Zhiyun Lin received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Toronto, Canada, in 2005. He is currently a Full Professor in School of System Design and Intelligent Manufacturing, Southern University of Science and Technology. Preceding to this position, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate(2005-2007) in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada, worked as a Research Professor (2007-2011) and Full Professor (2012-2017) at College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China, and served as the Director of Artificial Intelligence Institute (2017-2021), Hangzhou Dianzi University, China. He has held many visiting professor appointments at world-leading universities, including Yale University (USA), The Australian National University (Australia), University of Groningen (The Netherlands), University of Cagliari (Italy), University of Newcastle (Australia), University of Technology Sydney (Australia), etc. He served as a technical committee member of The International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) on Networked Systems as well as on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems, and also a standing committee member ofChinese Institute of Command and Control (CICC) on Swarm Intelligence and Cooperative Control. He was also an Associate Editor of several international journals, including IEEE Control Systems Letters, Nonlinear Analysis:Hybrid Systems, Electronic, The Chinese Journal of Artificial Intelligence, etc. His research interests focus on multi-agent systems, distributed artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and swarm robots, and cyber-physical systems. He has authored and coauthored one monograph and over 200 peer-reviewed papers in leading international journals and conferences. According to Google Scholar, his work has been cited over 6900 times. From 2014 to 2020, he has been consecutively selected in the list of “Mostly Cited Chinese Researchers” by Elsevier for seven years. He has over 50 granted/pending invention patents and is the founder of Zhejiang CoTEK robotics Co., ltd. He has received a number of awards and honors for his research, including Natural Science Award of Zhejiang Province, Science and Technology Award of Zhejiang Province, Science and Technology Innovation Award of China Society for the Promotion of Science and Technology Commercialization, Science and Technology Innovation Award of China Industry-University-Research Institute Collaboration Association, Qianjiang Plan of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Provincial Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars, 151 Talents Project of Zhejiang Province, 521 Talents Project of Hangzhou, etc. He is a Fellow of IET.

Education Background

2001.09 - 2005.10,University of Toronto,Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering  PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

1998.09 - 2001.03, Zhejiang University,Department of Electrical Engineering,MSc(Eng.), Electrical Engineering

1994.09 -1998.07, Yanshan University,Department of Electrical Engineering,BSc, Electrical Engineering

Working Experience

2023.02  ,Southern University of Science and Technology, School of System Design and Intelligent Manufacturing(SDIM),Deputy Dean of School 

2021.08-2023.01,Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Full Professor

2017.05-2021.08,Hangzhou Dianzi University, School of Automation,Distinguished Professor, Director of Artificial Intelligence Institute

2011.12- 2017.04, Zhejiang University, College of Electrical Engineering,Full Professor

2007.09 - 2011.12, Zhejiang University, College of Electrical Engineering,Research Professor

2005.10- 2007.08, University of Toronto, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research Area

Multi-agent systems: distributed estimation, control and optimization

Distributed artificial intelligence

Autonomous systems and swarm robots

Cyber-physical systems

Publications

(1) Zhiyun Lin; Lili Wang; Zhimin Han; Minyue Fu ; A Graph Laplacian Approach to Coordinate-free Formation Stabilization for Directed Networks, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2016,61(5): 1269-1280

(2) Zhiyun Lin; Lili Wang; Zhiyong Chen; Minyue Fu; Zhimin Han ; Necessary and sufficient graphical conditions for affine formation control, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2016, 61(10）: 2877-2897

(3) Zhiyun Lin; Tingrui Han; Ronghao Zheng; Minyue Fu ; Distributed localization for 2-D sensor networks with bearing-only measurements under switching topologies, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2016, 64(23): 6345-6359

(4) Yun Xu; Tingrui Han; Kai Cai; Zhiyun Lin; Gangfeng Yan; Minyue Fu ; A Distributed Algorithm for Resource Allocation Over Dynamic Digraphs, IEEE Transactions ON Signal Processing, 2017, 65(10): 2600-2612

(5) Jian Hou; Zhiyun Lin; Mengfan Xiang; Mingyue Jiang ; Random grouping based resilient beamforming, Automatica, 2021, 123(1)

(6) Zhiyun Lin; Tingrui Han; Ronghao Zheng; Changbin Yu ; Distributed localization with mixedmeasurements under switching topologies, Automatica, 2017, 76(1): 251-257

(7) Zhiyun Lin; Minyue Fu; Yingfei Diao ; Distributed Self Localization for Relative PositionSensing Networks in 2D Space, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2015, 63(14): 3751-3761

(8) Zhiyun Lin; Lili Wang; Zhimin Han; Minyue Fu ; Distributed formation control of multi-agent systems using complex Laplacian, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2014, 59(7): 1765-1777

(9) Zhiyun Lin; Chen Wang ; Scheduling parallel Kalman filters for multiple processes, Automatica, 2013, 49(1): 9-16

(10) Zhiyun Lin; Bruce Francis; Manfredi Maggiore ; State agreement for continuous-time coupled nonlinear systems, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2007, 46(1): 288-307

(11) Zhiyun Lin; Bruce Francis; Manfredi Maggiore ; Necessary and sufficient graphical conditions for formation control of unicycles, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2005, 50(1): 121-127

(12) Zhiyun Lin; Mireille Broucke; Bruce Francis ; Local control strategies for groups of mobile autonomous agents, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2004, 49(4): 622-629

(13) Yanjun Lin; Zhiyun Lin; Zhiyong Sun; Brian D.O. Anderson ; A unified approach for finitetime global stabilization of affine, rigid and translational formation, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2021, Early Access

(14) Yingfei Diao; Zhiyun Lin; Minyue Fu ; A barycentric coordinate based distributed localization algorithm for sensor networks, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2014, 62(18): 4760-4771