Services by Professor Z. Qu

1. 1. Services on Campus:

     1.1 Administrative Experiences:

· Director/Chair of Electrical Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering, from 1999 to 2004.

· Assistant Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, from 1995 to 1997.

1.2     1.2 Chair of Committees at the Department, College, and University Levels:

· Promotion and tenure committee, School of EECS, August 2008 to August 2009

· Search Committee on Energy Systems, School of EECS, August 2008 to August 2009

· Signal and Systems Group, School of EECS, August 2005 to present

· ECE undergraduate affairs committee (August 1995 to August 1997)

· SUS Institutional Effectiveness Review committee for the EE graduate and undergraduate programs (1996|1997)

· ABET accreditation committee for the EE program (1995|1996)

· Controls/Power Discipline Committee (August 1993 to Sept 1995)

· ECE Administrative Committee (January 1995 to August 1995)

· 3-year strategical planning committee of the ECE department (1997|1999)

· ECE search committee for senior faculty (1998|1999)

· Committee of ECE curriculum review and development (1997|1999)

      Coordinator for several research/educational groups:

· Training and preparation of ABET 2008 visit

· Lead technical advisor for UCF Darpa Urban Challenge Team (UCF Knight) (2006-2007)

· Interdisciplinary Program (minor of engineering) in Intelligent Robotic Systems, College of Engineering and Computer Science (2005)

· ECE Information Systems group (1998)

· COE Focus Area on Material Handling and Automation for Flat Panel Display Industry (1998-1999)

· Director of Controls/Robotics Laboratory (1991 to present)

· Faculty Advisor for UCF IEEE Robotics Society and Club

      Member of various committees in department, college, and university:

· University undergraduate course review committee

· University scholarship committee

· ECE personnel committee

· ECE undergraduate affairs committee

· ECE graduate affairs committee

· COE ABET/EAC 2000 review committee

· COE research committee

· COE library committee

· ECE faculty search committee

· ECE administrative committee

· ECE computer usage committee

· ECE lab/space committee

2. 2. Professional Services:

     2.1 Professional Activities:

· IEEE senior member

· Panelist for National Science Foundation, 1996.

· Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, (Oct. 2007 --- present)

· Associate Editor, Automatica, (1999 - present)

· Associate Editor, International Journal of Robotics and Automation, (1995 - present)

· Associate Editor, Member of IEEE Conference Editorial Board, IEEE Control Society. (1994 - 1998)

· Member of the Program Committee for the 2009 American Control Conference.

· Chair of Organized Sessions, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA).

· Chair of Conference Activities, IEEE CSS TCAC (since 2006).

· Vice Chair for Invited Interactive Sessions and Member of Organizing Committee for 2007 IEEE Conference on Control Applications and for the first inaugural IEEE International Multi-Conference on Systems and Control.

· Member of IEEE Technical Committee on Aerospace Controls, IEEE CSS (since April 2006).

· Local Arrangements Chair for 2006 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation.

· Associate editor for the joint meetings of 2005 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and 2005 European Control Conference.

· Member of the International Organizing Committee for the 4th International Conference on Nonlinear Problems in Aviation and Aerospace, May 2002.

· Local Arrangements Chair for 2001 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

· Member of the International Program Committee for the ASCC'2000, the Third Asian Control Conference.

· Finance Chair for ISCAS'99, 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems.

· Member of the Program Committee for the 1998 American Control Conference.

· Registration chair for Southeastcon'98.

· Member of the Program Committee for the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

· Chair of the session ``Topics in Control" at the IFAC World Congress, July 2008.

· Organizer and principal lecturer of the workshop ``Control of Constrained Dynamical Systems through Local Communication/Sensing Networks" at the 2006 Chinese Control Conference, Harbin, August 7-10, 2006.

· Chair of the session "Nonlinear Systems II" at the 2006 American Control Conference.

· Chair of the session "Nonlinear Control" at the 2004 IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA/ISIC/CACSD).

· Chair of the session "Robust Estimation" at the 2003 IEEE International Conference On Decision and Control.

· Chair of the session "Intelligent Motion Control" at the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Intelligent Systems, and Signal Processing

· Plenary talk and keynote speaker, entitled "State Observation and Fault Tolerant Control for Nonlinear Uncertain Systems," at the 14th Chinese Process Control and 3rd Fault Diagnosis and Security Conference, 2003.

