Minyue Fu is an esteemed academic, holding Fellowships from IEEE, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control), IEAust (Institution of Engineers Australia), and CAC (Chinese Association of Automation). Currently, he serves as a Distinguished Professor at the School of System Design and Intelligent Manufacturing at the Southern University of Science and Technology. In 1982, he graduated from the Department of Automation at the University of Science and Technology of China, where he received the inaugural Guo Moruo Award. He went on to complete his Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1984 and 1987, respectively. Minyue Fu began his academic career as an Assistant Professor at Wayne State University in the United States from 1987 to 1989.

Afterward, he joined the University of Newcastle in Australia, initially as a Lecturer in 1989 and later advancing to positions of Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, and finally Professor in 2002. During his tenure at the University of Newcastle, he held the position of Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science for a total of seven years from 1998 to 2013. Additionally, he served as the Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Complex Systems and Control from 2003 to 2011.

Minyue Fu has had an extensive international academic presence, having held visiting professor positions at several renowned institutions, including the University of Tokyo, the University of Iowa, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and Shandong University in China, among others. He has been involved in numerous high-profile academic initiatives, including the "100 Talents Program" at Zhejiang University, South China University of Technology, and Guangdong University.

His research work is widely recognized, with over 500 published papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has an H-index of 57, and his work has been cited over 15,000 times. Minyue Fu has led more than 20 research projects funded by the Australian National Natural Science Foundation, two key projects of the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation, and one foreign expert project.

Education Background

1978.03—1982.06    Bachelor's degree in Control Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China.

1982.09—1983.06    Master's degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Control from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

1983.09—1987.10   Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Control from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Working Experience

1987.10—1989.05    Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Wayne State University, USA.

1989.05—1989.08    Invited Lecturer at the Control Systems Research Center, New University of Louvain, Belgium.

1989.08—2022.12    Various roles at the School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia, including Lecturer (1989-1991), Senior Lecturer (1992-1995), Associate Professor (1995-2001), Professor (2002-), Distinguished Professor (2010-2022), and Dean (1998-2013, a total of 7 years).

1995.07—1996.06    Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Iowa, USA.

2002.01—2002.12    Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

2003.01—2011.12    Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Complex Systems and Control.

2004.03—2004.04    Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan.

2008.01—2011.12    Changjiang Distinguished Professor at Shandong University, China.

2021.01—2023.02   Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology.

2023.02—Now   Distinguished Professor in the School of System Design and Intelligent Manufacturing at the Southern University of Science and Technology.

Research Area

Networked systems, distributed systems, multi-agent intelligent systems, machine learning, adaptive control, robust control, optimal control, signal estimation, and filtering.

Publications

Published over 500 papers, cited more than 13,000 times, with an H-index of 57. Ten representative papers are as follows.

1.Adaptive Stabilization of Linear Systems Via Switching Control, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 31, no. 12, pp. 1097-1103, 1986.

2. The sector bound approach to quantized feedback control', IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 50, no. 11, pp. 1698-1711, 2005.

3.Robust Stability for Time-Delay Systems: The Edge Theorem and Graphical Tests, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 813-820, 1989.

4.Linear matrix inequality approach to robust H-infinity filtering, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 45, no. 9, pp. 2338-2350, 1997.

5.Distributed consensus with limited communication data rate, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 279-292, 2011.

6.Distributed formation control of multi-agent systems using complex Laplacian, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 59, no. 7, pp. 1765-1777, 2014.

7. State estimation for linear discrete-time systems using quantized measurements, Automatica, vol. 45, no. 12, pp. 2937-2945, 2009.

8.Lack of separation principle for quantized linear quadratic Gaussian control, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 2385-2390, 2007.

9.Finite-horizon Robust Kalman filter design, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 49, no. 9, pp. 2103-2112, 2001.

10.Stochastic analysis of turbo decoding, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 81-100, 2005.

Awards

Elected as a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) in 2022.

Elected as a Fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation in 2018.

Elected as a Fellow of Engineers Australia in 2018.

Received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA) in 2017.

Received the Best Paper Award at the Asian Control Conference in 2009.

Elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2004.

Received the Outstanding Teacher Award from Wayne State University's College of Engineering in 1989.

Received the Guo Moruo Award at the University of Science and Technology of China in 1981.

Other

Unmanned Systems, Associate Editor, 2020-

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Associate Editor, 1993-1997

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Associate Editor, 2011-2014

Automatica, Associate Editor, 2004-2007

Optimization and Engineering, Area Editor, 1998-2006

Conference Editorial Board, IEEE Control Systems Society, 1993-1997

Fellow Evaluator (Control Division) for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-2015

Program Chair of the Chinese Control Conference, 2019

Chair of the IFAC Robust Control Conference, 2018

Chair of the Australian Control Conference, 2016

Evaluator for the Italian Research and University Evaluation Agency, 2011-2012

Member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Time Delay Systems, 2010-

Member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Robust Control, 2010-

Member of the Control Theory Professional Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation, 2010-

Member of the Process Control Professional Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation, 2010-