Hongtian Chen received his Ph.D. degree in College of Automation Engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, in 2019. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta, Canada, from 2019 to 2023.
Dr. Chen joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China in 2023 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Automation. His research interests include fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control, data mining and analytics, machine learning, and cooperative control; and their applications in high-speed trains and autonomous systems.
Dr. Chen was a recipient of the Grand Prize of Innovation Award of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China in 2019, the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award from Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) in 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions in 2023, etc. 
Keywords: Fault diagnosis, fault-tolerant control, data-driven techniques, high-speed trains, traction systems, autonomous systems, fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle, machine learning, unmanned surface vehicle, underwater robot.