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(Samuel) Qing-Shan Jia, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Curriculum Vitae Center for Intelligent and Networked Systems (CFINS), Department of Automation, Tsinghua University

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(Samuel) Qing-Shan Jia

Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Tel.: +86-10-62773006, Fax: +86-10-62796115, Email: [email protected]

Professional Experiences

2016.07-present Associate Dean, Global Innovation eXchange (GIX), Tsinghua University, China.

2015.11-present Program Director, Global Innovation eXchange (GIX), Tsinghua University,

China.

2017.09-2018.01 Associate Head for Academics, Department of Automation, Tsinghua

University, China.

2015.11-2017.08 Associate Head for Academics & Finance, Department of Automation,

Tsinghua University, China.

2010.12-present Associate Professor, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China.

2006.08-2010.11 Assistant Professor, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China.

Visiting Positions

2013.03-2013.08 Visiting Associate Professor, Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Host by Dimitri P. Bertsekas.

2010.04-2010.06 Visiting Assistant Professor,

Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering,

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Host by Xi-Ren Cao.

2006.08-2007.02 Postdoc, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences,

Harvard University. Host by Yu-Chi Ho.

Education

2006 Ph.D. in Control Science and Engineering Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

2002 B. S. in Automatic Control Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Research Interest

Develop optimization-based control theory and methodology for large-scale complex systems

through data-driven, statistical, and computational analysis with applications to energy systems,

manufacturing systems, building systems, evacuation guidance systems, robotic systems, biological

systems, cyber physical systems, and Internet of Things.

Awards, Honors, and Societies

2017.11 K.D. Tocher Medal of the Operational Research Society for the Best Paper in Journal of

Simulation 2015/2016, “Simulation optimization in the era of Industrial 4.0 and the

Industrial Internet,” by J. Xu, E. Huang, L. Hsieh, L. H. Lee, Q.-S. Jia, and C.-H. Chen.

2015.11 Natural Science Award of Chinese Association of Automation, 1st Class, to project

“Security Constrained Optimization Methods for Scheduling Networked Systems with

Applications to Energy and Power Systems,” by X. Guan, Q. Zhai, J. Wu, F. Gao, Y. Xu, Q.


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Zhao, Q.-S. Jia, and Z. Xu.

2015.08 Best Paper Award, the 11th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and

Engineering (CASE2015), to paper “Multi-timescale Optimization between Distributed

Wind Generators and Electric Vehicles in Microgrid,” by Q. Huang, Q.-S. Jia, and X.

Guan, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

2014.07 Best Paper in Supply Chain, the 11th World Congress on Intelligent Control and

Automation (WCICA2014), to paper “Event-Based Optimization for Stochastic Matching

EV Charging Load with Uncertain Renewable Energy,” by Q. Huang, Q.-S. Jia, L. Xia, and

X. Guan, in Shenyang, China.

2014.01 2013 IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Outstanding Reviewer.

2013.10 Natural Science Award of Ministry of Education of China, 2nd Class, to project “Event-

based Modeling and Control of Networked Dynamic Systems,” by Q. Zhao, Q.-S. Jia, L.

Xia, X. Chen, and D. Zheng.

2012 Excellent Young Scholar Award of National Natural Science Foundation of China

(equivalent to NSF Career Award of USA)

2011.11 Excellent Young Scholar Award of Tsinghua University

2011.10 Excellent Mentor Service Award of Tsinghua University, 1st Class

2011.01 2010 IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Outstanding Reviewer

2010.08 Best Application Paper Award Finalist, the 6th IEEE Conference on Automation Science

and Engineering (CASE2010), to paper “An Integrated Control of Shading Blinds, Natural

Ventilation and HVAC Systems for Energy Saving and Human Comfort,” by B. Sun, P.

Luh, Q.-S. Jia, Z. Jiang, F. Wang, and C. Song, in Toronto, Canada

2009 National Natural Science Award of China, 2nd Class, to project “Theories and Methods

for the Optimization of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems,” by X.-R. Cao, Q.-C. Zhao, X.

Chen, and Q.-S. Jia

2008 Finalist for the 2008 National Best PhD Thesis Award

IEEE Senior Member of Control Systems Society, Robotics and Automation Society

Member of ACM and INFORMS

Publications

A complete list of my publications is available for download from my website

http://cfins.au.tsinghua.edu.cn/personalhg/jiaqingshan

Books

[B1] Cheng, P., Jia, Q.-S., and Cao, J., Manual for Experiments of Computer Network and

Applications, Tsinghua University Press, May 2017. (in Chinese)

[B2] Guan, X., Zhao, Q., Jia, Q.-S., Wu, J., and Liu, T., Cyber-Physical Energy Systems, China Science

Press, 2016. (in Chinese)

[B3] Bertsekas, D. P., Nonlinear Programming, Athena Scientific, 2nd Edition, 1999, translated into

Chinese by Song, S., Zhang, Y., and Jia, Q.-S., Tsinghua University Press, 2014.

[B4] Chen, C.-H., Jia, Q.-S., and Lee, L. H., Editors, Stochastic Simulation Optimization for Discrete

Event Systems – Perturbation Analysis, Ordinal Optimization and Beyond, Singapore: World

Scientific, 2013. ISBN 978-9814513005.


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[B5] Ho, Y.-C., Zhao, Q.-C., and Jia, Q.-S., Ordinal Optimization: Soft Optimization for Hard Problems,

New York, NY: Springer, 2007. ISBN-10: 0387372326, ISBN-13: 978-0-387-37232-7.

Refereed Journal Papers

[J1] Jia, Q.-S. and Wu, J., “On distributed event-based optimization for shared economy in cyber-

physical energy systems,” Science China Information Sciences, to appear.

[J2] Yang, Y., Jia, Q.-S., Guan, X., Zhang, X., Qiu, Z., and Deconinck, G., “Decentralized EV-based

charging optimization with building integrated wind energy,” IEEE Transactions on

Automation Science and Engineering, to appear.

[J3] Huang, G., Wang, J., and Jia, Q.-S., “Event-driven optimal control of central air-conditioning

systems: Event-space establishment,” Science and Technology for the Built Environment, to

appear.

[J4] Yang, Y., Jia, Q.-S., Deconinck, G., Guan, X., Qiu, Z., and Hu, Z., “Distributed coordination of EV

charging with renewable energy in a microgrid of buildings,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid,

to appear. DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2017.2707103.

[J5] Zhang, Y. and Jia, Q.-S., “A simulation based policy improvement method for joint-operation

of building microgrids with distributed solar power and battery,” IEEE Transactions on Smart

Grid, to appear. DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2017.2707098.

[J6] Jia, Q.-S., Wu, J., Wu, Z., and Guan, X., “Event-based HVAC Control – A complexity-based

approach,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp.

1909-1919, Oct. 2018.

[J7] Huang, Q., Jia, Q.-S., and Guan, X., “Robust scheduling of EV charging load with uncertain wind

power integration,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 1043-1054, Mar. 2018.

[J8] Jia, Q.-S., Yang, Y., Xia, L., and Guan, X., “A tutorial on event-based optimization with

application in energy Internet,” Control Theory and Application, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 32-40, Jan.

2018. (in Chinese)

[J9] Zhang, Y. and Jia, Q.-S., “Operational optimization for microgrid of buildings with distributed

solar power and battery,” Asian Journal of Control, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 996-1008, May 2017.

[J10] Huang, Q., Jia, Q.-S., and Guan, X., “A multi-timescale and bi-level coordination approach for

matching uncertain wind supply with EV charging demand,” IEEE Transactions on Automation

Science and Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 694-704, Apr. 2017.

[J11] Xu, J., Huang, E., Hsieh, L., Lee, L. H., Jia, Q.-S., and Chen, C.-H., “Simulation optimization in

the era of Industrial 4.0 and the Industrial Internet,” Journal of Simulation, Vol. 10, pp. 310-

320, Oct. 2016.

[J12] Xu, X., Jia, Q.-S., Xu, Z., Zhang, B., and Guan, X., “On joint control of heating, ventilation, and

air conditioning and natural ventilation in a meeting room for energy saving,” Asian Journal

of Control, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 1-24, Sept. 2016.

