Biography
Dr Jing Na is currently a Professor with the Faculty of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering at Kunming University of Science & Technology, and also a Marie Curie Fellow with the University of Bristol, UK. He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, China, in 2004 and 2010, respectively. From January 2011 to December 2012, he was a Monaco/ITER Postdoctoral Fellow with the ITER Organization, France. Since 2010, he has been with the Kunming University of Science & Technology, where he was promoted to be a full Professor in 2013. He has hold also visiting positions with the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain (6 months in 2008), and with the University of Bristol, UK (12 months in 2009). Dr Na is currently an Associate Editor of the Neurocomputing, and the International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control. He has served as an international program committee Chair of ICMIC 2017, and IPC member of many international conferences (e.g., IEEE CASE, IEEE CIS&RAM, IFAC ICONS, etc).He has organized/co-organized several special issues on Complexity, Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, and invited session in several prestigious conferences (e.g. IEEE CDC, UKACC, CCC). His current research interests include parameter estimation, adaptive optimal control, and nonlinear control with application to vehicle systems, servo mechanisms and energy conversion plants (e.g. engine, wave energy convertors, etc.). He has published more than 100peer reviewed journal and conference papers. Dr Na has been awarded the Best Application Paper Award of the 3rd IFAC International Conference on Intelligent Control and Automation Science (IFAC ICONS 2013), and the 2017 Hsue-shen Tsien Paper Award.
