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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ORCID iDhttps://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, Imperial College London.
  • 2024: Visiting Scientist, ABE Group, Wageningen University & Research.
  • 2023: Visiting Professor, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • 2017 - 2022: Research Associate, 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

Find the lisit of publications here! 

Publications

List by: Type | Date

Jump to: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022
Number of items: 28.

2025

Kobilov, A. and Lan, J. (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, C., Lan, J. , Wang, W., Benders, J., Xiao, Y. and van Henten, E. (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)

Lin, Z. , Lan, J. , Anagnostopoulos, C. , Tian, Z. and Flynn, D. (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, Z. , Zhang, Q., Tian, Z., Yu, P., Ye, Z., Zhuang, H. and Lan, J. (2025) SLAM2: Simultaneous Localization and Multimode Mapping for indoor dynamic environments. Pattern Recognition, 158, 111054. (doi: 10.1016/j.patcog.2024.111054)

2024

Lan, J. (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, J. (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, Y., Liu, C., Wang, X., Lan, J. and Ren, X. (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, Z. , Tian, Z., Zhang, Q., Zhuang, H. and Lan, J. (2024) Enhanced visual SLAM for collision-free driving with lightweight autonomous cars. Sensors, 24(19), 6258. (doi: 10.3390/s24196258)

Zhang, N., Wang, J., Li, Y., Lan, J. and Lan, S. (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)

Zhan, S., Chen, Y., Lan, J. and Zhang, Y. (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, Z. , Zhang, Q., Tian, Z., Yu, P. and Lan, J. (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, Q., Liu, C., Lan, J. , Ren, X., Meng, Y. and Wang, X. (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, W., Lan, J. and Mason, B. (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)

Hu, H., Lan, J. and Liu, C. (2024) Real-Time Safe Control of Neural Network Dynamic Models with Sound Approximation. In: 6th Annual Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference, Oxford, England, 15-17 Jul 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Lan, J. , Zhan, S., Patton, R. and Zhao, X. (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, (Accepted for Publication)

Jiang, J., Lan, J. , Leofante, F., Rago, A. and Toni, F. (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, J. and Zhao, D. (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, H., Zhao, D. , Lan, J. , Zhao, W., Tian, D., Li, D., Zhou, Q. and Song, K. (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, J. , Bruckner, B. and Lomuscio, A. (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, J. , Zheng, Y. and Lomuscio, A. (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, J. , Zhao, D. and Tian, D. (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, J. , Zhao, D. and Tian, D. (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, J., Zhao, D. , Lan, J. , Xue, S., Zhao, W., Tian, D., Zhou, Q. and Song, K. (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, J., Zhao, D. , Jiang, J., Lan, J. , Mason, B., Tian, D. and Li, L. (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, J. (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, H., Zhao, D. , Lan, J. , Zhao, W., Tian, D. and Zhang, Y. (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

Lan, J. and Patton, R. (2022) An iterative strategy for robust integration of fault estimation and fault-tolerant control. Automatica, 145, 110556. (doi: 10.1016/j.automatica.2022.110556)

Yang, J., Zhao, D. , Jiang, J., Lan, J. and Li, L. (2022) An ecological driving strategy for heterogeneous platoon of connected and automated vehicles. Journal of Automotive Safety and Energy, (Accepted for Publication)

This list was generated on Fri May 16 13:23:40 2025 BST.
Jump to: Articles | Conference Proceedings
Number of items: 28.

Articles

Lin, Z. , Zhang, Q., Tian, Z., Yu, P., Ye, Z., Zhuang, H. and Lan, J. (2025) SLAM2: Simultaneous Localization and Multimode Mapping for indoor dynamic environments. Pattern Recognition, 158, 111054. (doi: 10.1016/j.patcog.2024.111054)

Lan, J. (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, J. (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, Y., Liu, C., Wang, X., Lan, J. and Ren, X. (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, Z. , Tian, Z., Zhang, Q., Zhuang, H. and Lan, J. (2024) Enhanced visual SLAM for collision-free driving with lightweight autonomous cars. Sensors, 24(19), 6258. (doi: 10.3390/s24196258)

Zhang, N., Wang, J., Li, Y., Lan, J. and Lan, S. (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)

Lin, Z. , Zhang, Q., Tian, Z., Yu, P. and Lan, J. (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, Q., Liu, C., Lan, J. , Ren, X., Meng, Y. and Wang, X. (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, W., Lan, J. and Mason, B. (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)

Lan, J. and Zhao, D. (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, H., Zhao, D. , Lan, J. , Zhao, W., Tian, D., Li, D., Zhou, Q. and Song, K. (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, J. , Zhao, D. and Tian, D. (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, J. , Zhao, D. and Tian, D. (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, J., Zhao, D. , Lan, J. , Xue, S., Zhao, W., Tian, D., Zhou, Q. and Song, K. (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, J., Zhao, D. , Jiang, J., Lan, J. , Mason, B., Tian, D. and Li, L. (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, J. and Patton, R. (2022) An iterative strategy for robust integration of fault estimation and fault-tolerant control. Automatica, 145, 110556. (doi: 10.1016/j.automatica.2022.110556)

Yang, J., Zhao, D. , Jiang, J., Lan, J. and Li, L. (2022) An ecological driving strategy for heterogeneous platoon of connected and automated vehicles. Journal of Automotive Safety and Energy, (Accepted for Publication)

Conference Proceedings

Kobilov, A. and Lan, J. (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, C., Lan, J. , Wang, W., Benders, J., Xiao, Y. and van Henten, E. (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)

Lin, Z. , Lan, J. , Anagnostopoulos, C. , Tian, Z. and Flynn, D. (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)

Zhan, S., Chen, Y., Lan, J. and Zhang, Y. (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)

Hu, H., Lan, J. and Liu, C. (2024) Real-Time Safe Control of Neural Network Dynamic Models with Sound Approximation. In: 6th Annual Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference, Oxford, England, 15-17 Jul 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Lan, J. , Zhan, S., Patton, R. and Zhao, X. (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, (Accepted for Publication)

Jiang, J., Lan, J. , Leofante, F., Rago, A. and Toni, F. (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.

Lan, J. , Bruckner, B. and Lomuscio, A. (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, J. , Zheng, Y. and Lomuscio, A. (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, J. (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, H., Zhao, D. , Lan, J. , Zhao, W., Tian, D. and Zhang, Y. (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)

This list was generated on Fri May 16 13:23:40 2025 BST.

Grants

  • 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:

Current PhD scholarship opportunities:

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
    Unravelling the Mystery: A Causal-Based Approach to Task Failure Explanation

Alumni:

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

MSc Control Engineering:

  • Control Systems Analysis and Design M (ENG5314) 
  • Control M (ENG5022, Continuous system part)

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

  1. 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.
  2. PC Member for AAAI-2022, AAAI-2023.

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