[J13] Wu, Z., Jia, Q.-S., and Guan, X., “Optimal control of multi-room HVAC system: An event-based

approach,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 662-669, Mar.

2016.

[J14] Jia, Q.-S., Wang, H., Lei, Y., Zhao, Q., and Guan, X., “A decentralized stay-time based occupant

distribution estimation method for buildings,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and

Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 1482-1491, Oct. 2015.

[J15] Sun, B., Luh, P. B., Jia, Q.-S., and Yan, B., “Event-based optimization within the Lagrangian


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relaxation framework for energy savings in HVAC systems,” IEEE Transactions on Automation

Science and Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 1396-1406, Oct. 2015.

[J16] Huang, Q., Jia, Q.-S., Qiu, Z., Guan, X., and Deconinck, G., “Matching EV charging load with

uncertain wind: A simulation-based policy improvement approach,” IEEE Transactions on

Smart Grid, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 1425-1433, May 2015.

[J17] Xia, L. and Jia, Q.-S., “Parameterized Markov decision process and its application to service

rate control,” Automatica, Vol. 54, pp. 29-35, Apr. 2015.

[J18] Xu, Z., Jia, Q.-S., and Guan, X., “Supply demand coordination for building energy saving:

Explore the soft comfort,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 12,

No. 2, pp. 656-665, Apr. 2015.

[J19] Wang, H.-T., Jia, Q.-S., Song, C., Yuan, R., and Guan, X., “Building occupant level estimation

based on heterogeneous information fusion,” Information Sciences, Vol. 272, pp. 145-157, Jul.

2014.

[J20] Xia, L., Jia, Q.-S., and Cao, X.-R., “A tutorial on event-based optimization – A new optimization

framework,” Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 103-

132, Jun. 2014.

[J21] Sun, B., Luh, P. B., Jia, Q.-S., O’Neill, Z., and Song, F., “Building energy doctors: An SPC and

Kalman filter-based method for system-level fault detection in HVAC systems,” IEEE

Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 215-229, Jan. 2014.

[J22] Wang, H., Zhao, Q., Guan, X., and Jia, Q.-S., “Reconfiguring networked infrastructures by

adding wireless communication capabilities to selected nodes,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless

Communications, Vol. 12, No. 9, pp. 4518-4528, Sept. 2013.

[J23] Xu, Z., Jia, Q.-S., Guan, X., and Shen, J., “Smart management of multiple energy systems in

automotive painting shop,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 10,

No. 3, pp. 603-614, Jul. 2013.

[J24] Sun, B., Luh, P. B., Jia, Q.-S., Jiang, Z., Wang, F., and Song, C., “Building energy management:

Integrated control of active and passive heating, cooling, lighting, shading and ventilation

systems,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 588-

602, Jul. 2013.

[J25] Jia, Q.-S., Zhou, E., and Chen, C.-H., “Efficient computing budget allocation for finding simplest

good designs,” IIE Transactions, Vol. 45, No. 7, pp. 736-750, Jul. 2013.

[J26] Wu, J., Jia, Q.-S., Johansson, K. H., and Shi, L., “Event-based sensor data scheduling: Trade-off

between communication rate and estimation quality,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,

Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 1041-1046, Apr. 2013.

[J27] Jia, Q.-S., “Efficient computing budget allocation for simulation-based optimization with

stochastic simulation time,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 539-

544, Feb. 2013.

[J28] Jia, Q.-S., “Efficient computing budget allocation for simulation-based policy improvement,”

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 342-352, Apr.

2012.

[J29] Jia, Q.-S., Shen, J., Xu, Z., and Guan, X., “Simulation-based policy improvement for energy

management in commercial office buildings,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Vol. 3, No. 4,

pp. 2211-2223, Dec. 2012.

[J30] Xu, Z., Guan, X., Jia, Q.-S., Wu, J., Wang, D., and Chen, S., “Performance analysis and


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comparison on storage devices for smart building energy management,” IEEE Transactions on

Smart Grid, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 2136-2147, Dec. 2012.

[J31] Li, L, Jia, Q.-S., Wang, H., Yuan, R., and Guan, X., “A systematic method for network topology

reconfiguration with limited link additions,” Journal of Network and Computer Applications,

Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 1979-1989, Nov. 2012.

[J32] Li, L., Jia, Q.-S., Guan, X., and Wang, H., “Enhancing the robustness and efficiency of scale-free

network with limited link addition,” KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems,

Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 1333-1353, May 2012.

[J33] Jia, Q.-S., Shi, L., Mo, Y., and Sinopoli, B., “On optimal partial broadcasting of wireless sensor

networks for Kalman filtering,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 57, No. 3, pp.

715-721, Mar. 2012.

[J34] Jia, Q.-S., “On solving event-based optimization with average reward over infinite stages,” IEEE

Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 56, No. 12, pp. 2912-2917, Dec. 2011.

[J35] Jia, Q.-S., “An adaptive sampling algorithm for simulation-based optimization with descriptive

complexity preference,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 8, No.

4, pp. 720-731, Oct. 2011.

[J36] Li, J., Jia, Q.-S., Guan, X., and Chen, X., “Tracking a moving object via a sensor network with a

partial information broadcasting scheme,” Information Sciences, Vol. 181, No. 20, pp. 4733-

4753, Oct. 2011.

[J37] Jia, Q.-S., “On solving optimal policies for finite-stage event-based optimization,” IEEE

Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 56, No. 9, pp. 2195-2200, Sept. 2011.

[J38] Shi, L., Jia, Q.-S., Mo, Y., and Sinopoli, B., “Sensor scheduling over a packet-delaying network,”

Automatica, Vol. 47, No. 5, pp. 1089-1092, May 2011.

[J39] Jia, Q.-S., “On state aggregation to approximate complex value functions in large-scale Markov

decision processes,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 333-344, Feb.

2011.

[J40] Guan, X., Xu, Z., and Jia, Q.-S., “Energy-efficient buildings facilitated by microgrid,” IEEE

Transactions on Smart Grid, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 243-252, Dec. 2010.

[J41] Shen, Z., Zhao, Q.C., and Jia, Q.-S., “Quantifying heuristics in the ordinal optimization

framework,” Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, Vol. 20, pp. 441-471,

Dec. 2010.

[J42] Zhao, Y., Chen, X., Jia, Q.-S., Guan, X., Zhang, S., and Jiang, Y., “Long-term scheduling for

cascaded hydro energy systems with annual water consumption and release constraints,” IEEE

Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 969-976, Oct. 2010.

[J43] Jia, Q.-S., “A structural property of optimal policies for multi-component maintenance

problems,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 677-

680, Jul. 2010.

[J44] Jia, Q.-S. and Zhao, Q.-C., “Strategy optimization for controlled Markov process with

descriptive complexity constraint,” Science in China Series F, Vol. 52, No. 11, pp. 1993-2005,

Nov. 2009.

[J45] Shen, Z., Zhao, Q.C., Jia, Q.-S., and Sun, J., “Universal alignment probability revisited,” Journal

of Optimization Theory and Applications, Vol. 141, No. 2, 371-376, May 2009.

[J46] Xia, L., Zhao, Q.C., and Jia, Q.-S., “A structure property of optimal policies for maintenance

problems with safety-critical components,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and


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Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 519-531, Jul. 2008.

[J47] Zhao, Q.-C., Jia, Q.-S., and Cao, Y., "How much spare capacity is necessary for the security of

resource networks?" Physica A: Statistical and Theoretical Physics, Vol. 373, pp. 861-873, Jan.

2007.

[J48] Ho, Y.-C., Jia, Q.-S., and Zhao, Q.-C., "The equivalence between ordinal optimization in

deterministic complex problems and in stochastic simulation problems," Discrete Event

Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, Vol. 16, pp. 405-411, Sept. 2006.

[J49] Jia, Q.-S., Ho, Y.-C., and Zhao, Q.-C., "Comparison of selection rules for ordinal optimization,"

Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Vol. 43, No. 9-10, pp. 1150-1171, May 2006.

[J50] Zhao, Q.C., Ho, Y.C., and Jia, Q.S., "Vector ordinal optimization," Journal of Optimization

Theory and Applications, Vol. 125, No. 2, pp. 259-274, May 2005.

