Dr Jianglin Lan

Lecturer in Autonomous Systems (Autonomous Systems & Connectivity)

email: Jianglin.Lan@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 406, James Watt North Building, Glasgow, G12 8LU

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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649

Biography

Work Experience:

2025 - present: Lecturer in Autonomous Systems, leading the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (AIR) Lab, University of Glasgow.
2022 - 2025: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Glasgow.
2023 - present: Honorary Research Fellow, at Department of Computing, Imperial College London.
2024: Visiting Scientist, at ABE Group, Wageningen University & Research.
2023: Visiting Professor, at The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
2017 - 2022: Research Associate, at Imperial College London, University of Glasgow, Loughborough University, University of Sheffield.

Education:

PhD in Engineering, University of Hull, 2017.
MSc in Control Theory and Control Engineering, South China University of Technology, 2014.
BEng in Automation, South China Agricultural University, 2011.

Research interests

Dr Lan's research interests include but are not limited to:

Safe & robust AI and autonomy
Low-carbon machine learning techniques
Monitoring and verification of learning-enabled systems
Data-driven control
Fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control
Applications: autonomous vehicles, robotics, energy systems

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Publications

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Number of items: 47.

2026

Xiao, Maxiu, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Yu, Jingxin, Ma, Weihong, Xie, Qiuju and Sun, Congcong (2026) Grower-in-the-loop interactive reinforcement learning for greenhouse climate control. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 242, p. 111312. 111312. (doi: 10.1016/j.compag.2025.111312)

2025

Lin, Zhihao ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8152-3886, Wu, Lin, Tian, Zhen, Lomuscio, Alessio and Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 (2025) Scalable and Safe Multi-Agent Coordination with Reconstructed Level-k Monte Carlo Tree Search. In: 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026), Paphos, Cyprus, 25-29 May 2026, (Accepted for Publication)

Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 and Sun, Congcong (2025) Safe Stabilization for Control-affine Systems using Non-smooth Control Lyapunov Barrier Function. In: 6th International Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems (SysTol), Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 6-8 Oct 2025, ISBN 9781665457712 (doi: 10.1109/SysTol66549.2025.11267374)

Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Zhao, Xianxian, Zhan, Siyuan and Patton, Ron (2025) Integrated Fault-tolerant Control over Lossy Communication Networks. In: 6th International Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems (SysTol), Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 6-8 Oct 2025, pp. 28-33. ISBN 9781665457712 (doi: 10.1109/SysTol66549.2025.11267294)

Lin, Zhihao ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8152-3886, Zhen, Tian, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Zhao, Dezong ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9848-372X and Wei, Chongfeng ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4565-509X (2025) Uncertainty-aware roundabout navigation: a switched decision framework integrating Stackelberg games and dynamic potential fields. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, (doi: 10.1109/TVT.2025.3638264) (Early Online Publication)

Liu, Yiliu, Liu, Chun, Ren, Xiaoqiang, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 and Wang, Xiaofan (2025) Distributed fault-tolerant consensus tracking control for multi-agent systems under multiple attacks: an encoding–decoding strategy. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 200(Part 3), 117117. (doi: 10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117117)

Wu, Lin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7376-5384, Wei, Wei, Yu, Peizhuo and Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 (2025) Open-Vocabulary 3D Affordance Understanding via Functional Text Enhancement and Multilevel Representation Alignment. In: 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM '25), Dublin, Ireland, 27-31 October 2025, pp. 7988-7997. ISBN 9798400720352 (doi: 10.1145/3746027.3755239)

Wang, Haiwen, Liu, Chun, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Ren, Xiaoqiang and Wang, Xiaofan (2025) Quantized observer-based distributed fault-tolerant control for discrete multi-agent systems with limited bandwidth. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, (doi: 10.1002/rnc.70243) (Early Online Publication)

Zhao, Fangzhou, Sun, Yao ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4391-377X, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 and Imran, Muhammad Ali ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4743-9136 (2025) Dynamic control aware semantic communication enabled image transmission for lunar landing. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, (doi: 10.1109/TNSE.2025.3622925) (Early Online Publication)

