Professional Activities

Academic Activities

Associate Editor

  • An  Associate Editor for the Journal of Control Theory and Technology (JCTT), Springer, 2013 ~
  • An Associate Editor for the ASME Transactions Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control (JDSMC), 2008 ~ 2012.
  • Associate Editor for the IEEE Control Systems Society –  Multi-conference on Systems and Control (MSC), 2010.
  • Associate Editor for the IEEE Control Systems Society –  MSC, 2009.

 

  • Advisory Board Member, OA Journal of Cogent Engineering: Systems and Control Section, Taylor & Francis, 2013 ~

 

International Program Committee Member

 

  • International Program Committee (IPC) Member for the 13th Asian Control Conference (ASCC 2022), Jeju Island, Korea, May 4-7, 2022.
  • International Program Committee (IPC) Member for the 2021 21st IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (IEEE ICCAS 2021), Jeju, Korea, Oct. 12-15, 2021.
  • International Program Committee (IPC) Member for the 2020 20th IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (IEEE ICCAS 2020), BEXCO, Busan, Korea, Oct. 13-16, 2020.
  • International Program Committee (IPC) Member for the 2019 19th IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (IEEE ICCAS 2019), ICC Jeju, Korea, Oct. 15-18, 2019.
  • International Program Committee (IPC) Member for the 2018 18th IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (IEEE ICCAS 2018), YongPyong Resort, PyeongChang, GangWon, Korea, October 17-20, 2018.
  • International Program Committee (IPC) Member for the 2017 17th IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (IEEE ICCAS 2017), Ramada Plaza, Jeju, Korea, October 18-21, 2017.
  • International Program Committee (IPC) Member for the 2016 16th IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (IEEE ICCAS 2016), HICO, Gyeongju, Korea, October 16-19, 2016.
  • International Program Committee (IPC) Member for the 2015 15th IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (IEEE ICCAS 2015), BEXCO, Busan, Korea, October 13-16, 2015.
  • International Program Committee (IPC) Member for the 2014 14th IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (IEEE ICCAS 2014), KINTEX (Seoul), Gyeonggi-do, Korea, October 22-25, 2014.
  • International Program Committee (IPC) Member for the 2013 13th IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (IEEE ICCAS 2013) Kimdaejung, Gwangju, Korea, October 20-23, 2013.
  • International Program Committee (IPC) Member for the 2012 12th IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (IEEE ICCAS 2012)  ICC Jeju, Korea October 17-21, 2012.
  • International Program Committee (IPC) Member for the 13th IASTED International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control (ISC 2011) Cambridge, United Kingdom, July 11 – 13, 2011.
  • International Program Committee (IPC) Member for the 2011 11th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS 2011) KINTEX, Gyeonggi-do, Korea October 26-29, 2011.
  • International Program Committee (IPC) Member for the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications (CCA), Yokohama, Japan, 2010.
  • International Program Committee Member for the 2010 International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), Korea, 2010.
  • International Program Committee Member for the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC), St. Petersburg, Russia, 2009.
  • International Program Committee Member for the 12th IASTED International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control – ISC 2009, Cambridge, MA, 2009.
  • An International Program Committee Member for ICCAS 2008, ICASE International Joint Conference, Korea, 2008.
  • An International Program Committee Member for the 11th IASTED International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control – ISC 2008, Orlando, FL, 2008.
  • A Co-Guest Editor for Special Issue on Information and Communication Technologies in Vehicle Navigation at the  International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication System (IJVICS), 2007 ~ 2008.
  • An International Program Committee Member for the 10th IASTED International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control – ISC 2007, Cambridge, MA, 2007.
  • An International Program Committee Member for ICCAS 2007, ICASE International Joint Conference, Korea, 2007.
  • An International Program Committee Member for the 7th Atlantic Symposium on Computational Biology & Genome Information (CBGI), USA, 2007.
  • An International Program Committee Member for 2006 SICE – ICASE International Joint Conference, Oct. 2006.
  • A Program Committee Member for 2005 BISBLC (Bio-Inspired Systems and Brain-Like Computer), the 8th Joint
  • Conference on Information Sciences, July 2005.
  • A Program Committee Member for 2000 American Control Conference, June 2000
  • A Program Committee Member of the SPIE Conference on Process Control and Inspection for Industry, Nov. 2000.

 

Organizing Committee Member

  • SIAM-SEAS 2011, March 2011.

 

Organizer

  • An Organizer of an Invited Session, titled “Current Directions in Civil Infrastructure Protective Control”, for the 2000 American Control Conference, June 2000.
  • An Organizer for an NSF project workshop held at UNCC 2015.

 

Session Chair / Session co-Chair

  • Session Chair for a session, titled “System Theory and Control Theory”,  at the 2019 IEEE CCC, July, 2019.
  • Session Chair for a session, titled “Robust Control III (Regular Session)”,  at the 51th IEEE CDC, December 2012.
  • Session Chair for a session at the 23rd IEEE CCDC, May 2011.
  • Session Chair for a session, titled “Complex Systems I”,  at 2008 IEEE 7th World Congress of Intelligent Control and Automation (IEEE WCICA 2008), June 2008.
  • Session Chair for a session, titled “Pattern Recognition and Image Processing (I)”,  at 2004 IEEE 5th World Congress of Intelligent Control and Automation (IEEE WCICA 2004), June 2004.
  • Session Chair for a session, titled “Control of Large-Scale Systems”,  at the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (IEEE CDC’03), Dec. 2003.
  • Session Chair for a session, titled “Petri Net and System Modelling”,  at 2002 IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (IEEE ICCA’02), June 2002.
  • Session Chair for a session, titled “Robust Control (1) ”,  at 2002 IEEE 4th World Congress of Intelligent Control and Automation (IEEE 4th WCICA), June 2002.
  • Session Chair for a session, titled “ Intelligent Systems”,  at 2001 International Symposium on Adaptive and Intelligent Systems and Control, June 2001 .
  • Session Chair for a session, titled “Topics in Linear Design”,  at the 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec. 2000.
  • Session Co-Chair for a session, titled “Adaptive Control: Linear Systems”,  at the 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec. 2000.
  • Session Co-Chair for a session, titled “Current Directions in Civil Infrastructure Protective Control”,  at the 2000 American Control Conference, June 2000.
  • Session Co-Chair for a session, titled “Design Applications of Optimization”,  at the 2000 American Control Conference, June 2000.
  • Session Co-Chair for a session, titled “Control of Aircraft and Helicopters”,  at the 14th Triennial IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) World Congress, July 1999.
  • Session Chair for a session titled, “Numerical Methods for Linear Systems Analysis”,  at the 33rd IEEE CDC (Conference on Decision  and Control), Dec. 1994.
  • A Member of the Structural Control Committee at American Institute of Structural Control, 2000.

 

Invited Lectures (selective)

  • Numerous invited lectures and seminars, in addition to a lot of the conference presentations.
  • S.-G. Wang was invited to present a lecture at the 4th Annual Asia-Pacific Summer School (APSS) in Smart Structures Technology held at Tongji University, Shanghai, 7-28 ~8-17, 2011.International graduate students from US, China, Japan, and Korea participated in this program, funded by NSF, NSFC, JSPS, JST, KOSEF, and SISTeC, respectively.His lecture was on August 1, 2011: (a) “Robust Structural Control” and (b) “Effective LiDAR Damage Detection Algorithms”.[The 1st APSS was at KAIST in South Korea; the 2nd APSS was at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in US; and the 3rd APSS was at University of Tokyo in Japan].

 

Invited Speaker (selective)

  • S.-G. Wang, Invited Speaker, to present his award winning project “Improvements to NCDOT’s Wetland Prediction Model”, State Department of Transportation High Value Research, 2015 AASHTO RAC Awarded “Sweet 16” High Value Research Project Poster (P16-2053), at the TRB 95th Annual Meeting, National Academies of Sciences • Engineering • Medicine, Washington DC, Jan. 11, 2016.

 

NSF Site Review Team Member

  • NSF Site Review Team Member for one NSF NEES Site Review, March 2011.
  • Review Team Member for the NSF NEES Site Review and Evaluation to the NEES Board of Directors and ultimately NSF, Nov. 2008.

 

A Reviewer for more than 30 International Journals and Several International Conference Proceedings

More than 30 Journals, including

  1.    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control;
  2.    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics;
  3.    IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems;
  4.    IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics;
  5.    IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation;
  6.    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics;
  7.    IEEE Transactions on VLSI
  8.    IFAC Automatica;
  9.    AIAA J. Guidance, Control, Dynamics;
  10.  ASCE J. Engineering Mechanics;
  11.  ASME J. Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control;
  12.  ASME J. Vibration and Acoustics;
  13.  Int. J. Computers & Mathematics with Applications;
  14.  Int. J. Control, Automation and Systems;
  15.  Int. J. Control and Intelligent Systems;
  16.  Int. J. Information Science;
  17.  Int. J. Mathematical and Computer Modelling
  18.  Int. J. Optimal Control Applications and Methods;
  19.  Int. J. Structural Control;
  20.  Int. J. Structural Control & Health Monitoring;
  21.  Int. J. Systems Science;
  22.  Int. J. Time-Critical Computing Systems;
  23.  IET J. Control Theory and Applications;
  24.  J. Franklin Institute;
  25.  J. Mathematical Control and Information;
  26.  J. Real Time Systems;
  27.  J. Systems Science & Mathematics;
  28.  Springer J. Control Theory and Technology (J. Control Theory and Applications);
  29.  SCI J. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (DCDS);
  30.  SIAM J. Control and Optimization

 

*IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control)

 

More than 10 Major International Conference Proceedings, e.g.,

  1.   IFAC World Congress (International Federation of Automatic Control);
  2.   ACC (American Control Conference);
  3.   IEEE  CDC  (Conference on Decision and Control);
  4.   IEEE  ICRA (International Conference of Robotics and Automation);
  5.   IEEE CCA (Conference on Control and Applications);
  6.   IEEE ICCAS (International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems);
  7.   IEEE ISIC (International Symposium on Intelligent Control);
  8.   IEEE MSC (Multi-conference on Systems and Control, Control Systems Society);
  9.   IEEE ECC (European Control Conference);
  10. IEEE CCDC (Chinese Conference on Decision and Control);
  11. IEEE CCC (Chinese Control Conference);
  12. IASTED ISC (Intelligent Systems Control);
  13. SICE-ICASE & SICE-ICCAS International Joint Conference (Korea); and
  14. BISBC (Bio-Inspired Systems and Brain-Like Computer).

 

Professional Memberships:

IEEE (Life Sr. M. since 2020;  Sr.M. since 1997;  Membership since 1993)
Tau Beta Pi
Sigma Xi
ASME

 

Member of the Structural Control Committee, American Institute of Structural Control, 2000 ~

 

Member of Sichuan Headquarter Office of Earthquake Prevention and Disaster Mitigation, 1976.