2007年6月28日上午，Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic University (Brooklyn)姜钟平教授应邀来访并作了题为"Simultaneous Stabilization and Tracking of Underactuated Mechanical Systems"的学术报告。姜教授的报告主要介绍了非线性控制理论在欠驱动力学系统中的应用和推广，考察了移动机器人的同步镇定和跟踪问题。北大工学院以及北航等30多位师生参加了报告会。

Biography of the Speaker

Dr. Jiang received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University
of Wuhan, Wuhan, China, in 1988, the M.Sc. degree in statistics from the University of Paris (Orsay), Paris, France, in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree in automatic control and mathematics from the Ecole des Mines de Paris, Paris, France, in 1993. From 1993 to 1998, he held visiting researcher positions with several institutions. In January 1999, he joined the Polytechnic University at Brooklyn as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, where he is promoted to Full Professor in 2007. His main research interests include stability theory, nonlinear control theory and their applications to mechanical and information systems. He is author of five book chapters, 85 journal papers and numerous conference papers. More detailed information can be found in the website http://ctrl.poly.edu/.

Dr. Jiang is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the ARC Queen Elizabeth
II and Japan JSPS Invitation Fellowships. Currently, he is an Editor for the
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, and an Associate Editor
for Systems & Control Letters and European Journal of Control. He served as an
Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2003-2005) and
the IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board (2000-2002).