Auteur: Panagiotis D. Christofides

Dr. Liu received the BS and MS degrees in Control Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He received the Ph D degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2011. Before joining the University of Alberta in April, 2012, Dr. Liu was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests are in the general areas of process control theory and practice with emphasis on model predictive control, networked and distributed control, process monitoring, and real-time control of chemical processes and energy generation systems. Professor Panagiotis Christofides obtained his Ph D from the University of Minnesota in 1996 and he has been a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles since 2004. He is a fellow of various professional societies:  the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Federation of Automatic Control and the IEEE.He is the author of numerous research papers, as well as two previous books published by Springer and has much experience of conference organization having served on various boards at various times, among them as the AICh E Director on the American Automatic Control Council.