Lan, Song, Zhang, Zhixiong, Wang, Jiawei and Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 (2025) Graphite plates for enhanced high-temperature stability and thermal uniformity in thermoelectric generators applied to range-extending engine. Energy, 332, 137303. (doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2025.137303)

Wu, Lin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7376-5384, Chen, Zhixiang and Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 (2025) HOI-Dyn: Learning Interaction Dynamics for Human-Object Motion Diffusion. In: Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), San Diego, CA, USA, 2-7 Dec 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Lin, Zhihao ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8152-3886, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Nguyen, Anh-Tu and Flynn, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1024-3618 (2025) Contingency-aware spatiotemporal optimization for safe autonomous vehicle trajectory planning. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, (doi: 10.1109/TITS.2025.3597234) (Early Online Publication)

Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Zhao, Xianxian and Sun, Congcong (2025) Data-driven sliding mode control for partially unknown nonlinear systems. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, (doi: 10.1002/rnc.70139) (Early Online Publication)

Lin, Zhihao ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8152-3886, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Anagnostopoulos, Christos ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1517-6757, Tian, Zhen and Flynn, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1024-3618 (2025) Safety-critical multi-agent MCTS for mixed traffic coordination at unsignalized intersections. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, (doi: 10.1109/TITS.2025.3598727) (Early Online Publication)

Lin, Zhihao ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8152-3886, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 and Zhao, Xianxian (2025) KAN-LSTM enhanced multi-agent advantage actor-critic reinforcement learning for autonomous ramp merging. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, (doi: 10.1109/TVT.2025.3593661) (Early Online Publication)

Zhao, Fangzhou, Sun, Yao ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4391-377X, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Zhang, Lan, Liu, Xuesong and Imran, Muhammad Ali ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4743-9136 (2025) Semantic Communication Empowered Transmission Policy for UAV/UGV Cooperative Path Planning. In: 2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan, 8–12 December 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Lin, Zhihao ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8152-3886, Tian, Zhen, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Zhang, Qi, Ye, Ziyang, Zhuang, Hanyang and Zhao, Xianxian (2025) A conflicts-free, speed-lossless KAN-based reinforcement learning decision system for interactive driving in roundabouts. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, (doi: 10.1109/TITS.2025.3578279) (Early Online Publication)

Jing, Guanbo, Liu, Chun, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 and Chen, Hongtian (2025) Hierarchical reinforcement learning-based distributed fault-tolerant control for 2-D plane vehicular platoon systems. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, (doi: 10.1109/TVT.2025.3578994) (Early Online Publication)

Kobilov, Azizjon and Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 (2025) Automatic Robot Task Planning by Integrating Large Language Model with Genetic Programming. In: 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ARM), Portsmouth, UK, 01-03 Aug 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Sun, Congcong, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Wang, Wentao, Benders, Jan, Xiao, Yanzheng and van Henten, Eldert (2025) Safe Control and Coordination of Heterogeneous Leader-Follower Agrobots for In-field Agro-Food Production. In: 8th IFAC Conference on Sensing, Control and Automation Technologies for Agriculture (AGRICONTROL 2025), Davis, CA, USA, 27-29 Aug 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Vijayakumar, Harikrishnan, Zhao, Dezong ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9848-372X, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Zhao, Wenjing, Flynn, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1024-3618, Li, Dachuan, Zhou, Quan, Zhang, Yuanjian and Song, Kang (2025) Decision making of Automated Vehicles in mixed environment based on Bayesian sequential games. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, (doi: 10.1109/TITS.2025.3561510) (Early Online Publication)

Lin, Zhihao ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8152-3886, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Anagnostopoulos, Christos ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1517-6757, Tian, Zhen and Flynn, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1024-3618 (2025) Multi-Agent Monte Carlo Tree Search for Safe Decision Making at Unsignalized Intersections. In: IEEE ICDCS 2025 45th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Glasgow, Scotland, 20-23 Jul 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Lin, Zhihao ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8152-3886, Zhang, Qi, Tian, Zhen, Yu, Peizhuo, Ye, Ziyang, Zhuang, Hanyang and Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 (2025) SLAM2: Simultaneous Localization and Multimode Mapping for indoor dynamic environments. Pattern Recognition, 158, 111054. (doi: 10.1016/j.patcog.2024.111054)

