presidential Chair Professor.
Prof. Qiu’s research interests include system, control, optimization theory, and mathematics for information technology, as well as their applications in the manufacturing industry and energy systems. He is also interested in control education and co-authored an undergraduate textbook, “Introduction to Feedback Control, ” published by Prentice-Hall in 2009. He was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Automatica.
He was the general chair of the 7th Asian Control Conference held in Hong Kong in 2009. He was a Distinguished Lecturer from 2007 to 2010 and was a member of the Board of Governors in 2012 and 2017 of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He was the founding chairperson of the Hong Kong Automatic Control Association and a vice president of the Asian Control Association. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of IFAC, and an inaugural Fellow of the Asian Control Association (ACA).