James Lam
James Lam received a first class B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Manchester and was awarded the Ashbury Scholarship, the A.H. Gibson Prize, and the H. Wright Baker Prize for his academic performance. From the University of Cambridge, he obtained the M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in control engineering. He is a Scholar and Fellow of the Croucher Foundation. Dr. Lam is now a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Hong Kong. Prior to that, he held faculty positions at now the City University of Hong Kong and the University of Melbourne. Professor Lam is a Chartered Mathematician and Chartered Scientist, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Member of the IEE. He is holding a guest professorships at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, South China University of Technology, Shandong University and Central South University. On the professional service side, apart from serving on the editorial board of Research Letters in Signal Processing, Professor Lam is an Associate Editor of the Asian Journal of Control, the International Journal of Systems Science, the Journal of Sound and Vibration, the International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, the Journal of the Franklin Institute, the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society, an editorial member of the IET Control Theory and Applications and the Open Electrical and Electronic Engineering Journal. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of IEE Proceedings: Control Theory and Applications and the IFAC Technical Committee on Control Design. His research interests include reduced-order modelling, delay systems, descriptor systems, stochastic systems, multidimensional systems, robust control and filtering.
Biography Updated on 24 July 2007
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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]
- Stabilization of linear systems over networks with bounded packet loss
Automatica, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 80–87, 2007 - Filtering for a class of nonlinear discrete-time stochastic systems with state delays
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, vol. 201, no. 1, pp. 153–163, 2007 - Discrete bilinear stochastic systems with time-varying delay: Stability analysis and control synthesis
Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 394–404, 2007 - H∞ filtering of discrete-time fuzzy systems via basis-dependent Lyapunov function approach
Fuzzy Sets and Systems, vol. 158, no. 2, pp. 180–193, 2007 - Robust stability of uncertain discrete-time singular fuzzy systems?
Fuzzy Sets and Systems, vol. 158, no. 20, pp. 2306–2316, 2007 - Constrained H2 approximation of multiple input–output delay systems using genetic algorithm
ISA Transactions, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 211–221, 2007 - Stability analysis for continuous systems with two additive time-varying delay components
Systems & Control Letters, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 16–24, 2007 - Reduced-order H∞ filtering for singular systems
Systems & Control Letters, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 48–57, 2007 - Corrigendum to “Stability analysis for continuous systems with two additive time-varying delay components”[Systems Control Lett. 56 (2007) 16–24]
Systems & Control Letters, vol. 56, no. 9-10, pp. 662–662, 2007 -
Robust [image omitted] control of descriptor discrete-time Markovian jump systems
International Journal of Control, vol. 80, no. 3, pp. 374–385, 2007 -
Dynamic output feedback H8 control of discrete-time fuzzy systems: a fuzzy-basis-dependent Lyapunov function approach
International Journal of Systems Science, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 25–37, 2007 - On Equivalence and Efficiency of Certain Stability Criteria for Time-Delay Systems
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 95–101, 2007 - Control Design for Fuzzy Systems Based on Relaxed Nonquadratic Stability and $H_{infty}$ Performance Conditions
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 188–199, 2007 - A new LMI condition for delay-dependent asymptotic stability of delayed Hopfield neural networks
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 230–234, 2006 - Fixed-order robust H/sub /spl infin// filter design for Markovian jump systems with uncertain switching probabilities
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 1421–1430, 2006 - Delay-Dependent ?-Suboptimal H[sub 8] Model Reduction for Neutral Systems With Time-Varying Delays
Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, vol. 128, no. 2, p. 394, 2006 - New Exponential Estimates for Time-Delay Systems
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 1501–1505, 2006 - Controller reduction with error performance: continuous- and discrete-time cases
International Journal of Control, vol. 79, no. 6, pp. 604–616, 2006 - Global point dissipativity of neural networks with mixed time-varying delays
Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, vol. 16, no. 1, p. 013105, 2006 - Multi-objective control of vehicle active suspension systems via load-dependent controllers
Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol. 290, no. 3-5, pp. 654–675, 2006 - A new approach to exponential stability analysis of neural networks with time-varying delays
Neural Networks, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 76–83, 2006 - Global exponential stability of impulsive high-order BAM neural networks with time-varying delays