Refereed Conference Papers

[C1] Wu, J. and Jia, Q.-S., “A Q-learning method for scheduling shared EVs under uncertain user

demand and wind power supply,” the 2nd IEEE Conference on Control Technology and

Applications, Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug. 21-24, 2018.

[C2] Jia, Q.-S. and Wu, J., “On distributed optimization for supply demand coordination in cyber

physical energy systems,” the 14th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and

Engineering, Munich, Germany, Aug. 20-24, 2018.

[C3] Wu, J. and Jia, Q.-S., “On state aggregation in a class of cyber physical energy systems,” the

37th Chinese Control Conference, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Jul. 25-27, 2018.

[C4] Xu, Z., Jia, Q.-S., and Guan, X., “Cyber-physical-system-based optimization for multiple energy

systems with imperfect state-of-charge knowledge of storage devices,” the 37th Chinese

Control Conference, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Jul. 25-27, 2018.

[C5] Tian, M.-Z., Jia, Q.-S., and Zhao, L., “Application of PSO based on ordinal optimization in flight

path planning,” the 37th Chinese Control Conference, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Jul. 25-27, 2018.

(in Chinese)

[C6] Jia, Q.-S., “On supply demand coordination in vehicle-to-grid – A brief literature review,” the

33rd Youth Academic Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Automation (YAC2018),

Nanjing, China, May 18-20, 2018.

[C7] Yang, Y., Jia, Q.-S., and Guan, X., “Stochastic coordination of aggregated electric vehicle

charging with on-site wind power at multiple buildings,” the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision

and Control (CDC2017), Dec. 12-15, 2017.

[C8] Zhang, X., Yan, B., Shi, W., Malkawi, A., Jia, Q.-S., and Li, N., “Community-level geothermal

heat pump system management via an aggregation-disaggregation framework,” the 56th IEEE

Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2017), Dec. 12-15, 2017.

[C9] Tang, J.-X., Jia, Q.-S., Liu, Z., Ding, N., Liu, X.-D., and Zhang, H., “Initial location assignment and

dynamic reassignment optimization for urban evacuation guiders,” 2017 Chinese Automation

Congress (CAC2017), Oct. 20-22, 2017.

[C10] Wu, J. and Jia, Q.-S., “An ordinal optimization based method for selecting events,” 2017

Chinese Automation Congress (CAC2017), Oct. 20-22, 2017.

[C11] Xu, K., Wu, R.-B., and Jia, Q.-S., “Design of diamond ring resonator by ordinal

optimization,” 2017 Chinese Automation Congress (CAC2017), Oct. 20-22, 2017.

[C12]Liu, Z., Jia, Q.-S., and Zhang, H., “An evacuation guider location optimization method based


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on road network centrality measures,” the 13th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and

Engineering, Xi’an, China, Aug. 20-23, 2017.

[C13]Jiang, Z., Jia, Q.-S., and Guan, X., “Optimization of sensor location for improving wind power

prediction accuracy,” the 13th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Xi’an,

China, Aug. 20-23, 2017.

[C14]Long, T., Tang, J.-X., and Jia, Q.-S., “Multi-scale event-based optimization for matching

uncertain wind supply with EV charging demand,” the 13th IEEE Conference on Automation

Science and Engineering, Xi’an, China, Aug. 20-23, 2017.

[C15]Zhang, C. and Jia, Q.-S., “An occupancy distribution estimation method using the surveillance

cameras in buildings,” the 13th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Xi’an,

China, Aug. 20-23, 2017.

[C16]Jiang, Z., Jia, Q.-S., and Guan, X., “Review of wind power forecasting methods: From multi-

spatial and temporal perspective,” the 36th Chinese Control Conference, Dalian, China, Jul. 26-

28, 2017.

[C17]Yang, Y., Jia, Q.-S., and Guan, X., “The joint scheduling of EV charging load with building

mounted wind power using simulation-based policy improvement,” the 2016 International

Symposium on Flexible Automation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Aug. 1-3, 2016.

[C18]Huang, Q., Jia, Q.-S., and Guan, X., “Coordinating EV charging demand with wind supply in a

bi-level energy dispatch framework,” the 2016 American Control Conference, Boston, MA, USA,

Jul. 6-8, 2016.

[C19]Lang, Z., Jia, Q.-S., and Feng, X., “A three-level human movement model in the whole building

scale,” the 12th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA2016),

Kathmandu, Nepal, Jun. 1-3, 2016.

[C20]Zhang, C. and Jia, Q.-S., “A review of occupant behavior models in residential building: Sensing,

modeling, and prediction,” the 28th Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC2016),

Yinchuan, China, May 28-30, 2016.

[C21]Yang, Y., Jia, Q.-S., and Guan, X., “Improving the prediction accuracy of building energy

consumption using location of occupant – a case study,” the 2016 IEEE International

Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT2016), Taipei, China, Mar. 14-17, 2016.

[C22]Huang, Q., Jia, Q.-S., and Guan, X., “A review of EV load scheduling with wind power

integration,” the 17th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID2015), Beijing, China,

Oct. 19-21, 2015.

[C23]Lang, Z. and Jia, Q.-S., “Event based parallel simulation on a sensing system for occupant

distribution estimation in the whole building scale,” the 1st International Symposium on

Sustainable Human-Building Ecosystems, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, Oct. 4-7, 2015.

[C24]Wu, Z., Jia, Q.-S., and Guan, X., “Local and global event-based optimization: Performance and

complexity,” Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering

(CASE2015), Gothenburg, Sweden, Aug. 24-27, 2015, pp. 1375-1380.

[C25]Huang, Q., Jia, Q.-S., and Guan, X., “Multi-timescale optimization between distributed wind

generators and electric vehicles in microgrid,” Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Conference on

Automation Science and Engineering (CASE2015), Gothenburg, Sweden, Aug. 24-27, 2015, pp.

671-676.

[C26]Zhang, Y. and Jia, Q.-S., “Optimal operation for energy-efficient building micro-grid,”

Proceedings of the 2015 Chinese Control Conference (CCC2015), Hangzhou, China, July 24-28,


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2015, pp. 8936-8940.

[C27]Huang, Q., Jia, Q.-S., and Guan, X., “EV charging load scheduling with high wind power

penetration: A robust shortest path approach,” Proceedings of the 2015 American Control

Conference (ACC2015), Chicago, IL, USA, July 1-3, 2015, pp. 2765-2770.

[C28]Zhang, Y. and Jia, Q.-S., “Optimal storage battery scheduling for energy-efficient buildings in a

microgrid,” Proceedings of the 27th Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC2015),

Qingdao, China, May 23-25, 2015, pp. 5540-5545.

[C29]Lang, Z., Jia, Q.-S., Lei, Y., and Xie, X., “A dual-infrared sensing system for occupant distribution

estimation in buildings,” Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and

Engineering (CASE2014), Taipei, Aug. 18-22, 2014, pp. 960-965.

[C30]Xu, Z., Jia, Q.-S., Guan, X., and Xie, X., “A new method to solve large-scale building energy

management for energy saving,” the 2014 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and

Engineering (CASE2014), Taipei, Aug. 18-22, 2014, pp. 940-945.

[C31]Huang, Q., Jia, Q.-S., Xia, L., Guan, X., and Xie, X., “EV charging load scheduling following

uncertain renewable energy supply by stochastic matching,” Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE

International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE2014), Taipei, Aug. 18-

22, 2014, pp. 137-142.

[C32]Jia, Q.-S., “A brief tutorial on event-based optimization with applications in smart buildings,”

Proceedings of the 11th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA2014),

June 29 – July 4, 2014, Shenyang, China, pp. 1292-1298.

[C33]Huang, Q., Jia, Q.-S., Xia, L., and Guan, X., “Event-based optimization for stochastic matching

EV charging load with uncertain renewable energy,” Proceedings of the 11th World Congress

on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA2014), June 29 – July 4, 2014, Shenyang, China,

pp. 794-799.

