I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Ohio State University.

I received a B.E. degree in Automatic Control from the University of Science the Technology of China (USTC) in 2003, a Master degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kentucky in 2005, and a dual Master degree in Statistics and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering both from Purdue University in 2009. Between January 2010 and August 2011, I was a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of EECS at the University of California, Berkeley.

My research draws on the diverse methods from control theory, optimization, and game theory, to aid in the analysis and design of complex cyber-physical systems. One recent focus is on combing model-based control with model-free reinforcement learning for robotic applications. Another focus is on game and market mechanism design problems originated from emerging power system and transportation applications. On top of these, I have a strong interest in hybrid dynamical systems, which involve continuous dynamics coupled with discrete logic rules and are one of the most widely adopted modeling frameworks for cyber-physical systems.

I am a recipient of the 2015 Lumley Research Award at OSU and the NSF CAREER Award. I served as an Associate Editor of the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society between 2013 and 2016. I am currently a Senior Member of IEEE and an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.