· Chair of the session \Systems with Nonlinear Dynamics" at the 2002 IEEE International Conference On Decision and Control.

· Plenary speaker at the International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA'02)

· Panelist, Special Session on Control and Automation in 21st Century: Opportunities and Challenges, 2002 International Conference on Control and Automation.

· Chair of the session "Learning and Adaptive Control" at the 2003 American Control Conference.

· Chair of the session "Adaptive Control for Electro-Mechanic Systems" at the 2003 American Control Conference.

· Co-Chair of the session "Nonlinear Adaptive Control" at the 2002 American Control Conference.

· Co-Chair of the session "Adaptive Output Feedback Control" at the 2002 American Control Conference.

· Chair of the session "Control of Robotic Systems I" at the 2000 American Control Conference.

· Chair of the session "ILC with New Application Areas" at the 2000 Asian Control Conference.

· Chair of the session "Robotics: Nonlinear Control" at the 1999 IEEE International Conference On Decision and Control.

· Chair of the session "Robotic Applications" at the 1999 IEEE Hong Kong Symposium on Robotics and Automation

· Chair of the session "Nonlinear Stabilization" at the 1997 IEEE International Conference On Decision and Control.

· Chair of the session "Power and Energy Systems" at the 1997 American Control Conference.

· Chair of the session "Power System Stabilizer" at the 1996 IFAC World Congress.

· Chair of the session "Adaptive Control Theory" at the 1996 IFAC World Congress.

· Chair of the session "Nonlinear Control II" at the 1995 IEEE International Conference On Decision and Control.

· Chair of the session "Nonlinear Control I" at the 1995 American Control Conference.

· Member of the Program Committee for the 1995 American Control Conference.

· Editor of the Proceeding of the 1995 IEEE National Telesystems Conference.

· Publication chairman for the 1995 IEEE National Telesystems Conference.

· Chair of the session "Robust Nonlinear Control" at the 1994 IEEE International Conference On Decision and Control.

· Chair of the session "Nonlinear Control" at the 1994 American Control Conference.

· Chair of the session "Nonlinear Control Theory" at the 1993 American Control Conference.

· Chair of the session "Control of Flexible Joint Manipulators" at the 1993 IEEE International Conference On Robotics and Automation.

· Organizer and Chair of the session "Control of Robotic Manipulators and Mechanical Systems" at the 1992 Symposium on Implicit and Nonlinear Systems

· Chair of the session "Nonlinear Systems" at the 1992 American Control Conference.

· Member of Technical Conference Committee for the Southcon/94 Technical Conference.

· Chair of the session "Controls" at the fifth Annual Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, 1992.

     2.2 Reviewer for the Following Journals and Major Conferences:

· Asian Journal of Control

· IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

· IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

· IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems

· IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

· IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

· IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

· Automatica, The Journal of IFAC

· Computer and Electrical Engineering, An International Journal

· Dynamics and Control, An International Journal

· IEE Proceedings, Part D - Control Theory and Applications

· Information Sciences, An International Journal

· Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, An International Journal

· International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing

· International Journal of Control

· The International Journal of Control Theory and Advanced Technology

· The International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems

· The International Journal of Systems Science

· The International Journal of Modeling and Simulation

· The International Journal of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing

· An International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation

· International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

· Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

· Journal of Robotic Systems

· Journal of Smart Materials and Structures

· Mathematics of Controls, Signals, and Systems

· Mechatronics, An International Journal

· Optimal Control: Applications & Methods

· Systems & Control Letters

· Transactions of ASME, Journal of Dynamical Systems, Measurement, and Control

· IEEE Control Systems Magazine

· American Control Conference

· ASME Annual Meeting

· IEEE Conference on Control Applications

· IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

· IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

     2.3 Proposal reviewer for the following agencies:

· National Science Foundation, Army Research Office.

· Book reviewer for the following publishers:

· IEEE Press, Prentice Hall, Marcel dekker, inc.

· International reviewer for Research Grants Council of Hong Kong and Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

3. Other Off-Campus Services:

· Director of Valencia Community College - University of Central Florida Automation Consortium (1996 to present).

· Founding principal and board member, Chinese School of Tomorrow - A weekend language school for Simplified Chinese and Pin-Yin. (1998 to present).

· Chairman of the Membership Development Committee, IEEE Orlando Section (1994 to 1995)

· Judge of the 42nd International Science and Engineering Fair, Orlando, FL., May 5-8, 1991.