[C34]Zhang, Y., Jia, Q.-S., and Xia, L., “Weather-forecast based optimal unit scheduling with solar

power integration,” Proceedings of the 33rd Chinese Control Conference (CCC2014), Nanjing,

China, July 28-30, 2014, pp. 6941-6946.

[C35]Wu, Z., Jia, Q.-S., and Guan, X., “Event-based optimization for multi-room HVAC system,”

Proceedings of the 33rd Chinese Control Conference (CCC2014), Nanjing, China, July 28-30,

2014, pp. 3927-3932.

[C36]Wu, D., Jia, Q.-S., and Chen, C.-H., “Sample path sharing in simulation-based policy

improvement,” Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and

Automation (ICRA2014), Hong Kong, May 31-June 7, 2014, pp. 3291-3296.

[C37]Weekly, K., Zou, H., Xie, L., Jia, Q.-S., and Bayen, A. M., “Indoor occupant positioning system

using active RFID deployment and particle filters,” Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International

Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, (IEEE DCOSS 2014), Marina Del Rey,

CA, USA, May 26-28, 2014, pp. 35-42.

[C38]Lei, Y., Jia, Q.-S., and Xia, L., “Local event-based sensor activation for occupant distribution

estimation in buildings,” Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Networking,

Sensing and Control (ICNSC2015), Miami, FL, USA, April 7-9, 2014, pp. 338-343.

[C39]Zou, H., Xie, L., Jia, Q.-S., and Wang, H., “An integrative weighted path loss and extreme

learning machine approach to RFID based indoor positioning,” Proceedings of the Fourth

International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN2013),

Montbéliard-Belfort, France, Oct. 28-31, 2013., pp. 1-5.


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[C40]Zou, H., Wang, H., Xie, L., and Jia, Q.-S., “An RFID indoor positioning system by using weighted

path loss and extreme learning machine,” Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference

on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications (CPSNA2013), Taipei, Aug. 19-20, 2013,

pp. 66-71.

[C41]Xu, Z., Jia, Q.-S., and Guan, X., “Supply demand coordination for building energy saving,”

Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering

(CASE2013), Madison, WI, USA, Aug. 17-20, 2013, pp. 89-94.

[C42]Sun, B., Luh, P. B., Jia, Q.-S., and Yan, B., “Event-based optimization with non-stationary

uncertainties to save energy cost of HVAC systems in buildings,” Proceedings of the 9th IEEE

Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE2013), Madison, WI, USA, Aug. 17-

20, 2013, pp. 436-441.

[C43]Xia, L. and Jia, Q.-S., “Policy iteration for parameterized Markov decision processes and its

application,” Proceedings of the 9th Asian Control Conference (ASCC2013), Istanbul, Turkey,

Jun. 23-26, 2013, pp. 1-6.

[C44]Xia, L. and Jia, Q.-S., “Game theoretical control of service rates in closed Jackson networks,”

Proceedings of the 25th Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC2013), Guiyang, China,

May 25-27, 2013, pp. 4559-4564.

[C45]Jia, Q.-S., Wen, Z., and Xia, L., “Event-based sensor activation for indoor occupant distribution

estimation,” Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Control, Automation,

Robotics, and Vision (ICARCV2012), Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Dec. 5-7, 2012,

pp. 240-245.

[C46]Jia, Q.-S. and Xia, L., “Approximate event-based optimization for evacuation,” the 11th

International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems(WODES2012), Guadalajara, Mexico, Oct. 3-

5, 2012.

[C47]Wang, H., Jia, Q.-S., Lei, Y., Zhao, Q., and Guan, X., “Estimation of occupant distribution by

detecting the entrance and leaving events of zones in building,” Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE

International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration (MFI2012), Hamburg,

Germany, Sept. 13-15, 2012, pp. 27-32.

[C48]Jia, Q.-S., “Event-Based Optimization with Lagged State Information,” Proceedings of the 31st

Chinese Control Conference (CCC2012), Hefei, China, July 25-27, 2012, pp. 2055-2060.

[C49]Xu, Z., Jia, Q.-S., Guan, X., Wu, J., Wang, D., and Chen, S., “Optimal scheduling of storage

devices for building energy saving,” Proceedings of the 10th World Congress on Intelligent

Control and Automation (WCICA2012), Beijing, China, July 6-8, 2012, pp. 2393-2398.

[C50]Wang, H.-T., Zhao, Q.-C., Jia, Q.-S., and Guan, X.-H., “Efficient topology optimization for a wired

networked system by adding wireless communication,” Proceedings of the 2012 American

Control Conference (ACC2012), Montréal, Canada, Jun. 27-29, 2012, pp. 448-453.

[C51]Jia, Q.-S. and Guo, Y., “Event-based evacuation in outdoor environment,” Proceedings of the

24th Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC2012), Taiyuan, China, May 23-25, 2012,

pp. 33-38.

[C52]Shen, J.-X. and Jia, Q.-S., “Computing budget allocation in policy improvement for building

energy management,” Proceedings of the 2012 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research

Conference, edited by G. Lim and J. W. Herrmann, Orlando, FL, USA, May 19-23, 2012. 10 pages.

[C53]Guo, Y. and Jia, Q.-S., “Simulation-based policy improvement for large-scale evacuation,” The

2011 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering


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(CiSE2011), Wuhan, China, December 9-11, 2011.

[C54]Jia, Q.-S., “On computing budget allocation for finding the simplest good enough design,” the

18th IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, Aug. 28-Sept. 2, 2011.

[C55]Su, Z.-H., Jia, Q.-S., and Song, C., “Ordinal optimization-based Multi-Energy System Scheduling

for Building Energy Saving,” 2011 International Conference on Intelligent Computing,

Zhengzhou, Henan, China, August 11-14, 2011.

[C56]Xu, X.-Y., Jia, Q.-S., Chen, X., Guan, X.-H., and Jiang, Z.-Y., “Analysis of energy saving potential

using shadings and natural ventilation in four major cities in China,” the 30th Chinese Control

Conference (CCC2011), Yantai, China, Jul. 22-24, 2011.

[C57]Jia, Q.-S. and Shi, L., “On optimal partial broadcasting of wireless sensor networks for Kalman

filtering,” Proceedings of the 2011 American Control Conference (ACC2011), San Francisco, CA,

USA, Jun. 29-Jul. 1, 2011, pp. 4861-4866.

[C58]Li, L., Jia, Q.-S., Wang, H.-T., Yuan, R., Guan, X., “A near optimal solution for network topology

reconfigurations with limited link resources,” Proceedings of the 2011 World Congress on

Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA2011), Taipei, Jun. 21-25, 2011, pp. 489-494.

[C59]Jia, Q.-S., “Efficient computing budget allocation for simulation-based policy improvement,”

Proceedings of the 8th Asian Control Conference (ASCC2011), Kaohsiung, May 15-18, 2011, pp.

920-925.

[C60]Jia, Q.-S., Shen, J.-X., Xu, Z.-B., Guan, X., “Simulation-based policy improvement for power

management in buildings,” Proceedings of the 8th Asian Control Conference (ASCC2011),

Kaohsiung, May 15-18, 2011, pp. 944-949.

[C61]Li, J., Chen, X., Jia, Q.-S., and Guan, X., “Prediction-based activation in wsn tracking,”

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks

(MSN2010), Hangzhou, China, Dec. 20-22, 2010, pp. 97-102.

[C62]Wang, H.-T., Jia, Q.-S., Song, C., Yuan, R., and Guan, X., “Estimation of occupancy level in

indoor environment based on heterogeneous information fusion,” Proceedings of the 49th

IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2010), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Dec. 15-17, 2010,

pp. 5086-5091.

[C63]Zhao, Y., Chen, X., Jia, Q.-S., Guan, X., and Wang, H., “Dynamic water resources planning with

locational release and annual consumption constraints,” Proceedings of the 49th IEEE

Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2010), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Dec. 15-17, 2010, pp.

3932-3937.

[C64]Jia, Q.-S., “A rollout method for finite-stage event-based decision processes,” the 10th

International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES2010), Berlin, Germany, Aug. 30-

Sept. 1, 2010. 257-262.

