1.Brief Profile

Derui DING received both the B.Sc. degree in Industry Engineering in 2004 and the M.Sc. degree in Detection Technology and Automation Equipment in 2007 from Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu, China, and the Ph.D. degree in Control Theory and Control Engineering in 2014 from Donghua University, Shanghai, China.

He is currently a professor in the Department of Control Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China. From July 2007 to December 2014, he was a teaching assistant and then a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu, China; From June 2012 to September 2012, he was a research assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; From March 2013 to March 2014, he was a visiting scholar in the Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University London, UK; From January 2015 to June 2019, he was an associate professor in the Department of Control Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China; From June 2015 to August 2015, he was a research assistant in the Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

He is a Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering (2019) according to Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters). As of 5 November 2019, his research work has attracted 2488 citations with h-index of 28 according to Clarivate Analytics and, as of 20 December 2019, attracted 3383 citations with h-index of 31 according to Google Scholar. As a principal investigator, he has been conducting or completed three projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

He is a Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He is serving as an Associate Editor for Neurocomputing and IET Control Theory and Applications. He has served as Local Co-chair of the 2018 Australian and New Zealand Control Conference (ANZCC2018), Tracking Co-chair of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (IEEE-ICIT), and Invited session organizers for the 33rd Chinese Control Conference as well as the 11th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, 2014, China.

2. Research Area

He has been conducting research in the field of Control Theory and Control Engineering and his research interests include control, filtering and optimization of distributed systems, as well as multi-agent systems and sensor networks.

3. Contact Information

Email address: deruiding2010@usst.edu.cn