Tao Bian, Ph.D.

 

Experience

New York University, Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY

Research assistant   09/2012–05/2017

Education

New York University, Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering,   05/2017

• Dissertation Topic: Biologically inspired adaptive optimal control and learning
• Advisor: Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang

M.S. in Electrical Engineering,   05/2014

• Thesis Topic: Adaptive dynamic programming and optimal control of nonlinear nonaffine systems
• Advisor: Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

B.E. in Automation,   06/2012

Honors and Awards

• Alexander Hessel Award for the Best Ph.D. Dissertation in Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon school of engineering.   (05/2018)

• NYU Commencement Class Representative for Tandon School of Engineering.   (05/2017)

• Steve and Rosalind Hsia Best Biomedical Paper Award at the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA 2016), Guilin, China.   (06/2016)

• Dante Youla Award for graduate research excellence in Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon school of engineering.   (05/2016)

• Best Student Paper Award - Finalist at the 7st IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS) and Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM), Angkor Wat, Cambodia.   (07/2015)

• Theodor Tamir Award for Best MS Thesis in Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon school of engineering.   (05/2015)

• Excellent Bachelor Thesis in Hubei Province, China.   (06/2012)

Professional Service

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 01/2020–Present.
• Editorial board member, Frontiers in Control Engineering: AI and Machine Learning Control section, 10/2021–Present.
• Chair of regular session - Neural Networks for the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2016.
• Member of the conference program committee for the IEEE conferences on CIS & RAM, 2015.