[C65]Sun, B., Luh, P. B., Jia, Q.-S., Jiang, Z., Wang, F., and Song, C. “An integrated control of shading

blinds, natural ventilation, and HVAC systems for energy saving and human comfort,”

Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE2010),

Toronto, Canada, Aug. 21-24, 2010, pp. 7-14.

[C66]Jia, Q.-S., “On solving optimal policies for event-based dynamic programming,” Proceedings

of the 29th Chinese Control Conference (CCC2010), Beijing, China, Jul. 29-31, 2010, pp. 1511-

1516.

[C67]Pan, L.L., Chen, T., Jia, Q.-S., Yuan, R.X., Wang, H.T., and Ding, R., “An occupant behavior model

for building energy efficiency and safety,” Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on


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Computational Mechanics and the 12th International Conference on the Enhancement and

Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science, Vol. 1233, pp. 191-196, May

21, 2010.

[C68]Li, J., Jia, Q.-S., Guan, X., and Chen, X., “Tracking moving object via a sensor network with

partial information broadcasting scheme,” Proceedings of the Joint 48th IEEE Conference on

Decision and Control and 28th Chinese Control Conference (CDC-CCC2009), Shanghai, China,

Dec. 16-18, 2009, pp. 4643-4648.

[C69]Jia, Q.-S., “Improved constrained ordinal optimization for simulation-based constrained

optimization,” Proceedings of the Joint 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and 28th

Chinese Control Conference (CDC-CCC2009), Shanghai, China, Dec. 16-18, 2009, pp. 2315-2320.

[C70]Jia, Q.-S., Xie, M., and Wu, F. F., “Ordinal optimization based security dispatching in

deregulated power systems,” Proceedings of the Joint 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and

Control and 28th Chinese Control Conference (CDC-CCC2009), Shanghai, China, Dec. 16-18,

2009, pp. 6817-6822.

[C71]Jia, Q.-S., “An adaptive sampling algorithm for simulation-based optimization with descriptive

complexity constraints,” Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Youth Conference on Information,

Computing, and Telecommunications (YC-ICT2009), Beijing, China, Sept. 20-21, 2009, pp. 118-

121.

[C72]Jia, Q.-S., “Engine maintenance policy optimization with succinct value function

representation,” Proceedings of the 7th Asian Control Conference (ASCC2009), Hong Kong

Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong, China, Aug. 27-29, 2009, pp. 1548-1553.

[C73]Jia, Q.-S. and Guo, Y., “Discovering the knowledge hierarchy of MathWorld for web

intelligence,” Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and

Knowledge Discovery, Tianjin, China, Aug. 14-16, 2009, pp. 535-539.

[C74]Zhao, Y., Zhao, Q., Jia, Q.-S., Guan, X., and Cao, X.-R., “Event-based optimization for dispatching

policies in material handling systems of general assembly lines,” the 47th IEEE Conference on

Decision and Control (CDC2008), Cancun, Mexico, Dec. 9-11, 2008, pp. 2173-2178.

[C75]Zhen, Z.-N., Jia, Q.-S., Song, C., and Guan, X.-H., “An indoor localization algorithm for lighting

control using RFID,” IEEE Energy 2030: Towards A Sustainable Energy Infrastructure, Atlanta,

GA, USA, Nov. 17-18, 2008, pp. 1-6.

[C76]Jia, Q.-S., “A potential-based method for finite-stage Markov decision processes,” Proceedings

of the 2008 American Control Conference (ACC2008), Seattle, Washington, USA, Jun. 11-13,

2008, pp. 5029-5034.

[C77]Jia, Q.-S. and Zhao, Q., “How topology affects security: An upper bound of electric power

network security,” Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, Jul. 6-11, 2008,

pp. 12947-12952.

[C78]Jia, Q.-S., “Coordination of supply chains with downside-risk-averse agents,” the 11th

International Symposium on Logistics, Beijing, China, Jul. 9-11, 2006.

[C79]Jia, Q.-S., Zhao, Q.-C., and Ho, Y.-C., “A method based on Kolmogorov complexity to improve

the efficiency of strategy optimization with limited memory space,” In: Proceedings of the

2006 American Control Conference (ACC2006), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Jun. 14-16,

2006, pp. 3105-3110.

[C80]Jia, Q.-S. and Zhao, Q.-C., "A svm-based method for engine maintenance strategy

optimization," In: Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and


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Automation (ICRA2006), Hilton in the Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA, May

15-19, 2006, pp. 1066-1071.

[C81]Song, C., Guan, X., Zhao, Q., and Jia, Q., "Planning remanufacturing systems by constrained

ordinal optimization method with feasibility model," 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and

Control and European Control Conference (CDC-ECC2005), Seville, Spain, Dec. 12-15, 2005, pp.

4676-4681.

[C82]Xia, L., Zhao, Q., and Jia, Q.-S., "The SRLF rule in multi-unit joint replacement maintenance

problem and its optimality," 12th INFORMS/APS Conference, June 23-25, 2004, Beijing, China.

Editorial

[E1] Jia, Q.-S. and Johansson, K. H., “Guest editorial: Event-based control and optimization,”

Discrete Event Dynamic Systems – Theory and Applications, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 99-102, Jun.

2014.

[E2] Jia, Q.-S., Zhao, Q.C., Darabi, H., Huang, G.S., Becerik-Gerber, B., Sandberg, H., and Johansson,

K.H., “Smart building technology,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp.

18-20, Jun. 2014.

[E3] Jia, Q.-S., “Technical committee on discrete-event systems,” IEEE Control Systems Magazine,

Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 19-20, Feb. 2014.

[E4] Jia, Q.-S., “IEEE control systems society outreach fund,” IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol.

34, No. 1, pp. 18-U2, Feb. 2014.

[E5] Lee, L. H., Chew, E. P., Frazier, P. I., Jia, Q.-S., and Chen, C.-H., “Advances in simulation

optimization and its applications foreword,” IIE Transactions, Vol. 45, No. 7, pp. 683-684, Jul.

2013.

Book Chapter

[BC1] Jia, Q.-S., Zhang, Y., and Zhao, Q., “Controlling the Internet of Things – from Energy Saving

to Fast Evacuation in Smart Buildings,” Chapter 11, J.T. Wen and S. Mishra, Intelligent Building

Control Systems – A Survey of Modern Building Control and Sensing Strategies, Springer,

2018, 293-310.

[BC2] Cao, X.-R., Zhao, Y., Jia, Q.-S., and Zhao, Q., “An Introduction to Event-Based Optimization:

Theory and Applications,” Chapter 19, F.L. Lewis and D. Liu, Reinforcement Learning and

Approximate Dynamic Programming for Feedback Control, Wiley, 2012.

Patents

[P1] Zhang, C., Li, H., and Jia, Q.-S., A Smart Wearable Device Showing Evacuation Guidance,

Application filed, No. 201710239711.8, Apr. 13, 2017.

[P2] Yu, A., Zhang, B., Zhang, C., Jia, Q.-S., Li, X., and Zhou, N., A Smart Helmet for Rescue in

Buildings and Its Rescue Guidance Method, Application filed, No. 201710636773.2, Jul. 31,

2017.

[P3] Wang, H., Jia, Q.-S., Guan, X., and Jiang, Z., A Control Method for Energy Devices in Buildings

based on Zonal Occupancy Distribution, Patent No. CN 102621886 B, Nov. 6, 2013.

[P4] Jiang, Y., Wang, F., Zhao, Q., Jiang, Z., Jia, Q.-S., Rao, P., Ma, L., Wen, J., Song, F., Mao, Z., Zhao,

Y., and Sun, B., An Integrated Control System for Indoor Environment based on Comfort

Satisfaction, Patent No. CN 202948289 U, May 22, 2013.


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[P5] Qiao, L., Zhang, H., Yang, R., Chu, Y., Guo, S., Wang, H., Jia, Q., Zhao, Q., Jiang, Y., Narayanan,

S., Fire Situation Awareness and Evacuation Support, Patent No. US 2012/0047083 A1, Feb. 23,

2012.

[P6] Qiao, L, Zhang, H., Yang, R., Chu, Y., Guo, S., Wang, H., Jia, Q.-S., Zhao, Q., Jiang, Y., Narayanan,

S., A Method and A System for Fire Situation Evaluation and Evacuation Guidance, Patent No.

