Professor
Ben M. Chen is currently a Professor of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Before joining CUHK in 2018, he was a Provost’s Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is an IEEE Fellow and a Fellow of Academy of Engineering, Singapore. He is also a Part-time Professor at Tongji University. His research interests are in unmanned systems and their applications.
Professor
Jie Chen is currently a Professor and the Secretary of the CPC Committee of Harbin Institute of Technology. He is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Fellow, an IFAC Fellow, and an ACA Fellow. He serves as the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Autonomous Intelligent Systems, the Frontiers Science Center under the Ministry of Education, and the Shanghai Science Center for Autonomous Intelligent Systems. His research interests include control science and engineering, multi-objective optimization and control of complex systems, and multi-agent cooperative control. He previously served as the Vice President of Beijing Institute of Technology, the President of Tongji University, and the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education of the PRC.
Professor
Bin He is currently a Professor in the College of Electronic and Information Engineering, the Executive Director of the Shanghai Science Center for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, and the Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Autonomous Intelligent Systems at Tongji University. He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and enjoys the Special Government Allowance of the State Council. His research interests include intelligent robotics, intelligent perception, digital twins, and physical AI. He has published over 100 papers in reputable international journals and received the National Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) as the primary investigator.
Assistant Professor
Yulong Ding is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Control Science and Engineering and Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems at Tongji University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Automation from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2020. His doctoral dissertation received the Wu Wenjun AI Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. His research interests include human-machine collaboration and air-ground collaborative task planning for unmanned systems.
Assistant Professor
Yu Herng Tan is an Assistant Professor at the Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Tongji University. She received her M.Eng. in Aerospace Engineering from Imperial College London (2016) and her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore (2020) under the supervision of Prof. Ben M. Chen. She completed her postdoctoral research at Tsinghua University (2022-2025). Her research interests include cross-medium unmanned vehicles and intelligent UAV systems.
Associate Professor
Biao Wang is an Associate Professor in the College of Automation Engineering at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA). He received his Ph.D. degree in Navigation, Guidance, and Control from NUAA in 2004. He has been a visiting scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2001) and National University of Singapore (2009-2012). His research interests include unmanned aerial vehicle systems, flight control, and computer vision.
Professor
Lihua Dou is a Professor and Ph.D. Advisor. She is a discipline leader in intelligent control and intelligent systems, and serves as the Director of a Beijing Key Laboratory. She is also a Part-time Professor at Tongji University. Her research interests include nonlinear control, image processing and target recognition in complex backgrounds, network control and security, command and control, and expert systems.
Ph.D. Candidate
Interests: Hybrid aerial-aquatic vehicles, autonomous control
2023.09 - Present, Ph.D. Candidate in Intelligent Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
2020.09 - 2023.06, M.Eng. in Control Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China
2015.09 - 2019.06, B.Eng. in Automation, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing, China
Ph.D. Candidate
Interests: Underwater localization and mapping, sensor fusion, and autonomous aerial-aquatic vehicles
2024.09 - Present, Ph.D. Candidate in Intelligent Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
2020.09 - 2024.06, B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Ph.D. Candidate
Interests: Cross-domain unmanned systems, hybrid aerial-aquatic vehicles, modelling and control
2024.09 - Present, Ph.D. Candidate in Intelligent Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
2020.09 - 2024.06, B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Ph.D. Candidate
Interests: Cross-domain unmanned systems, mission planning, and motion planning
2024.09 - Present, Ph.D. Candidate in Intelligent Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
2020.09 - 2024.06, B.Eng. in Automation, Northeastern University, Qinhuangdao, China
Ph.D. Student
Interests: Hybrid aerial-aquatic vehicles, autonomous control and embodied intelligence
2025.09 - Present, Ph.D. Student in Intelligent Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
2021.09 - 2025.06, B.Eng. in Automation, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China
Ph.D. Student
Interests: UAV embodied intelligence, motion planning, and control
2025.09 - Present, Ph.D. Student in Intelligent Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
(Jointly trained with Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai, China. Co-advised by Prof. Kairui Feng)
2021.09 - 2025.06, B.Eng. in Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China
M.Eng. Student
Interests: Design and Implementation of Simulation System for Hybrid Aerial-Aquatic Cross-Medium Vehicles
2024.09 - Present, M.Eng. Student in Electronic Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
2019.09 - 2023.06, B.Eng. in Automation, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai, China
M.Eng. Student
Interests: Computer Vision, Vision Foundation Models, Intelligent Robotics
2026.09 - Present, M.Eng. Student in Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
2020.09 - 2024.06, B.Eng. in Automation, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
We are looking for new PhD students, Postdocs, and Master students to join the team (see OPENINGS) !
