I received the B.E. degree from Hebei Polytechnic University, China, in 2007, the M. E. degree from Guizhou University, China, in 2010, and the PhD degree from Swinburne University of Technology (SUT), Australia, in 2014, respectively, all in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. From 2014 to 2015, I was the Postdoc Research Fellow in the Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Technology, at SUT, Australia. From 2015 to 2019, I was with the School of Electrical and Automation Engineering at Hefei University of Technology, China, where I served as the full Professor (Huangshan Young Scholar) and the Deputy Discipline Head of Automation. In early 2019, I joined Murdoch University as a Senior Lecturer of Electrical Engineering (tenured) and served as Academic Chair of Instrumentation and Control Engineering (ICE), Industrial Computing Systems Engineering (ICSE) in 2020-2022, and I am currently an Associate Professor and serving as Academic Chair of Intelligent Industrial Control & Autonomous Systems Engineering (IICASE), in the School of Engineering and Energy, College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

I am also leading the Advanced Robotics and Autonomous Systems (ARAS) Research Laboratory at Murdoch University, located in Building 807. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to visit the ARAS lab and discuss about potential research and project opportunities.

My research interests are in sliding mode control, adaptive control, robotics & mechatronics, nonlinear systems, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles and systems (drones, ground robots, and underwater vehicles), sensors and actuators, Industry 4.0 and smart agriculture, etc. I am the author of over 140 refereed journal papers including (40+ IEEE Transactions papers, 120+ Q1 journal papers).

Additional Information
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a senior member of IEEE, Chair of IEEE-IES WA Chapter (2024), and also serving as Section Editor-in-Chief of Actuators, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Computers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), IEEE Access, ASME-Journal of Autonomous Vehicles and Systems, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Lead Guest Editor of Neural Computing and Applications, Computers and Electrical Engineering, Actuators, from 2020.

I have received the following awards in the past few years:
(i) Murdoch University 2023 Vice Chancellor's Excellence in Research – Early Career Research Award
(ii) Best Paper Award for 2021 International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems (ICAMechS)
(iii) 2013 Engineering Excellence Award for Postgraduate Research from the Society of Automotive Engineering-Australasia (SAE-A).