CN 102058939 A, May 18, 2011.

Funding (by year)

2017 (34,000,000 CNY)

1. Co-PI. New Platform for Smart Buildings, National Key R&D Project of China, Jul. 2017-Dec.

2020. Amount: 34,000,000 CNY.

2016 (25,850,000 CNY)

2. Principle Investigator (PI). Policy Optimization for Multi-Scale Networked Discrete Event

Dynamic Systems, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 61673229), Jan. 2017

– Dec. 2020. Amount: 850,000 CNY.

3. Co-PI. Fundamental Theory for Planning, Operation, and Transactions in Energy Internet,

National Key R&D Project of China, Jan. 2017-Dec. 2020. Amount: 25,000,000 CNY.

2015 (1,445,000 CNY)

1. PI. Funding for Excellent Young Scholars, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science

and Technology, Jan. 2015-Dec. 2016. Amount: 500,000 CNY.

2. PI. HVAC Control Based on the Occupant Information Estimated by Elevator Operations,

Tsinghua-UTC Research Institute for Building Energy, Safety and Control Systems, Jan. 2015-

Dec. 2015. Amount: 945,000 CNY.

2014 (3,630,000 CNY)

3. PI. Emergent Event-Based Evacuation Guidance Optimization for Large Cities, the Program for

New Star in Science and Technology in Beijing, Jul. 2014-Jun. 2017. Amount: 350,000 CNY.

4. Co-PI. Optimal Dynamic Supply Demand Matching and Scheduling for Smart Grid, National

Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC U1301254), Jan. 2014 – Dec. 2017. Amount:

2,550,000 CNY.

5. PI. Whole-Building Occupant Distribution Estimation, Tsinghua-UTC Research Institute for

Building Energy, Safety and Control Systems, Jan. 2014-Dec. 2014. Amount: 630,000 CNY.

6. Co-PI. Energy Management in Smart Micro Grids of Official Buildings, Tsinghua National

Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList) Cross-Discipline Foundation, Jan.

2014 – Dec. 2014. (Collaboration with University of California at Berkeley, USA). Amount:

100,000 CNY.

2013 (25,167,300 CNY)

7. Co-PI. Real-time Active Preventive Traffic Control in Large Cities, the Key Project to Support

Science and Technology in China, Feb. 2013-Dec. 2015. Amount: 8,720,000 CNY.

8. PI. Control Theory and Methodology, Project for Excellent Young Scholars, National Natural

Science Foundation of China, (equivalent to NSF Career Award in USA), (NSFC 61222302),


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Jan., 2013-Dec. 2015. Amount: 1,000,000 CNY.

9. Co-PI. Situation Awareness based Large Scale Evacuation, National Natural Science

Foundation of China (NSFC 91224008), Jan. 2013 – Dec. 2015. Amount: 15,000,000 CNY.

10. PI. Occupant Distribution Estimation System, Tsinghua-UTC Research Institute for Building

Energy, Safety and Control Systems, Jan. 2013-Dec. 2013. Amount: 447,300 CNY.

2012 (4,630,000 CNY)

11. PI. Distributed Event-Based Policy Optimization for Large-Scale Networked Discrete Event

Dynamic Systems, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 61174072), Jan., 2012-

Dec., 2015. Amount: 630,000 CNY.

12. Co-PI. Satisfaction-based Feedback Control for Occupant Comfort, Tsinghua-UTC Research

Institute for Building Energy, Safety and Control System, Jan. 2012-Dec. 2012. Amount:

2,000,000 CNY.

13. Co-PI. Decentralized Computing Platform, Tsinghua-UTC Research Institute for Building Energy,

Safety and Control System, Jan. 2012-Dec. 2012. Amount: 2,000,000 CNY.

2011 (13,600,000 CNY)

14. PI. Schedule of Multiple Energy Systems for Energy-Saving in Buildings Facilitated by Micro

Grid, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList) Cross-

Discipline Foundation, Jul., 2011-Jun., 2012. (Collaboration with University of Southern

California, USA). Amount: 100,000 CNY.

15. PI. Prediction Model for Networked Multi-Energy Planning & Scheduling in Energy Intensive

Enterprises, Siemens CKI, Jun., 2011-May, 2012. Amount: 300,000 CNY.

16. Co-PI. Intelligent and Networked Systems, the Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to

Universities (the National 111 International Collaboration Project, phase 2), No. B06002, Jan.,

2011-Dec., 2015. Amount: 9,000,000 CNY.

17. Co-PI. Analysis of Storage Devices in Energy Management in Smart Buildings, Tsinghua-UTC

Research Institute for Building Energy, Safety and Control System, Jan. 2011 – Dec., 2011.

Amount: 200,000 CNY.

18. Co-PI. Decentralized Computing in Buildings, Tsinghua-UTC Research Institute for Building

Energy, Safety and Control System, Jan., 2011-Dec., 2011. Amount: 2,000,000 CNY.

19. Co-PI. Complaint-based Feedback Control of Human Comfort, Tsighua-UTC Research Institute

for Building Energy, Safety and Control System, Jan., 2011-Dec., 2011. Amount: 2,000,000 CNY.

2010 (2,620,000 CNY)

20. Co-PI. Decision Analysis for Evacuation under Emergency Conditions based on Real-time

Information, The Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC

90924001), Jan., 2010-Dec., 2012. Amount: 350,000 CNY.

21. PI. Smart Power Management for Buildings, Tsinghua-UTC Research Institute for Building

Energy, Safety and Control System, Jan., 2010-Dec., 2010. Amount: 230,000 CNY.

22. Co-PI. Integrated Platform for Information Collection, Communication, and Control, Tsinghua-

UTC Research Institute for Building Energy, Safety and Control System, Jan., 2010-Dec., 2010.

Amount: 2,040,000 CNY.


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2009 (6,040,000 CNY)

23. PI. Integrated Control and Optimization for Energy Efficiency, Safety, and Comfort, Tsinghua-

UTC Research Institute for Building Energy, Safety and Control System, Jan., 2009 - Dec., 2009.


24. Co-PI. Information System for Building Occupants Behavior and Environment, Tsinghua-UTC

Research Institute for Building Energy, Safety and Control System, Jan., 2009 - Dec., 2009.


25. Co-PI. Building Operation Support System, Tsinghua-UTC Research Institute for Building

Energy, Safety and Control System, Jan., 2009 - Dec., 2009. Amount: 2,000,000 CNY.

2008 (6,566,000 CNY)

26. Co-PI. Dynamic Optimal Scheduling of Networked Water Resource and Hydrothermal

Electricity, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 60736027), Jan., 2008-Dec.,

2011. Amount: 2,000,000 CNY.

27. PI. Ordinal Optimization for Maintenance Strategy Optimization of Large Scale

Remanufacturing Systems with the Descriptive Complexity Constraint, Specialized Research

Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (20070003110), Jan., 2008-Dec., 2010.

Amount: 36,000 CNY.

28. PI. Ordinal Optimization for Strategy Optimization of Large Scale Discrete Event Dynamic

Systems with the Descriptive Complexity Constraint, National Natural Science Foundation of

China (NSFC 60704008), Jan., 2008-Dec., 2010. Amount: 190,000 CNY.

29. Co-PI. Investigation of Security Standard of Integrated Building Control System, Tsinghua-UTC

Research Institute for Building Energy, Safety and Control System, Jan., 2008 – Dec., 2008.


30. Co-PI. Investigation of Occupancy Behaviors and Integrated Building Control System, Tsinghua-

UTC Research Institute for Building Energy, Safety and Control System, Jan., 2008 – Dec., 2008.


2006 (9,000,000 CNY)

31. Co-PI. Intelligent and Networked Systems, the Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to

Universities (the National 111 International Collaboration Project, phase 1), No. B06002, Jan.,

2006-Dec., 2010. Amount: 9,000,000 CNY.

Services

Technical Committee Chair, Chapter Chair, Board of Governors

2018-2022 Vice-general secretary and member of the 11th Technical Committee on Control

Theory, Chinese Association of Automation

2016-2020 member of the 1st Technical Committee on Information Security for Industrial

Control System, Chinese Association of Automation

2016-2020 Chair of IFAC Technical Committee 9.3 – Control for Smart Cities.