2024

Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 (2024) Data-driven dual-loop control for platooning mixed human-driven and automated vehicles. IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 18(12), pp. 2576-2585. (doi: 10.1049/itr2.12409)

Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 (2024) Data-driven cooperative adaptive cruise control for unknown nonlinear vehicle platoons. IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 18(11), pp. 2114-2123. (doi: 10.1049/itr2.12556)

Liu, Yiliu, Liu, Chun, Wang, Xiaofan, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 and Ren, Xiaoqiang (2024) Encryption–decryption-based distributed fault-tolerant consensus tracking control for multi-agent systems. ISA Transactions, 154, pp. 14-22. (doi: 10.1016/j.isatra.2024.08.015) (PMID:39214754)

Lin, Zhihao ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8152-3886, Tian, Zhen, Zhang, Qi, Zhuang, Hanyang and Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 (2024) Enhanced visual SLAM for collision-free driving with lightweight autonomous cars. Sensors, 24(19), 6258. (doi: 10.3390/s24196258)

Zhang, Ning, Wang, Jiawei, Li, Yuhuai, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 and Lan, Song (2024) The impact of the heat leakage through air gap on thermoelectric generator applied in engine waste heat recovery. Green Energy and Resources, 2(3), 100088. (doi: 10.1016/j.gerr.2024.100088)

Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Zhan, Siyuan, Patton, Ron and Zhao, Xianxian (2024) Runtime Monitoring and Fault Detection for Neural Network-Controlled Systems. In: 12th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes, Ferrara, Italy, 04-07 Jun 2024, (doi: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.07.227)

Hu, Hanjiang, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 and Liu, Changliu (2024) Real-Time Safe Control of Neural Network Dynamic Models with Sound Approximation. In: 6th Annual Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference (L4DC), Oxford, England, 15-17 Jul 2024, pp. 92-103.

Zhan, Siyuan, Chen, Yutao, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 and Zhang, Yao (2024) Energy Maximisation Control for an Array of Wave Energy Converters - A Distributed Approach. In: UKACC 14th International Conference on Control, Winchester, UK, 10-12 Apr 2024, pp. 31-36. ISBN 9798350374261 (doi: 10.1109/CONTROL60310.2024.10531892)

Lin, Zhihao ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8152-3886, Zhang, Qi, Tian, Zhen, Yu, Peizhuo and Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 (2024) DPL-SLAM: Enhancing Dynamic Point-Line SLAM through dense semantic methods. IEEE Sensors Journal, 24(9), pp. 14596-14607. (doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2024.3373892)

Wang, Qiang, Liu, Chun, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Ren, Xiaoqiang, Meng, Yizhen and Wang, Xiaofan (2024) Distributed secure surrounding control for multiple USVs against deception attacks: a Stackelberg game approach with reinforcement learning. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, (doi: 10.1109/TIV.2024.3392423) (Early Online Publication)

Gu, Wen, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 and Mason, Byron (2024) Online neuro-fuzzy model learning of dynamic systems with measurement noise. Nonlinear Dynamics, 112, pp. 5525-5540. (doi: 10.1007/s11071-024-09360-x)

Jiang, Junqi, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Leofante, Francesco, Rago, Antonio and Toni, Francesca (2024) Provably Robust and Plausible Counterfactual Explanations for Neural Networks via Robust Optimisation. In: 15th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2023), Istanbul, Turkey, 11-14 Nov 2023, pp. 582-597.

