Hong Chen (engineer)

The native form of this personal name is Chen Hong. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Hong Chen (Chinese: 陈虹, born 1963^[1]) is a Chinese engineer specializing in control theory and its application to automotive control systems and automated driving.^[2][3] She is a distinguished professor of control science and engineering at Tongji University in Shanghai,^[4], dean of the Tongji University College of Electronic and Information Engineering, and holder of the Porsche Chair at Tongji University.^[2]

Education and career

Chen was a student of process control at Zhejiang University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1983 and a master's degree in 1986.^[4][5] In 1986, she joined the faculty of Jilin University.^[4] She went to the University of Stuttgart in Germany for doctoral study in system dynamics and control engineering, beginning in 1993, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1997.^[4][5] Her dissertation, Stability and Robustness Considerations in Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, was supervised by Frank Allgöwer [de].^[6]

She returned to Jilin in 1999 as a professor, later becoming Tang Aoqing Professor and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control.^[4] In 2019 she moved to Tongji University as a distinguished professor; she was named as the dean of the College of Electronic and Information Engineering in 2020.^[5]

Recognition

Chen was elected as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2023 class of fellows, "for contributions to predictive control and applications in automotive systems".^[3]