Xiaohong Guan @ Tsinghua University, Beijing

Professor Xiaohong Guan received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Control Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1982 and 1985, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 1993. He was a senior consulting engineer with Pacific Gas and Electric from 1993 to 1995. He visited the Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University from Jan. 1999 to Feb. 2000. From 1985 to 1988 and since 1995 he has been with the Systems Engineering Institute at Xian Jiaotong University, Xian, China, and was appointed as the Cheung Kong Professor of Systems Engineering and Director of the State Key Lab for Manufacturing Systems in 1999. Since 2001 he has been the Director of the Center for Intelligent and Networked Systems and since 2003 the Chair of Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Professor Guan is a Fellow of IEEE and an Associate Editor of Automatica. He received the Second Prize of the National Award for Natural Science of China in 2005, the Second Prize of the National Award for Science and Technology Advances of China in 2006, the National Outstanding Young Investigator Award of China in 1997 and Li Heritage Prize for Excellence in Creative Activities in 1996. His research interests include economics and security of networked systems; scheduling and optimization of large scale electrical power and manufacturing systems; bidding strategies, game theoretic analysis, simulation and forecasting of electric power markets; sensor networks, and computer network security.