2023

Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 and Zhao, Dezong ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9848-372X (2023) Finding the LQR weights to ensure the associated Riccati equations admit a common solution. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 68(10), pp. 6393-6400. (doi: 10.1109/TAC.2023.3234237)

Vijayakumar, Harikirshnan, Zhao, Dezong ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9848-372X, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Zhao, Wenjing, Tian, Daxin, Li, Dachuan, Zhou, Quan and Song, Kang (2023) A holistic safe planner for automated driving considering interaction with human drivers. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 9(1), pp. 2061-2076. (doi: 10.1109/TIV.2023.3317338)

Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Bruckner, Benedikt and Lomuscio, Alessio (2023) A Semidefinite Relaxation based Branch-and-Bound Method for Tight Neural Network Verification. In: 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-23), Washington, DC, USA, 7-14 Feb 2023, pp. 14946-14954. ISBN 9781577358800 (doi: 10.1609/aaai.v37i12.26745)

Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Zheng, Yang and Lomuscio, Alessio (2023) Iteratively Enhanced Semidefinite Relaxations for Efficient Neural Network Verification. In: 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-23), Washington, DC, USA, 7-14 Feb 2023, pp. 14937-14945. (doi: 10.1609/aaai.v37i12.26744)

Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Zhao, Dezong ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9848-372X and Tian, Daxin (2023) Data-driven robust predictive control for mixed vehicle platoons using noisy measurement. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24(6), pp. 6586-6596. (doi: 10.1109/TITS.2021.3128406)

Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Zhao, Dezong ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9848-372X and Tian, Daxin (2023) Safe and robust data-driven cooperative control policy for mixed vehicle platoons. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 33(7), pp. 4171-4190. (doi: 10.1002/rnc.6412)

Yang, Jinsong, Zhao, Dezong ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9848-372X, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Xue, Shibei, Zhao, Wenjing, Tian, Daxin, Zhou, Quan and Song, Kang (2023) Eco-driving of general mixed platoons with CAVs and HDVs. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 8(2), pp. 1190-1203. (doi: 10.1109/TIV.2022.3224679)

Yang, Jinsong, Zhao, Dezong ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9848-372X, Jiang, Jingjing, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Mason, Byron, Tian, Daxin and Li, Liang (2023) A less-disturbed ecological driving strategy for connected and automated vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 8(1), pp. 413-424. (doi: 10.1109/TIV.2021.3112499)

Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 (2023) Safety Monitoring and Alert for Neural Network-Enabled Control Systems. In: 22nd IFAC World Congress (IFAC 2023), Yokohama, Japan, 09-14 Jul 2023, pp. 9436-9441. (doi: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.237)

Vijayakumar, Harikrishnan, Zhao, Dezong ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9848-372X, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Zhao, Wenjing, Tian, Daxin and Zhang, Yuanjian (2023) A Safe Decision Making Framework for Automated Vehicle Navigation among Human Drivers. In: 22nd IFAC World Congress (IFAC 2023), Yokohama, Japan, 09-14 Jul 2023, pp. 4910-4915. (doi: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.1263)

2022

Yang, Jinsong, Zhao, Dezong ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9848-372X, Jiang, Jingjing, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 and Li, Liang (2022) An ecological driving strategy for heterogeneous platoon of connected and automated vehicles. Journal of Automotive Safety and Energy, 2022(4), pp. 676-685.

Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649 and Patton, Ron (2022) An iterative strategy for robust integration of fault estimation and fault-tolerant control. Automatica, 145, 110556. (doi: 10.1016/j.automatica.2022.110556)

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Articles

Conference Proceedings

Lin, Zhihao ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8152-3886, Lan, Jianglin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-5649, Anagnostopoulos, Christos ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1517-6757, Tian, Zhen and Flynn, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1024-3618 (2025) Multi-Agent Monte Carlo Tree Search for Safe Decision Making at Unsignalized Intersections. In: IEEE ICDCS 2025 45th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Glasgow, Scotland, 20-23 Jul 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

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Grants

PI: Royal Society of Edinburgh International Joint Project (DAAD), "A real-world data-driven simulator for interaction-aware autonomous driving benchmarking", £6k, 2025-2026.
UK PI: Embassy of France in the UK - Sophie Germain Funding Scheme, "Learning-based safe navigation for autonomous vehicles in complex environments", €36k, 2025-2026.
PI: Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship & UofG LKAS Leadership Fellowship, "Decarbonising machine learning for safe and robust autonomous systems", £383k, 2022-2025.
PI: Royal Society International Exchanges, "A data-driven fault-tolerant mechanism design method for future intelligent energy supply systems", £12k, 2023-2025.
PI: Royal Society International Exchanges Cost Share (NSFC), "An accurate, robust and lightweight multi-camera multi-vehicle tracking system for the future intelligent transportation system", £12k, 2023-2025.
PI: Graduate School for Production Ecology & Resource Conservation (PE&RC), Wageningen University & Research, €10k, 2024.
PI: Division of Autonomous Systems & Connectivity ECR Fund, £4k, 2022.

