Dr. Huazhen Fang

Huazhen Fang is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kansas, where he joined in 2014 and has led the Information & Smart Systems Laboratory. He received his Ph.D., M.Sc., and B.Eng. from the University of California, San Diego (Mechanical Engineering, 2014), University of Saskatchewan, Canada (Mechanical Engineering, 2009), and Northwestern Polytechnic University, China (Computer Science, 2006), respectively. His research interests lie in modeling, control and estimation theory with application to energy management and cooperative robotics. He has received the 2019 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Award. He currently serve as an Associate Editor for Information Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society, and on the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board.