Jie Qi

Jie Qi

Jie Qi is a professor with Donghua University, China. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for Systems & Control Letters. She is also a member of the Teaching Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation, an Executive Council Member of the Shanghai Association of Automation, and a Council Member of Shanghai Association of Systems Simulation. Her research interests include control and estimation of partial differential equations, control of time-delay systems, learning-based control for PDE systems, and their applications in multi-agent systems and industrial production processes.

📖 Educations

  • PhD. of Engineering, March 2005
    Systems Engineering, Institute of Systems Engineering, Northeastern University, China
    Thesis: “The dynamics analysis and optimization of a class of advertisement models and its applications”
    Advisor: Prof. Wang, Dingwei
  • Bachelor of Engineering, Automation, July 2000
    Dept. of Automation, Northeastern University, China

💼 Professional Experiences

  • Sep. 2016 to present, Professor
    Department of Automation, School of Information and Intelligent Science, Donghua University, Shanghai, China
  • September 2023 to September 2024, Academic Visitor
    Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK, with Prof. Ruth Baker
  • January 2019 to January 2020, Visiting Scholar
    Chemical & Materials Engineering Department, Donadeo Innovation Center for Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada, with Prof. Stevan Dubljevic
  • June 2015 to September 2015, Visiting Scholar
    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, USA, with Prof. Miroslav Krstic
  • March 2013 to February 2014, Visiting Scholar
    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, USA, with Prof. Miroslav Krstic
  • September 2008 to August 2016, Associate Professor
    Department of Automation, College of Information Science and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai, China
  • March 2007 to March 2008, Research Assistant
    Institute of Textiles & Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, with Prof. Wai-Keung Wong
  • July 2005 to August 2008, Lecture
    Department of Automation, College of Information Science and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai, China

📝 Selected publications

* Corresponding author

💬 Invited Talks

  • 2025.06, Keynote talk at the 5th IFAC Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations: “Backstepping Control Design for PDE Systems with Different Delay Forms”.
  • 2024.11, Keynote talk at the 3rd International Symposium on Computing and Artificial Intelligence: “Large-Scale Multi-Agent Control via a PDE-Based Approach”.

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2025 Songjiang District High-Level Talent Program (Shanghai)
  • 2017 Baosteel Excellent Teacher Award
  • 2013 Twelfth Shanghai Outstanding Youth Post Expert.
  • 2010 Donghua University the First Prize in the Lectures Contest.
  • 2009 Shanghai Excellent Instructor of the Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
  • 2008 Dawn of the Shanghai Scholar.

🔬 Research Work

  • Project 1: Control of Several Classes of Distributed Parameter Systems with Spatially-Varying Delays. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 62173084, 2022.1-2025.12, Principal Investigator.
  • Project 2: Reinforcement Learning based Control of the Melt Spinning Forming Process for Polyamide Fiber. Shanghai Natural Science Foundation, 23ZR1401800, 2023.4-2026.3, Principal Investigator.
  • Project 3: PDE-Based Modeling and Formation Control for Large Scale Collective Systems with Time-Delay and Time-Varying. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 61773112, 2018.1-2021.12, Principal Investigator.

📚 Teaching

  • Automation Control Theory, Undergraduate, Spring 05, 06, 08-11, 12-18, 20-23, 25-
  • Mathematical modeling and Mathematical experiments, Undergraduate, Fall 05, 06, 08-18, 20
  • Modern Control Theory, Graduated, Spring 09, 11, 12, 15
  • Special topics in theory and technology of complex system modeling, Graduated, Fall 15-18, 20-23, 25-

Office Address

Building 2, Room 2221, No 2999 North Renmin Road, Songjiang, Shanghai, China