Supervision

Dr Lan always welcomes enquiries to supervise research students and visiting students/scholars in his research areas.

Postdoctoral opportunities:

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships: https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/postdoctoral-fellowships
Newton International Fellowships (including Royal Society K C Wong International Fellowships for China applicants): https://royalsociety.org/grants/newton-international/

Current PhD scholarship opportunities:

School / EPSRC scholarship application (Dealine January or May each year): https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/engineering/phdopportunities/
China Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD scholarship (Deadline January each year): https://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/scienceengineering/graduateschool/scholarships/chinascholarshipcouncil/

Current PhD students:

Principal supervisor

Lin Wu (2024-): EPSRC Scholarship, Multimodal learning
Mahmud Sani Zango (2023-): Commonwealth Scholarship, Machine learning for resource-constrained UAVs
Azizjon Kobilov (2023-): El-Yurt Umidi scholarship, Learning and control for autonomous systems
Zhihao Lin (2023-), China Scholarship Council scholarship, Autonomous driving
Yuxuan Han (2023-): Autonomous multi-UAVs systems
Wei Wei (2023-): Safe reinforcement learning control
Peizhuo Yu (2022-), Robot navigation in human-shared environment

Second supervisor

Chen, Qikun
Causal Reasoning for Effective and Trustworthy Decision Making in Automated Tasks
Wu, Lin
Interaction-Centric Multimodal Learning in Intelligent Agents

Alumni:

PhD: Harikrishnan Vijayakumar (2nd Supervisor)

MSc:

2024: Qinyu Fan, Zhiyu Ren, Binhan Tian, Haoyu Wang, Xinyuan Wu
2023: Hongyu Liu

Undergraduate:

2025: Bader Alajmi, Yousef Alraqum
2024: David Lawton, Leo Liu

Teaching

Control Systems Analysis and Design M (ENG5314)
Control M (ENG5022, Continuous system part)
Simulation of Engineering Systems M (ENG5076)
Simulation of Engineering Systems 3 (ENG3036)

Professional activities & recognition

Research fellowships

2022 - 2025: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
2022 - 2025: Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Felllowship
2024 - 2024: The Netherlands Graduate School for Production Ecology & Resource Conservation (PE&RC) Visiting Scientist

Grant committees & research advisory boards

2024 - 2024: University of Glasgow, PGR Travel Scholarship Selection Panel

Editorial boards

2023: Editor, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing
2025 - 2025: Publication Chair, The 45th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

Professional & learned societies

2022 - 2024: Member, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
2023: Affiliate, International Federation of Automatic Control
2024: IFAC SAFEPROCESS Technical Committee Member, International Federation of Automatic Control
2024: Technical Committee on Verification of Autonomous Systems Member, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

Selected international presentations

2022: Invited Talk at Southeast University, China (Virtual)
2022: The Workshop on Formal Methods for ML-Enabled Autonomous Systems (Virtual)
2022: The 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Virtual)
2023: The 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Virtual)
2023: IFAC World Congress (Japan)
2024: IFAC SAFEPROCESS (Italy)

Supplementary

Stanford & Elsevier's Global Top 2% Scientists list for "Industrial Engineering & Automation" field in 2023. Member of the UKRI Agri-food for Net Zero Network+.

Additional information

Reviewer for journals and conferences: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, Systems & Control Letters, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Renewable Energy, International Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems, American Control Conference, IFAC SafeProcess, ICML, etc.
PC Member for AAAI-2022, AAAI-2023, AAAI-2025.
Stanford Top 2% Scientists List in “Industrial Engineering & Automation”: 2024, 2025

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