Neural Networks, vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 1581–1590, 2006 - New criteria for synchronization stability of general complex dynamical networks with coupling delays
Physics Letters A, vol. 360, no. 2, pp. 263–273, 2006 - Robust energy-to-peak filter design for stochastic time-delay systems
Systems & Control Letters, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 101–111, 2006 - Model simplification for switched hybrid systems
Systems & Control Letters, vol. 55, no. 12, pp. 1015–1021, 2006 - Modelling of a magneto-rheological damper by evolving radial basis function networks
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 19, no. 8, pp. 869–881, 2006 - Energy-to-peak performance controller design for building via static output feedback under consideration of actuator saturation
Computers & Structures, vol. 84, no. 31-32, pp. 2277–2290, 2006 - New results on delay-dependent robust H∞ control for systems with time-varying delays
Automatica, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 343–348, 2006 - Stabilization of discrete-time Markovian jump linear systems via time-delayed controllers
Automatica, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 747–753, 2006 - Robust stabilization of Markovian delay systems with delay-dependent exponential estimates
Automatica, vol. 42, no. 11, pp. 2001–2008, 2006 - Delay-dependent exponential stability for a class of neural networks with time delays
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, vol. 183, no. 1, pp. 16–28, 2005 - Robust Positive Real Synthesis for 2D Continuous Systems via State and Output Feedback
Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 183–199, 2005 - Robust integral sliding mode control for uncertain stochastic systems with time-varying delay
Automatica, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 873–880, 2005 - On robust stabilization of Markovian jump systems with uncertain switching probabilities
Automatica, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 897–903, 2005 - Network-based robust H∞ control of systems with uncertainty
Automatica, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 999–1007, 2005 - Robust control for discrete-time fuzzy systems via basis-dependent Lyapunov functions
Information Sciences, vol. 174, no. 3-4, pp. 197–217, 2005 - Non-fragile guaranteed cost control for uncertain descriptor systems with time-varying state and input delays
Optimal Control Applications and Methods, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 85–105, 2005 - H∞ model reduction for uncertain two-dimensional discrete systems
Optimal Control Applications and Methods, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 199–227, 2005 - Further results on delay-dependent robust stability conditions of uncertain neutral systems
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 233–246, 2005 - Mixed H2/H∞ Filtering for Continuous-Time Polytopic Systems: A Parameter-Dependent Approach
Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 689–702, 2005 - Robust H∞ Filtering for Uncertain Discrete Stochastic Systems with Time Delays
Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 753–770, 2005 -
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$${\cal{L}}_{\bf 2}/{\cal{L}}_{\infty}$$
Model Reduction for System Input with Sector Nonlinearities
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, vol. 125, no. 1, pp. 137–155, 2005 - On Stability and Stabilizability of Singular Stochastic Systems with Delays
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, vol. 127, no. 2, pp. 249–262, 2005 - Stability and Stabilization of Uncertain 2-D Discrete Systems with Stochastic Perturbation
Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 85–106, 2005 - H∞ Model Reduction of 2-D Singular Roesser Models
Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 285–304, 2005 - Bounded real lemma and robust control of 2-D singular Roesser models
Systems & Control Letters, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 339–346, 2005 - New characterization of positive realness and control of a class of uncertain polytopic discrete-time systems
Systems & Control Letters, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 417–427, 2005 - Razumikhin method and exponential stability of hybrid stochastic delay interval systems
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 2005 - Semi-active control of vehicle suspension with magneto-rheological dampers
Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol. 283, no. 3-5, pp. 981–996, 2005 - Novel global robust stability criteria for interval neural networks with multiple time-varying delays
Physics Letters A, vol. 342, no. 4, pp. 322–330, 2005 - Observer design and stabilization for linear neutral delay systems
ISA Transactions, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 35–42, 2005 - Simplified descriptor system approach to delay-dependent stability and performance analyses for time-delay systems
IEE Proceedings - Control Theory and Applications, vol. 152, no. 2, p. 147, 2005 - IEE Proceedings Control Theory & Applications, vol. 152, no. 6, pp. 662–674, 2005
- Delay-dependent and delay-independent energy-to-peak model approximation for systems with time-varying delay
International Journal of Systems Science, vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 445–460, 2005 - Further results on local stability of REM algorithm with time-varying delays
IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 402–404, 2005 - Stochastic stability analysis of fuzzy hopfield neural networks with time-varying delays
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 251–255, 2005 - Novel global asymptotic stability criteria for delayed cellular neural networks