2017 Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society (appointed)

2014-2015 Chapter coordinators of IEEE Control Systems Society, Region 10.

2013-present Chair of IEEE Control Systems Society Beijing Chapter


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2012-present Co-Chair of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee on Smart

Buildings

2012-2015 Chair of IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Discrete Event

Systems

Associate Editor

2015-present Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

2012-2016 Associate Editor, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications

2012-2017 Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

2012-present Associate Editor, IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board

2013-present Associate Editor, IEEE ICRA (International Conference on Robotics and Automation)

Conference Editorial Board

2011-present Associate Editor, IEEE CASE (Conference on Automation Science and Engineering)

Conference Editorial Board

Guest Editor

2012 Guest Editor, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, Special Issue on

Event-Based Control and Optimization (with Karl Henrik Johansson)

2011 Guest Editor, IIE Transactions, Special Issue on Simulation Optimization and Its

Applications (with Loo Hay Lee, Ek Peng Chew, Peter I. Frazier, and Chun-Hung Chen)

2011 Guest Editor, Frontiers of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in China, Special Issue on

Emerging Frontiers of Intelligent and Networked Systems (with Xiren Cao, Xiaohong Guan,

and Qianchuan Zhao)

Conference Chairs

2017 Program chair of the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering 2017

(CASE2017)

2016 Tutorial/Workshop co-chair of the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and

Engineering 2016 (CASE2016)

2016 Student activity chair for IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2016 (CDC2016).

2016 National organizing committee co-chair for the International Workshop on Discrete Event

Systems 2016 (WODES2016)

2015 Special sessions co-chair for the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering

2015 (CASE 2015).

2013 Student activity chair for IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering 2013

(CASE2013)

2012 Track chair for the Modeling and Simulation track, the 2012 Industrial and Systems

Engineering Research Conference (ISERC2012), 2012 IIE Annual Conference and Expo.

Conference Technical Program Committee Member

2011-present International Program Committee member, Chinese Control Conference

2010-present Chair of Nomination Committee, Ho-Pan-Qing-Yi Best DEDS Paper Award

2008-present International Program Committee member, World Congress on Intelligent Control

and Automation


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2014 International Program Committee member, the IEEE World Forum on Internet of

Things 2014 (WF-IOT2014)

2013-2014 International Program Committee member, the 3rd and 4th International Conference

on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications

(SIMULTECH 2013, 2014)

2013 International Technical Program Committee member, the IEEE Smart Grid Standards,

Co-Simulation, Test-beds, and Field Trials Symposium (IEEE SmartGridComm 2013

Symposium)

2012 International Program Committee member, the 11th International Workshop on

Discrete Event Systems (WODES2012)

2012 International Program Committee member, the 5th International Workshop on

Wireless Sensor, Actor, and Robot Networks (WiSARN2012)

2008 Nomination Committee member, Ho-Pan-Qing-Yi Best DEDS Paper Award

Workshop Chair and Organizer

2017.08.27 Workshop on Cyber Cycles for the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Island, Hawai’I, USA.

Co-organizer: Fumin Zhang.

2016.12.11 Workshop on Rich Data Backed Control and Optimization for Smart Cities, Las Vegas,

NV, USA. Co-organizer: Rong Su.

2015.08.24 Workshop on Smart Buildings – Modeling, Simulation, Optimization, and Testbeds,

Gothenburg, Sweden.

2013.08.17 Workshop on Stochastic Simulation Optimization for Discrete Event Systems –

Perturbation Analysis, Ordinal Optimization and Beyond, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Co-organizer: Chun-Hung Chen, Loo Hay Lee, and Xiaohong Guan.

2012.03.16 The 1st IEEE Control Systems Beijing Chapter Graduate Student Workshop on Control

and Systems, Beijing, China. Co-chair: Yanlong Zhao.

Workshop Program Chair

2018.05.16 International Workshop on Emerging Frontiers in Systems and Control, Beijing,

China.

2015.05.19 The 5th International Workshop on Emerging Frontiers in Systems and Control,

Beijing, China.

2012.05.18 The 2nd International Workshop on Emerging Frontiers in Systems and Control,

Beijing, China.

2008.06.21 The 1st International Workshop on Emerging Frontiers in Systems and Control,

Beijing, China.

Invited Session and Special Session Organizer

2018.08 Regulating Traffic in Smart Cities, the 2nd IEEE Conference on Control Technology and

Applications (IEEE CCTA 2018), August 21-24, 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark, Co-

organizers: Fumin Zhang and Rong Su.

2017.08 Internet of Things and Data Analytics, the 13th IEEE Conference on Automation Science

and Engineering, August 20-23, 2017, Xi’an, China, Co-organizers: Li Xia and Qianchuan

Zhao.


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2017.08 Smart Building Energy Management and Optimization, the 13th IEEE Conference on

Automation Science and Engineering, August 20-23, 2017, Xi’an, China, Co-organizers:

Zhanbo Xu.

2016.07 Decision and Control in Smart Cities, the 2016 American Control Conference, July 6-8,

2016, Boston, MA, USA, Co-organizers: Anuradha Annaswamy.

2016.06 Control for Smart Cities, the 12th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation

(IEEE ICCA 2016), June 1-3, 2016, Kathmandu, Nepal, Co-organizer: Rong Su.

2015.12 Progress on Discrete-Event System Theories: from Fault Diagnosis, Supervisory Control

to Operation Routing and Scheduling, the 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,

December 15-18, 2015, Osaka, Japan, Co-organizers: Rong Su and Hai Lin.

2015.08 Simulation Optimization and Building Automation, the 11th IEEE International

Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, August 24-28, 2015, Gothenburg,

Sweden, Co-organizers: Jie Song and Chun-Hung Chen.

2015.08 Modeling, Performance Analysis, and Optimization of Discrete Event System, the 11th

IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, August 24-28,

2015, Gothenburg, Sweden, Co-organizers: Rong Su, Christoforos Hadjicostis, and

Spiridon Reveliotis.

2013.08 Smart Buildings – Comfort, Energy Efficient, and Safe, Special Session, the 9th IEEE

International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, August 18-20, 2013,

Madison, Wisconsin, Co-organizers: Qianchuan Zhao, Houshang Darabi, Li Xia, and

(Wendy) Wenqi Guo.

2012.10 Effective Modeling, Analysis, and Controller Synthesis for Optimal Performance in Large

Scale Systems, Invited Session, the 11th International Workshop on Discrete Event

Systems, October 3-5, 2012, Guadalajara, Mexico, Co-organizers: Rong Su and Jan

Komenda.

2012.10 Supervisory Control of Large Discrete-Event Systems Modeled by Automata, Invited

Session, the 11th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, October 3-5, 2012,

Guadalajara, Mexico, Co-organizers: Rong Su and Jan Komenda.

2012.07 Event-Based Optimization Theory and Applications, Invited Session, the 31st Chinese

Control Conference, July 25-27, 2012, Hefei, China, Co-organizer: Hao Tang.

2011.05 Simulation-Based Optimization of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, Invited Session,

Asian Control Conference 2011, May 15-18, 2011, Kaohsiung.

Courses Taught

For graduate students

1. Simulation-based Optimization for Large-Scale Complex Systems

Textbooks

Cassandras, C. G. and Lafortune, S., Introduction to Discrete Event Systems, second edition,

Springer, 2008.

Ho, Y.-C., Zhao, Q.-C., and Jia, Q.-S., Ordinal Optimization: Soft Optimization for Hard Problems,

Springer, 2007.

Cao, X.-R., Stochastic Learning and Optimization: A Sensitivity-Based Approach, Springer, 2007.

2. Nonlinear Programming and Network Optimization

Textbooks


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Bertsekas, D. P., Nonlinear Programming, second edition, Athena Scientific, 1999.

Bertsekas, D. P., Network Optimization: Continuous and Discrete Models, Athena Scientific,

1998.

For undergraduate students

3. Computer Network with Applications

Textbook

Kurose, J. F. and Ross, K. W., Computer Networking – A Top-Down Approach, sixth edition,

Pearson, 2012.

