Associate Professor
Department of Automation
East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST)
130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, China
Email: yangchao AT ecust.edu.cn

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Research Interests

Networked Control Systems, State Estimation, Optimal Filtering,Sensor Scheduling, Security in Cyber-Physical Systems.

Work Experience

2018.9-Present
Associate Professor, Department of Automation, East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China

2016.11-2018.8
Lecturer, Department of Automation, East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China

2014.9-2016.11
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Automation, East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China

2013.9-2014.8
Research Associate, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong

Education

2009.9-2013.8
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, Supervisor: Ling Shi

2013.3-2013.5
Visiting student, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), United States, Advisor: Bruno Sinopoli

2005.9-2009.7
B.Sc. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Technology, Peking University (PKU), Beijing, China

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Publications

Journal Publications

[J.4] Multi-Sensor Kalman Filtering With Intermittent Measurements
Chao Yang, Jianying Zheng, Xiaoqiang Ren, Wen Yang, Hongbo Shi, and Ling Shi
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, volume 63, no.3, pages 797 - 804, 2018.

[J.3] Deterministic Sensor Selection for Centralized State Estimation under Limited Communication Resource
Chao Yang, Junfeng Wu, Xiaoqiang Ren, Wen Yang, Hongbo Shi, and Ling Shi
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, volume 63, no.9, pages 2336 - 2348, 2015.

[J.2] Schedule Communication for Decentralized State Estimation
Chao Yang, Junfeng Wu, Wei Zhang, and Ling Shi
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, volume 61, no.10, pages 2525-2535, 2013.

[J.1] Deterministic Sensor Data Scheduling Under Limited Communication Resource
Chao Yang and Ling Shi
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, volume 59, no. 10, pages 5050-5056, 2011.

Conference Publications

[C.6] Majorization Theory in Sensor Scheduling
Chao Yang, Wen Yang, and Hongbo Shi
The 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Osaka, Japan, 2015.

[C.5] Jamming Attack in Centralized State Estimation
Chao Yang, Xiaoqiang Ren, Wen Yang, Hongbo Shi, and Ling Shi
The 34th Chinese Control Conference (CCC), Hangzhou, China, 2015.

[C.4] Sensor Scheduling for Communication Resource Minimization in Centralized State Estimation
Chao Yang, Xiaoqiang Ren, Jianying Zheng, and Ling Shi
The 2014 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA), Hailar, China, 2014.

[C.3] A Study of Estimation and Communication Tradeoff using an Event-based Approach
Chao Yang, Wann-Jiun Ma, and Ling Shi
The 47th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, Nov 2013.

[C.2] Communication Scheduling for Decentralized State Estimation
Chao Yang, Junfeng Wu, Wei Zhang, and Ling Shi
The 12th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), Guangzhou, China, 2012.

[C.1] Communication Topology Design under Limited Bandwidth
Chao Yang, Junfeng Wu, Wei Zhang, and Ling Shi
The 20th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Melbourne, Australia, 2012.