Li Qiu - Professor Communication systems
Date: - Location: Eurecom
Abstract: The phase or argument of a complex number is an important yet elementary concept, essential to almost all scientific disciplines. In signal and system theory the concept of phase used to play an extremely important role. However, in the era of MIMO systems, the role of phase had been diminishing until very recently when we revived the study of phase and its applications in complex systems. In this talk, we will examine the progress achieved in this study, starting from the phase of a matrix to the phase of a nonlinear network. Short bio: Prof. Li Qiu received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto in 1990. He joined Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1993 and is now a Professor Emeritus in Electronic and Computer Engineering. In September 2024, he started working in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, as a Presidential Chair Professor. Prof. Qiu’s research interests include system, control, optimization theory, and mathematics for information technology, as well as their applications in manufacturing industry and energy systems. He served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Automatica. He was the general chair of the 7th Asian Control Conference, which was held in Hong Kong in 2009. He was a Distinguished Lecturer from 2007 to 2010 and was a member of the Board of Governors in 2012 and 2017 of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He was the founding chairperson of the Hong Kong Automatic Control Association and a vice president of Asian Control Association. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of IFAC, and an inaugural Fellow of Asian Control Association (ACA).