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 349–353, 2005 - Control for stability and positivity: Equivalent conditions and computation
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 52, no. 9, pp. 540–544, 2005 - Improved delay-dependent stability criteria for time-delay systems
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 384–387, 2005 - Convergence of discrete-time recurrent neural networks with variable delay
International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos [in Applied Sciences and Engineering], vol. 15, no. 2, p. 581, 2005 - Delay-dependent approach to stabilization of time-delay Chaotic systems via standard and delayed feedback controllers
International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos [in Applied Sciences and Engineering], vol. 15, no. 4, p. 1455, 2005 - Design of non-fragile H controller for active vehicle suspensions
Journal of Vibration and Control, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 225–243, 2005 - Adaptive H[sub ∞] control using backstepping design and neural networks
Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, vol. 127, no. 3, p. 478, 2005 - Improved global robust asymptotic stability criteria for delayed cellular neural networks
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B (Cybernetics), vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 1317–1321, 2005 - Robust H/sub /spl infin// control for uncertain discrete-time-delay fuzzy systems via output feedback controllers
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 82–93, 2005 - Exponential /spl epsiv/-regulation for multi-input nonlinear systems using neural networks
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1710–1714, 2005 - Robust H/sub /spl infin// filtering for Uncertain 2-D continuous systems
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 1731–1738, 2005 - New approach to mixed H/sub 2//H/sub /spl infin// filtering for polytopic discrete-time systems
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 53, no. 8, pp. 3183–3192, 2005 - A delay-dependent approach to robust H/sub /spl infin// filtering for uncertain distributed delay systems
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 53, no. 10, pp. 3764–3772, 2005 - Induced l/sub 2/ and generalized H/sub 2/ filtering for systems with repeated scalar nonlinearities
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 53, no. 11, pp. 4215–4226, 2005 - H∞ disturbance attenuation for uncertain mechanical systems with input delay
Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 37–52, 2005 - New observer-based guaranteed cost control for neutral delay systems
Proceedings of the I MECH E Part I Journal of Systems & Control Engineering, vol. 218, no. 3, pp. 227–235, 2004 - Positive real control for uncertain singular time-delay systems via output feedback controllers
European Journal of Control, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 293–302, 2004 - Robust
European Journal of Control, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 365–380, 2004 - Robust stability and stabilization of discrete singular systems: An equivalent characterization
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 568–574, 2004 - New positive realness conditions for uncertain discrete descriptor systems: Analysis and synthesis
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 1897–1905, 2004 - Exponential filtering for uncertain Markovian jump time-delay systems with nonlinear disturbances
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 262–268, 2004 - Robust filtering for discrete-time Markovian jump delay systems
IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 659–662, 2004 - Observer-based sliding mode control for nonlinear state-delayed systems
International Journal of Systems Science, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 139–150, 2004 - Reliable observer-based H ∞ control of uncertain state-delayed systems
International Journal of Systems Science, vol. 35, no. 12, pp. 707–718, 2004 - Stabilization and H control of two-dimensional Markovian jump systems
IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 377–392, 2004 - Sliding-mode control for uncertain neutral delay systems
IEE Proceedings - Control Theory and Applications, vol. 151, no. 1, p. 38, 2004 - Delay-dependent output-feedback stabilisation of discrete-time systems with time-varying state delay
IEE Proceedings - Control Theory and Applications, vol. 151, no. 6, p. 691, 2004 - Stabilising controller design for uncertain systems with time-varying input delay
IEE Proceedings - Control Theory and Applications, vol. 151, no. 6, p. 699, 2004 - Unified gradient approach to performance optimization under a pole assignment constraint
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, vol. 121, no. 2, pp. 361–383, 2004 - Robust H8 Filtering for a Class of Nonlinear Discrete-Time Markovian Jump Systems
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, vol. 122, no. 3, pp. 651–668, 2004 - Suboptimal robust mixed H2/H∞ controller design for uncertain descriptor systems with distributed delays
Computers & Mathematics with Applications, vol. 47, no. 6-7, pp. 1041–1055, 2004 - model reduction for discrete time-delay systems: delay-independent and dependent approaches
International Journal of Control, vol. 77, no. 4, pp. 321–335, 2004 - Hankel norm approximation of linear systems with time-varying delay: continuous and discrete cases
International Journal of Control, vol. 77, no. 17, pp. 1503–1520, 2004 - Non-fragile H∞ vibration control for uncertain structural systems
Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol. 273, no. 4-5, pp. 1031–1045, 2004 - Exponential stability of high-order bidirectional associative memory neural networks with time delays
Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, vol. 199, no. 3-4, pp. 425–436, 2004 - Global robust exponential stability analysis for interval recurrent neural networks
Physics Letters A, vol. 325, no. 2, pp. 124–133, 2004 - Robust H8 control for uncertain discrete stochastic time-delay systems
Systems & Control Letters, vol. 51, no. 3-4, pp. 203–215, 2004 - Robust stability and stabilisation of 2D discrete state-delayed systems
Systems & Control Letters, vol. 51, no. 3-4, pp. 277–291, 2004 - Non-fragile positive real control for uncertain linear neutral delay systems
Systems & Control Letters, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 59–74, 2004 - Robust output feedback stabilization for two-dimensional continuous systems in roesser form
Applied Mathematics Letters, vol. 17, no. 12, pp. 1331–1341, 2004 - Robust eigenstructure assignment with minimum subspace separation
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 14, no. 15, pp. 1227–1253, 2004 - Exponential H∞ filter design for uncertain Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy systems with time delay
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 645–659, 2004 - On H 8 filtering for a class of uncertain nonlinear neutral systems
Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 215–230, 2004 - Non-fragile output feedback H8 vehicle suspension control using genetic algorithm
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 16, no. 7-8, pp. 667–680, 2003 - Robust stabilization of delayed singular systems with linear fractional parametric uncertainties
Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 579–588, 2003 - LMI based stability analysis and robust controller design for discrete linear repetitive processes
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 13, no. 13, pp. 1195–1211, 2003 - Robust $H_{infty}$ control for uncertain singular systems with state delay
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 13, no. 13, pp. 1213–1223, 2003 - Reliable memory feedback design for a class of non-linear time-delay systems
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 39–60, 2003 - Delay-dependent stochastic stability and H8 analysis for time-delay systems with Markovian jumping parameters
Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 340, no. 6-7, pp. 423–434, 2003 - H8 model reduction for discrete-time singular systems
Systems & Control Letters, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 121–133, 2003 - H8 model reduction of Markovian jump linear systems
Systems & Control Letters, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 103–118, 2003 - An LMI approach to design robust fault detection filter for uncertain LTI systems
Automatica, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 543–550, 2003 - On gramians and balanced truncation of discrete-time bilinear systems
International Journal of Control, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 414–427, 2003 - Positive real control of two-dimensional systems: Roesser models and linear repetitive processes
International Journal of Control, vol. 76, no. 11, pp. 1047–1058, 2003 - Robust observer design for non-linear interconnected systems using structural characteristics
International Journal of Control, vol. 76, no. 7, pp. 741–746, 2003 - Sliding-mode control for nonlinear state-delayed systems using neural-network approximation
IEE Proceedings - Control Theory and Applications, vol. 150, no. 3, p. 233, 2003 - Reliable H8 control of uncertain descriptor systems with multiple time delays
IEE Proceedings - Control Theory and Applications, vol. 150, no. 6, p. 557, 2003 - H8 model reduction for singular systems: continuous-time case
IEE Proceedings - Control Theory and Applications, vol. 150, no. 6, p. 637, 2003 - Robust stability analysis and stabilization for uncertain linear neutral delay systems
International Journal of Systems Science, vol. 33, no. 15, pp. 1195–1206, 2003 - LMI synthesis of H/sub 2/ and mixed H/sub 2//H/sub /spl infin// controllers for singular systems
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 50, no. 9, pp. 615–626, 2003 - Stability and control of differential linear repetitive processes using an LMI setting
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 50, no. 9, pp. 662–666, 2003 - Robust H8 filtering for uncertain markovian jump systems with mode-dependent time delays
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 48, no. 5, pp. 900–907, 2003 - H/sub 8/ Filtering for singular systems
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 48, no. 12, pp. 2217–2222, 2003 - A linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach to robust H/sub 2/ sampled-data control for linear uncertain systems
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B (Cybernetics), vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 149–155, 2003 - Nonlinear filtering for state delayed systems with markovian switching
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 2321–2328, 2003 - LMIs - a fundamental tool in analysis and controller design for discrete linear repetitive processes
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, vol. 49, no. 6, pp. 768–778, 2002 - Positive real control for uncertain two-dimensional systems
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, vol. 49, no. 11, pp. 1659–1666, 2002 - Local stability of limit cycles for time-delay relay-feedback systems
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