I received my B.S. (Honors) in Electronics (5/88) from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and M.S. (12/89) and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering (5/93) from the University of Texas at Arlington.

My research career started in the summer of 1987 when I worked on the problem of population control which is a very urgent problem in China. My supervisor and I derived a frequency domain model and came up with a critical stability criterion for population systems. The results were published as two conference papers in the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

My masters thesis is concerned with the robust control of robotic manipulators using sliding mode control. One of the research results was published in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

My Ph. D. research concentrated on both theory (sliding mode and adaptive control) and applications (robots, motors, and accelerator systems). From April 1991 to February 1994 (during and after my Ph. D. studies), I worked at SSC (Superconducting Super Collider Lab), where I was heavily involved in the modeling, simulation, and design of modern digital controllers and signal processing algorithms for the beam control system. I received an invention award for my work at SSC. The research results of my colleagues and I were published as 3 journal papers and 4 conference papers in leading accelerator physics journals and conference proceedings.

After the demise of SSC, I joined Automation and Robotics Research Institute in Fort Worth for seventeen months. Prof. Frank Lewis and I applied adaptive and neural network techniques to the control of power systems, robots, and motors. At the same time, I also published a few technical papers on sliding mode control using output feedback.

Since joining IAI in July 1995, I have been involved in more than 10 different projects: modeling and control of advanced machine tools, digital control of high precision electron microscope, enhancement of microscope images, adaptive antenna arrays, automatic target recognition of FLIR and SAR images, fast flow control in communication networks, vibration management of gun pointing system, health monitoring of flight critical systems, high speed piezoelectric actuator control, fault tolerant missile control, image processing of infrared images, active speech enhancement, and underwater vehicle control.

I am a member of IEEE (robotics and automation, communications, and controls societies) and Tau Beta Pi. The past 10 years' research results with my numerous collaborators have been published in the form of 20 journal papers and more than 35 additional referred papers in various major conference proceedings.

My wife, Jessica, and I have two children: Jacqueline and Martin. During our leisure time, we like to watch movies and play table tennis.