Dong Jia

5000 Forbes Ave.

2212 Hamburg Hall, ICES

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Phone: 412-268-2257

Fax: 412-268-5229

Email: djia@andrew.cmu.edu

Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University

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EDUCATION

Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer engineering December, 2002

Xi’an Jiaotong University Xi’an, Shaanxi, P.R.China

M.S. in Control Theory and Application (Electrical Engineering) March, 1999

B.S. in Automatic Control (Electrical Engineering) July, 1996

WORK & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA

Sept. 1999 – Present (Doctoral Thesis)

·       Developing a framework for coordination in decentralized control system with communication between controllers

·       Formulating the optimization problem for controllers to achieve coordination;

·       Developing numerical techniques for the proposed optimization problem

·       Developing techniques in approximating reachable set

Dec. 2000 – Present

·       Participating in developing a remote simulation environment for the control of power system;

·       Using the Simplex (A platform for real time controller switching) to achieve switching between different control strategy;

·       Using JAVA tools in Matlab to achieve communication between Power System Simulator and the Simplex

Northwest Power Inc Xi’an, Shaanxi, P.R.China

Apr. 1999 – July 1999 (Paid Job)

·       Participated in building a GIS system for management of power system

·       Built the GUI for the system: drawing the map and the system diagram

Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R.China

Sept. 1998 – Jan. 1999

·       Developed the control method to achieve active water wave absorbing;

·       Designed the experiment scheme to test the proposed method;

May 1998 – Sept. 1998

·       Participated in the development of a GPS/GIS system for automotive

·       Matched the data from the GPS satellites with the data on maps

·       Extracted geo-data from CAD data file

·       Designed geo-database for the system

·       Designed the software for the system

·       Integrated all parts of the software

Jun. 1998

·       Developed the DOS-based GUI for the steady flow turbine test system

May 1998

·       Developed the DOS-based GUI for the wave-making system

Hengdian Inc. Chang’an, Guangdong, P.R.China

Feb. 1998 – May 1998

·       Participated in the development of the real-time computer control system for the capacitor-winding machine

·       Assisted in the development of the multi-task time-sharing real-time control software for the control system

Xi’an Jiaotong University Xi’an, Shaanxi, P.R.China

Nov. 1997 – Feb. 1998

·       Developed the learning algorithm for the intelligent control of chaotic system

·       Used a type of wavelet function to construct the neural network

Mar. 1996 – Jan. 1997

·       Developed the learning algorithm, based on the theory of artificial neural network, for adaptive PD controller.

PUBLICATIONS

Jia, D. and Krogh, B.H., Min-max feedback model predictive control for distributed control with communication, accepted by the 2002 American Control Conference, 2001

Camponogara, E., Jia, D., Krogh, B.H. and Talukdar, S., Distributed model predictive control, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 2001

Jia, D. and Krogh, B.H., Distributed model predictive control (Best Presentation Prize), Proceeding of the 2001 American Control Conference, 2001

Wang, Z., Cai, Y., Jia, D. and Liu, W., Neural network control for chaos systems, Control and Decision Metals, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 55-58, 2000

Wang, Z., Cai, Y. and Jia, D., Wavelet based control for chaos motion, ACTA Physica Sinica, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 206-212, 1999

Jia, D. and Cai, Y., Improvement of a PD controller based on single neutron,  Chinese World Conference on Intelligent Control and Intelligent Automation (CWCICIA'97), 1997

HONORS

Xi’an Jiaotong University Excellent Student Prize, 1997, 1995

Xi’an Jiaotong University Scholarship Second Prize, 1997, 1994, 1993, 1992

Xi’an Jiaotong University Excellent Graduate Student Prize, 1996

Xi’an Jiaotong University Scholarship First Prize, 1995

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