Students

Current PhD students (by starting year)

2017 Teng Long

Jingxian Tang

2016 Junjie Wu

2014 Zhaoyu Jiang (co-advisor)

2013 Yu Yang (co-advisor)

Past PhD students (by graduation year)

2017 Yuanming Zhang (Qingdao Sifang Co.)

2016 Zijian Wu (co-advisor, postdoc)

Qilong Huang (co-advisor, telecommunication company)

2015 Zhanbo Xu (co-advisor, postdoc at University of California at Berkeley)

2014 Biao Sun (co-advisor, now at JPMorgan Chase)

2013 Hengtao Wang (co-advisor, now at Huadian Electric Power Research Institute)

2012 Li Li (co-advisor, now associate professor at Shaanxi Normal University)

2011 Yanjia Zhao (co-advisor, now at CITIC Securities Co., LTD)

2011 Jianghai Li (co-advisor, now assistant professor at Tsinghua University)

I have also supervised 8 master students in total including 3 current master students. One student

graduated with cum laude.

Invited Talks

1. Jia, Q.-S., “Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Physical Energy Systems – Event-Driven Learning and

Optimization,” Shanghai Jiaotong University, Apr. 26, 2018. Host: Xiang Yin.

2. Jia, Q.-S., “Reinforcement Learning Applied to Smart X – Buildings, Cities, and Grids,” Royal

Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Jul. 17, 2017. Host: Karl Henrik Johansson.

3. Jia, Q.-S., “Reinforcement Learning Applied to Smart X – Buildings, Cities, and Grids,” Chalmers

University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, Jan. 24, 2017. Host: Bengt Lennartson.

4. Jia, Q.-S., “Controlling the Internet of Things – From Energy Saving to Fast Evacuation in Smart

Buildings,” New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA, April 13, 2016. Host:

Mengchu Zhou.

5. Jia, Q.-S., “On occupant oriented wireless sensor network in smart micro grid of cyber physical

building systems,” Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, July 4, 2015. Host: Zaiyue Yang.


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6. Jia,Q.-S., “On occupant oriented wireless sensor network in cyber physical building systems,”

Samsung, Beijing, China, June 3, 2015. Host: Youxin Chen.

7. Jia, Q.-S., “Management of the renewables in cyber-physical energy systems: Opportunities

and challenges,” Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences,

Beijing, China, May 12, 2015. Host: Wenxiao Zhao.

8. Jia, Q.-S., “On occupant oriented wireless sensor network in building cyber physical systems,”

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA, Aug. 19, 2014. Host: Prof. Robert Xiaoyang Gao.

9. Jia, Q.-S., “Ordinal and event-based optimization for large scale networked systems,”

Channing Division of Networked Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA, Aug. 15,

2014. Host: Prof. Yang-Yu Liu.


Boston University, Boston, MA, USA, Aug. 5, 2014. Host: Prof. Christos G. Cassandras.

11. Jia, Q.-S., “To sim or not to sim – Computing budget allocation in simulation optimization of

large scale networked systems,” Boston University, Boston, MA, USA, Jul. 22, 2014. Host: Prof.

Yannis Paschalidis.


City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Mar. 26, 2014. Host: Prof. Gongsheng Huang.

13. Jia, Q.-S., “To sim or not to sim? – Computing budget allocation in simulation-based

optimization,” University of Massachusetts – Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA, Nov. 13, 2013. Host:

Prof. Weibo Gong.

14. Jia, Q.-S., “To sim or not to sim? – Computing budget allocation in simulation-based policy

optimization,” University of California – Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, Aug. 8, 2013. Host: Dr.

Lin Zhang.


optimization,” University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA, Jul. 16, 2013. Host: Prof. Peter Luh.

16. Jia, Q.-S., Sun, B., Wang, H., and Lei, Y., “Smart building facilitated by wireless sensor networks

and integrated terminal control,” University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA, Jul. 16, 2013. Host:

Prof. Robert Gao.


optimization,” IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA, May

31, 2013. Host: Dr. Siyuan Lu.

18. Jia, Q.-S., “Efficient computing budget allocation for simulation-based policy optimization,”

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, May 16, 2013. Host: Prof. Dimitri

P. Bertsekas.

19. Jia, Q.-S., Sun, B., Wang, H., and Lei, Y., “Smart building facilitated by wireless sensor networks

and integrated terminal control,” 2013 SinBerBEST Annual Meeting, Singapore, Jan. 9-10,

2013. Host: Prof. Costas Spanos.

20. Jia, Q.-S., “The Pursuit of Simple and Good Management for Large-Scale Networked Systems,”

Boston University, Boston, MA, USA, Dec. 8, 2011. Host: Prof. Christos G. Cassandras.


National University of Singapore, Singapore, Aug. 16, 2011. Host: Prof. Kien Ming Ng.


2011 HKUST-PKU-THU Workshop on Networked Systems, Peking University, Aug. 3, 2011.

23. Jia, Q.-S., Shen, J.-X., Xu, Z.-B., and Guan, X.-H., “Simulation-based Policy Improvement with


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Applications in Building Energy Management,” The University of Melbourne, Melbourne,

Australia, Jul. 15, 2011. Host: Dr. Michael Rotkowtiz.

24. Jia, Q.-S., Shen, J.-X., Xu, Z.-B., and Guan, X.-H., “Power management in buildings facilitated by

simulation-based policy improvement,” the 19th Triennial Conference of the International

Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS), Melbourne, Australia, Jul. 10-15, 2011.

25. Jia, Q.-S., Shen, J.-X., Xu, Z.-B., and Guan, X.-H., “Simulation-based Policy Improvement with

Applications in Building Energy Management,” Taiwan University, May 18, 2011. Host: Prof.

Shi-Chung Chang.

26. Jia, Q.-S., “Ordinal optimization: The past, the present, and the future,” preconference

workshop “Five Decades of Ho-ntrol and Ho-ptimization” in the Joint 48th IEEE Conference on

Decision and Control and 28th Chinese Control Conference, Shanghai, China, Dec. 15, 2009.

27. Zhao, Q. and Jia, Q.-S., “The instance risk of simulation-based optimization algorithms,”

INFORMS 2009 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA, Oct. 14-16, 2009.

28. Ho, Y.-C., Zhao, Q., and Jia, Q.-S., “Ordinal optimization: Soft optimization for hard problems,”

Invited session: Efficient Simulation and Optimization I, INFORMS 2008 Annual Meeting,

Washington, DC, USA, Oct. 12-15, 2008.

29. Ho, Y.-C., Zhao, Q., and Jia, Q.-S., “Applications of ordinal optimization: Some examples,”

Invited session: Efficient Simulation and Optimization II, INFORMS 2008 Annual Meeting,

Washington, DC, USA, Oct. 12-15, 2008.

30. Jia, Q.-S. and Zhao, Q.-C., “How Topology Affects Security: An Upper Bound of Electric Power

Network Security,” Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School, The Institute of

Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, July 17, 2008. Host: Prof. David Feldman

and Prof. Xiao-Song Chen.

31. Zhao, Q.-C., Jia, Q.-S., and Cao, Y., “How Much Spare Capacity is Necessary for the Security of

Resource Networks?” Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School, The Institute of

Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, July 17, 2008. Host: Prof. David Feldman

and Prof. Xiao-Song Chen.

32. Jia, Q.-S., “Ordinal Optimization: Soft Optimization for Hard Problems,” Santa Fe Institute

Complex Systems Summer School, The Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of

Sciences, Jul. 23, 2007. Host: Prof. David Feldman.

33. Jia, Q.-S., “Ordinal Optimization: Soft Optimization for Hard Problems,” Academy of

Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mar. 29, 2007. Host: Prof.

Lei Guo.

34. Jia, Q.-S., “Ordinal Optimization: Soft Optimization for Hard Problems,” Department of

Computer Science, Stanford University, Dec. 6, 2006. Host: Prof. Gene H Golub.

35. Jia, Q.-S., “Ordinal Optimization: Soft Optimization for Hard Problems,” Department of

Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut, Nov. 2, 2006. Host: Prof. Peter

Luh.

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