Sex:	Male
Birth Date:	Nov. 7, 1947
Birth Place:	Lanzhou City, Gansu Province
Research Field:	Industrial Automation

Background Information

Chai Tianyou graduated from the Northeastern University in 1983, received Ph. D. degree in 1985, became Professor of Northeastern University, Liaoning Province, in 1988 and was appointed Tutor of Doctorial Students in 1990. He was elected Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2003. He was member of IFAC Technical Board and chairman of IFAC Coordinating Committee on Manufacturing and Instrumentation during 1996-1999. Currently, he is the member of Chinese National Disciplinary Appraisal Group, vice-director of the Committee of Experts of Advanced Manufacturing and Automation in National High-tech Program, director of the National Engineering and Technology Research Center of Metallurgical Industry Automation at Northeastern University.

Research Areas and Achievements

Prof. Chai's research interests include adaptive control, decoupling control, optimizing control and integrated automation of complex industrial processes. He has made innovative research achievements in these fields. He has been principal investigator for more than 30 research projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese National High-tech Program, Chinese National Key Technology Program, National High-tech Industrialization Priority Project and Key Automation Engineering of Enterprises. He has supervised nine postdoctoral fellows, more than fifty PhD. students and one hundred master students. He is author or co-author of 2 books, over 200 journal papers, and over 100 conference papers.

Honours and Awards

He has twice received the Second-Grade National Award for Progress in Science and Technology, and 10 Top-Grade and First-Grade Awards for Progress in Science and Technology from various  Ministries of China and Liaoning Province. For his significant contributions to Chinese automatic control technology and industrial automation, he won 2002 Technological Science Progress Award from Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation (one of the most prestigious scientific awards in China) and 2003 Science and Technology Honor Prize of Liaoning Province (the most prestigious scientific award in Liaoning Province, which is only conferred to two persons every 2 years).