John T. Y. Wen

John T. Y. Wen received his B.Eng. degree from McGill University in 1979, an M.S. degree from University of Illinois in 1981, and a Ph.D. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1985, all in electrical engineering. From 1981 to 1982, he was a systems engineer at Fisher Controls, where he developed a plant-wide coordination control system for pulp and paper plants. Between 1985 and 1988, he was a Member of technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he developed new modeling and control algorithms for large space structures and space robots. Since 1988, he has been with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering with a joint appointment at the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering. He is also the Director of Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS), an interdisciplinary research center focusing on industrially driven research. He was an ASEE/NASA Summer Faculty Fellow in 1993, a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Senior Visiting Scientist in 1997, and an Oversea Assessor for the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2004 to 2009. Dr. Wen's research interest is in the modeling, design, and control of complex dynamical systems with applications to vibration suppression, thermal management, active flow control, multirobot control, and network flow control. Dr. Wen is a Fellow of IEEE.

Biography Updated on 4 January 2010

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