Staff Members

Group Leader

Professor Jie Bao

Prof. Jie Bao

Professor Jie Bao is an expert in dissipativity/passivity based process control. He has been awarded more than $5.5M (excluding ARC LIEF projects)  competitive research grants including 9 ARC DP/large grants, 1 CSIRO National Flagship Research Cluster Project and a number of major industrial projects. He published extensively in major process control and chemical engineering journals. He is an Associate Editor of Journal of Process Control (an International Federation of Automatic Control affiliated journal).

School of Chemical Engineering
The University of New South Wales
UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052
Australia

Telephone: +61 (2) 9385 6755
Facsimile: +61 (2) 9385 5966
Email: J.Bao@unsw.edu.au

 

 

Researchers

 

Dr. Ryan McCloy

Research Associate

Ryan McCloy

Ryan McCloy received his B.E. (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Newcastle (UoN), Newcastle, Australia in 2013. He completed his PhD in 2018 at UoN on the fault tolerant control of constrained linear parameter varying systems. Ryan is currently a postdoctoral research fellow with the School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, Australia. His current focus lies in the development of approaches to flexible plantwide control using dissipativity theory.

Level 3
Science and Engineering Building (SEB)
UNSW

Email: r.mccloy@unsw.edu.au

Dr. Yitao Yan

Research Associate

Yitao Yan received his B.E. (Hons) in Chemical Engineering from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2015. He completed his PhD in 2019 at UNSW on the behavioural approach to distributed control of large-scale interconnected systems. His research interests include behavioural systems theory, dissipativity theory and contraction theory, as well as their applications to distributed control. His current focus is on the development of a big-data-driven distributed control framework for plantwide systems using behavioural systems theory and machine learning techniques.

Level 3
Science and Engineering Building (SEB)
UNSW

Email: y.yan@unsw.edu.au

 

 Dr. Yuchen Yao

Research Associate

Yuchen Yao

Yuchen Yao obtained a B.E. in Chemical Engineering with first class Honours in 2012 from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. He received his PhD in 2017 in the area of advanced control and monitoring of aluminium smelters from the same university.

Dr. Yao’s research interests include data analysis, process modelling, monitoring, control, fault detection and diagnosis. He has experiences in a range of industrial processes, which include aluminium smelting, mining and wastewater treatment. His current focus is to develop advanced control schemes for aluminium smelters using individual anode current signals.

Dr. Yao has published more than 25 papers in international journals and conferences. He also holds two international patents.

Level 3
Science and Engineering Building (SEB)
UNSW

Email: yuchen.yao@unsw.edu.au