INTENDED AREAS

• Supervisory Control
• Discrete Event Systems (DES); Hybrid Systems; Switching Systems
• Petri Nets; Finite State Automata, etc.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

1. Graduate: (Sep 2002 - Present)
   M.E. in Control Theory and Engineering, Mar. 2005 (expected)
   Institute of Advanced Process Control, Zhejiang University
   Supervisor: Prof. CHU Jian
   Courses:
   GPA: 3.90/4.0 Grade: 91.12/100
   Ranking: Top 1 among 90 students
   Honors:
   Sustentation Fund of Zhejiang University for attending 2004 ACC, 2004
   ZyXEL Scholarship, 2004
   Rockwell Automation Scholarship, 2003
   First Class Scholarship, 2003
2. Undergraduate: (Sep 1998 - Jul 2002)
   B.E. in Industrial Automation, Jul 2002
   Department of Control Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University
   Thesis: Research on the Deadlock of Petri nets
   Courses:
   Overall GPA: 3.83/4.0 Grade: 89.60/100.00
   Major GPA: 3.94/4.0 Grade: 92.55/100.00
   Ranking: Top 5% among 90 students
   Honors:
   Mixed Class Certificate of Honor, 2002
   Distinguished Graduate Award, 2002
   Best Undergraduate Thesis Award, 2002
   Second Class Scholarship and Excellent Student in three straight years since 1999
   Second Class Scholarship of Freshman, 1998

PUBLICATIONS

1. RU Yu, WU Weimin, SU Hongye and CHU Jian, "Supervisor Synthesis for Bounded Petri Nets with Polynomial Times", to be submitted to journals.
2. RU Yu, WU Weimin, SU Hongye and CHU Jian, "State Feedback Based Deadlock-free Supervisor Synthesis for Bounded Petri Nets", to appear in Proc. of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), Oct 2004.
3. RU Yu, WU Weimin, SU Hongye and CHU Jian, "Supervisor Synthesis for Bounded Petri Nets Based on a Transformation Function", Proc. of the 2004 American Control Conference (ACC), pp.4493-4498, Boston, Jun 2004.
4. RU Yu, WU Weimin, SU Hongye and CHU Jian, "Constraint Function Based Hierarchical Control of Discrete Event Systems", Proc. of the 5th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA), pp.1065-1069, Hangzhou, Jun 2004.
5. RU Yu, WU Weimin, SU Hongye and CHU Jian, "State Feedback Control of DES on the Finite Forbidden State Problem", Proc. of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), pp.5159-5164, New Orleans, Apr 2004.
6. RU Yu, WU Weimin, "Finite Capacity Place Method Based Deadlock Prevention Algorithm", Journal of System Simulation, Vol.15 Suppl., pp.59-62, Aug 2003 (in Chinese).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1. Presentations
   "Supervisor Synthesis for Bounded Petri Nets Based on a Transformation Function"
   Presented at the American Control Conference
   Boston, USA, Jun 30 - Jul 2, 2004
   "Constraint Function Based Hierarchical Control of Discrete Event Systems"
   Presented at the 5th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation
   Hangzhou, P.R. China, Jun 15-19, 2004
   "Finite Capacity Place Method Based Deadlock Prevention Algorithm"
   Presented at the 9th National Petri net Conference
   Hangzhou, P.R. China, Aug 22-24, 2003
2. Research Assistant, Sep 2002 - Present
   Institute of Advanced Process Control
   Review conference and journal papers
3. Teaching Assistant, Sep 2003 - Present
   College of Info Science and Engineering
   Co-supervisor in charge of a 36-student freshman class of Zhejiang University
4. Administration Assistant, Sep 2003 - Jul 2004
   Graduate School of Zhejiang University
   Maintain computers, networks and websites of Graduate School
5. Intern, Jul 2004 - Sep 2004
   UTStarcom Telecom CO., LTD
   Personal Access System Integration Test

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

1. Read, write, listen and speak English fluently
2. Read, write, listen and speak preliminary Japanese

STANDARD TESTS

1. GRE: Verbal 570 Quantitative 790 Analytical Writing 3.5
   Date: Nov 2002 Total: 1360
2. TOEFL: Listening 55 Grammar 67 Reading 62 TWE 4.5
   Date: May 2004 Total: 613

VOLUNTEER WORK

1. Coordinator of two WCICA Tutorial Lectures, June 13-14, 2004
   Coordinate and serve the lectures given by Prof. Xi-Ren Cao (Learning and optimization based on performance potentials) and Prof. Y. Ma (An introduction to the geometry of computer vision)
2. Volunteer of Hangzhou Holiday Travel, Aug 2003 ¨C Present
   A voluntary guide for sightseers of beautiful Hangzhou
3. Volunteer of String Theory Conference 2002, Aug 11-15, 2002
   Serve the registration and assist lodgings

TRAVEL

1. Hangzhou
2. Boston

FRIENDS

1. LUO Jiliang: PHD Candidate, Zhejiang University
2. HU Yongyou: PHD Candidate, Illinois Institute of Technology
3. Marian Iordache: Assistant Professor, LeTourneau University
4. ZUO Lei: PHD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology