Faculty
Zhiyun Lin is currently a tenured Full Professor and Head of the School of Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Southern University of Science and Technology. He received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Toronto, Canada, in 2005, and then he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in University of Toronto from 2005 to 2007. He joined College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University in 2007 as a research professor and then promoted to a tenured full professor in 2011. In 2017, he moved to Hangzhou Dianzi University and worked as the Director of Artificial Intelligence Institute. He joined Southern University of Science and Technology in 2021. He held visiting professor positions at several universities including The Australian National University (Australia), University of Cagliari (Italy), University of Newcastle (Australia), University of Technology Sydney (Australia), and Yale University (USA). He is a technical committee member of The International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) on Networked Systems, and on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems. He is Associate Editor of several international journals including IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Control Systems Letters, Electronic, etc. His research interests focus on multi-agent systems, distributed artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and swarm robots, and cyber-physical systems. He has authored and coauthored two monograph and over 230 peer-reviewed papers in leading international journals and conferences. He is a Foreign Full Member (Academician) of the Russian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of IET and a Fellow of AAIA.
Education Background
2001.09 - 2005.10,University of Toronto,Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering
1998.09 - 2001.03, Zhejiang University,Department of Electrical Engineering,MSc(Eng.), Electrical Engineering
1994.09 -1998.07, Yanshan University,Department of Electrical Engineering,BSc, Electrical Engineering
Working Experience
2025.05-Now ,Southern University of Science and Technology, School of Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing(AiM), Dean of School
2023.02-2025.05 ,Southern University of Science and Technology, School of Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing(AiM),Deputy Dean of School
2021.08-2023.01,Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Full Professor
2017.05-2021.08,Hangzhou Dianzi University, School of Automation,Distinguished Professor, Director of Artificial Intelligence Institute
2011.12- 2017.04, Zhejiang University, College of Electrical Engineering,Full Professor
2007.09 - 2011.12, Zhejiang University, College of Electrical Engineering,Research Professor
2005.10- 2007.08, University of Toronto, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research Area
Multi-agent systems: distributed estimation, control and optimization
Distributed artificial intelligence
Autonomous systems and swarm robots
Cyber-physical systems
Publications
(1) Zhiyun Lin; Lili Wang; Zhimin Han; Minyue Fu ; A Graph Laplacian Approach to Coordinate-free Formation Stabilization for Directed Networks, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2016,61(5): 1269-1280
(2) Zhiyun Lin; Lili Wang; Zhiyong Chen; Minyue Fu; Zhimin Han ; Necessary and sufficient graphical conditions for affine formation control, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2016, 61(10）: 2877-2897
(3) Zhiyun Lin; Tingrui Han; Ronghao Zheng; Minyue Fu ; Distributed localization for 2-D sensor networks with bearing-only measurements under switching topologies, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2016, 64(23): 6345-6359
(4) Yun Xu; Tingrui Han; Kai Cai; Zhiyun Lin; Gangfeng Yan; Minyue Fu ; A Distributed Algorithm for Resource Allocation Over Dynamic Digraphs, IEEE Transactions ON Signal Processing, 2017, 65(10): 2600-2612
(5) Jian Hou; Zhiyun Lin; Mengfan Xiang; Mingyue Jiang ; Random grouping based resilient beamforming, Automatica, 2021, 123(1)
(6) Zhiyun Lin; Tingrui Han; Ronghao Zheng; Changbin Yu ; Distributed localization with mixedmeasurements under switching topologies, Automatica, 2017, 76(1): 251-257
(7) Zhiyun Lin; Minyue Fu; Yingfei Diao ; Distributed Self Localization for Relative PositionSensing Networks in 2D Space, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2015, 63(14): 3751-3761
(8) Zhiyun Lin; Lili Wang; Zhimin Han; Minyue Fu ; Distributed formation control of multi-agent systems using complex Laplacian, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2014, 59(7): 1765-1777
(9) Zhiyun Lin; Chen Wang ; Scheduling parallel Kalman filters for multiple processes, Automatica, 2013, 49(1): 9-16
(10) Zhiyun Lin; Bruce Francis; Manfredi Maggiore ; State agreement for continuous-time coupled nonlinear systems, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2007, 46(1): 288-307
(11) Zhiyun Lin; Bruce Francis; Manfredi Maggiore ; Necessary and sufficient graphical conditions for formation control of unicycles, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2005, 50(1): 121-127
(12) Zhiyun Lin; Mireille Broucke; Bruce Francis ; Local control strategies for groups of mobile autonomous agents, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2004, 49(4): 622-629
(13) Yanjun Lin; Zhiyun Lin; Zhiyong Sun; Brian D.O. Anderson ; A unified approach for finitetime global stabilization of affine, rigid and translational formation, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2021, Early Access
(14) Yingfei Diao; Zhiyun Lin; Minyue Fu ; A barycentric coordinate based distributed localization algorithm for sensor networks, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2014, 62(18): 4760-4771