Prof. Li Qiu is currently Chair Professor in the School of System Design and Intelligent Manufacturing, at the Southern University of Science and Technology.

He was born in the the city of Changsha (the capital of Hunan province) in  People’s Republic of China. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Hunan University in 1981 and his Masters and PhD degrees were completed in the University of Toronto in 1987 and 1990, respectively.

Since 1990, Dr. Li Qiu has held research and teaching positions at the University of Toronto, the Canadian Space Agency, the University of Waterloo, the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, and the University of Minnesota. He joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1993 and has also held visiting positions at Zhejiang University, Australian Defense Force Academy, and Harbin Institute of Technology.

Dr. Li Qiu is a fellow of IEEE and a fellow of IFAC. He was a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors in 2012. He served as a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society from 2007 to 2009 and the general chair of the 7th Asian Control Conference which was held in Hong Kong in August 2009. He has served as an associate editor of the publications IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Automatica. He is now a member of the editorial board of International Journal of Control.

Education Background

Ph.D., electrical engineering, University of Toronto, Nov. 1990.

M.A.Sc., electrical engineering, University of Toronto, Mar. 1987.

B.Eng., electrical engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China, Dec. 1981.

Working Experience

1. Chair Professor, Southern University of Technology, since Dec 2022.

2. Professor (since July 2006), Associate Professor (July 1999-June 2006), Assistant Professor (September

1993-June 1999), Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University

of Science and Technology.

Research Area

1. Systems, control, and information theory (Phase Theory, Majorisation, and etc.).

2. Mathematics in information sciences.

3. Control application in energy and motion systems.

4. Control education.

Publications

1. "Computation of the phase and gain margins of MIMO control systems",  Automatica, vol. 143, article 110846, pp. 1-13, Mar 2023.

2. "Argument principle and integral relations: hidden links and generalized forms", IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 1831-1838, Mar 2023.

3. "Phases of discrete-time LTI multivariable systems", Automatica, vol. 142, article 110311, pp. 1-12, Aug 2022.

4. "Low phase-rank approximation", Linear Algebra and its Applications, vol. 639, pp. 177-204, Apr 2022.

5. "System monotonicity and identification: a geometric perspective

of the Frisch-Shapiro scheme", IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. 67, no. 11, pp.5872-5884, Nov 2022.

6. "A structure-tensor approach to integer matrix completion in indivisible resource allocation", IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. 67, no. 9, pp. 4541-4554, Sept 2022.

7. "A distributed economic dispatch strategy for power-water networks", IEEE Trans. on Control of Network Systems, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 356-366, Mar 2022.

8. "Finsler geometries on strictly accretive matrices", Linear and Multilinear

Algebra, vol. 70, no. 21, pp. 6753-6771, 2022.

9. "Parallel feedforward compensation for output synchronization: fully

distributed control and indenite Laplacian" Systems & Control Letters, vol. 164, article 105250, pp. 1-8, Jun 2022.

10. "Less conservative robust control method for a class of non-passive uncertain systems", International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 682-697, Jan 2022.

11. "New phase of phase", Journal on System Science and Complexity, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 1821-1839, Oct 2021.

Academic Honors

Plenary Speaker, the 42nd Chinese Control Conference, Tianjin, China, delivered a presentation on “The renaissance of phase", July 2023.

Fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS), 2016.

IEEE Control Systems Society Award for Outstanding Service to the Society, 2012.

Semi-Plenary Speaker, the 23rd Chinese Conference on Decision and Control, Mianyang, Sichuan, China, May 2011.

Asian Control Association Award for Distinguished Contributions, 2011.

Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), “for outstanding and seminal contributions to robust control theory and to fundamental performance limitations in feedback control systems", since 2010.

Semi-Plenary Speaker, the 19th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Budapest, Hungary, July 2010.

Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2007-2010.

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), \for contributions to robust and optimal control of multirate and periodic systems", since 2007.

Distinguished Lecturer, Automation and Robotics Research Institute, University of Texas at Arlington, delivered a lecture on “Pre-classical tools for post-modern control", June 2005.

Best Theoretical Paper Award of the 5th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation for the paper “Performance limitation in random sinusoidal signal estimation", co-authored with W. Su and W. X. Zheng, June 2004.

Plenary Speaker, the 21st Chinese Control Conference, Hangzhou, China, delivered a presentation on “Pre-classical tools for post-modern control", Aug. 2002.

University Lead Award, Computer and Automated Systems Association of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2001.

Outstanding Young Author Award, IEEE Control Systems Society Beijing Chapter, for the paper“Model validation of multirate systems from time-domain experimental data", co-authored by L. Chai and L. Qiu, presented in the 3rd World Congress of Intelligent Control and Automation, 2000.