Prof. José Ragot, Nancy-Université, France

Professor José RAGOT received the "Diplome d'Ingénieur" (Engineer's Degree) with specialization in control from the Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France) in 1969. Then, he joined the University of Nancy (France) where is received the "Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies" (Masters' Degree) in 1970. In 1973 he obtained the "Diplôme de Doctorat" (Ph. D. degree), a position as assistant professor at University Henri Poincaré in Nancy, and in 1980 the "Diplôme de Doctorat-es-Sciences". José Ragot moved up to professor in 1985 at the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL, National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine). Presently he is a Professor (with highest degree "Classe Exceptionnelle") at the "Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie" (french "Grande Ecole") where he has in charge the formation in automatic control.

José RAGOT is researcher in the "Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy" (CRAN, CNRS UMR 7039) where he was the head of the group "process diagnosis" during 12 years. His major research fields include data validation and reconciliation, process diagnosis, fault detection and isolation. A part of his activities is devoted to modelisation ans state estimation, adapted to process diagnosis and mainly in the field of multi-models.

He has successfully advised 63 Ph.D. and 3 H.D.R (French D. Sc.) and published about 500 refereed technical communications including 94 papers in international journals, 280 communications in international conferences, 4 books (Masson, Hermès, Lavoisier), 12 chapters in collective volumes. A list of these publications can be founded at http://perso.ensem.inpl- nancy.fr/Jose.Ragot/. Applications have been in various fields such as mineral and metallurgical processing, chemical engineering, water treatment, aerospace, environmental processes.

Since 1980, José RAGOT was the conductor of about 60 industrial research projects (with EDF, ELF, ARCELOR MITAL, AIRLOR, PECHINEY, ALSTOM, SNECMA, LAFARGE, DELPHI, RHÔNE POULENC, PSA, AIRBUS, THALES …). He was a member of more that 220 Ph. D. committees (France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Russia, Tunisia). He regularly contributes to national and international activities as a member of TC4 of IFAC, through conferences organisation, international program committee of conferences, reviewer in international journals and conferences, national expert for research project of the french CNRS, national expert for laboratory activities evaluation for the French Ministary of Research. He was invited at several universities as a lecturer : EPFL (Lauzane, Suiss), UTC (Compiègnes, France), UTT (Troyes, France), ENIT (Tunis, Tunisie), ENIM (Monastir, Tunisie), Jijel University (Annaba, Algérie), ESISAR (Valence, France), …

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Prof. Dingli Yu, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Professor Dingli Yu received B.Eng from Harbin Civil Engineering College, China in 1982, M.Sc from Jilin University of Technology (JUT), China in 1986, and the PhD from Coventry University, U.K. in 1995, all in Control Engineering. Dr. Yu was a lecturer at JUT from 1986 to 1990, a visiting researcher at University of Salford in 1991, a post-doctoral research fellow at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) from 1995 to 1998. He joined LJMU in 1998 as a senior lecturer and was promoted to a reader in 2003 and to Professor of Control Systems in 2006. He is the associate editor of two journals, International Journal of Modelling Identification and Control and International Journal of Information & Systems Sciences. He organized two special issues in 2006, “Fault Detection, Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control for Dynamic Systems” and “Intelligent Monitoring and Control for Industrial systems”. He serves as a member of the IFAC SAVEPROCESS Committee, and has been IPC member for many international conferences. His current research interests include fault detection and fault tolerant control of bilinear and nonlinear systems, adaptive neural networks and their control applications, model predictive control for chemical processes and automotive engines and real-time evaluations, in these areas he has published more than 160 journal and conference papers.

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Prof. Toshiharu Sugie, Kyoto University, Japan

Professor Toshiharu Sugie received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in engineering form Kyoto University, Japan, in 1976, 1978 and 1985, respectively. Since 1998, he has been Professor at the Department of Systems Science, Kyoto University. He was a research member of Musashino Electric Communication Laboratory in Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, Japan (1978-1980), a research associate at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Osaka Prefecture (1984-1988), and an associate professor at the Department of Applied Systems Science, Kyoto University (1988-1997).

His research interests are in robust control, nonlinear control, identification for control, and their application to mechanical systems. He published a few books, one of which won the Best Book Award from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan (SICE) in 1994. He also received Best Paper Awards from SICE in 1994, 2000, 2003 and 2007, and from the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, Japan in 1991 and 1998.

Dr. Sugie is an Editor of Automatica. He served as an Associate Editor of Asian Journal of Control (1998-2005) and International Journal of Systems Science (2003-2005). He is an IEEE Fellow.

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Prof. Hong Wang and Mr. Q. Liu, The Northeastern University, China, The Univ. of Manchester, UK

Professor Hong Wang received the BSc, MEng and PhD degrees from Huainan University of Mining Engineering (AHUST) and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in P. R. China 1982, 1984 and 1987, respectively. He then worked as a postdoc at Salford, Brunel and Southampton Universities between 1988 and 1992. He joined UMIST in 1992 and has been the Professor in Process Control since April, 2002. Between 2004 and 2007 he was the director of the Control Systems Centre of the University of Manchester.

Professor Wang originated the work on stochastic distribution control, where the main purpose of control input design is to make the shape of the output probability density functions to follow a targeted function. He is the leading author of three books and has published over 200 papers in international journals and conferences (http://www.eee.manchester.ac.uk). Professor Wang is a Fellow of IET and InstMC, he is the editorial board member for nine international journals and member of three (International Federation on Automatic Control) IFAC Technical Cttees. Professor Wang is also a member of the executive Cttee of UKACC and has been a Changjiang visiting professor with Northeastern University (China), Beijing University of Aeronautics and Austronautics, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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