AWARDS & HONORS

Prof. Ling SHI obtained his B.E. from EEE (now ECE), HKUST, in 2002 and Ph.D. from CDS, Caltech, in 2008. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, and the associate director of the Robotics Institute, both at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include cyber-physical systems security, networked control systems, sensor scheduling, event-based state estimation, and multi-agent robotic systems (UAVs and UGVs). He served as an editorial board member for the European Control Conference 2013-2016. He was a subject editor for International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control (2015-2017), an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (2016-2020), an associate editor for IEEE Control Systems Letters (2017-2020), and an associate editor for a special issue on Secure Control of Cyber Physical Systems in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (2015-2017). He also served as the General Chair of the 23rd International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2018). He is a member of the Young Scientists Class 2020 of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and he is a fellow of IEEE (Class 2023).
Google Scholar Citation: 9200; h-index: 50; i10-index: 141

Prof. Shaojie SHEN is recognized as the 2022 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention for his contributions to the field of Robotics between 2012 and 2021 (ranked 25th). Prof. SHEN has received the same award for three years in a row.

Prof. SHEN is the founding director of the HKUST-DJI Joint Innovation Laboratory (HDJI Lab). His research interests are in the areas of robotics and unmanned aerial vehicles, with focus on state estimation, sensor fusion, localization and mapping, and autonomous navigation in complex environments. Prof. SHEN is currently serving as associate editors for T-RO and AURO.