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is a full professor at the East China University of Science and Technology. He specializes in the field of advanced control. He has served as the lead control engineer on several advanced process control projects, such as ethylene crackers, ethylene distillation and propylene distillation. He has published 15 papers and holds two patents in the process control area. He was awarded the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2009. He received his BS degree in 1997 and his PhD in 2002, both in industrial automation from Northeastern University in Shenyang, China.

is a full professor and also the deputy director of the Institute of Automation in the East China University of Science and Technology. She has more than 15 years of experience in modeling and optimization of chemical plants. Dr. Du has published 60 papers and holds 20 patents in this area. She was awarded the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2002, 2005 and 2009. Dr. Du holds a PhD in control theory and control engineering from the East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai, China.

is a full professor and vice president of the East China University of Science and Technology. He has extensive project experience in the design and implementation of distributed control system-resident APC, inferential control and optimization strategies as applied to petrochemical processes (olefins, aromatics, specialty chemicals). He has published more than 300 papers and holds 25 patents. He was awarded the “National Science and Technology Progress Award” in 2002, 2005 and 2009. Dr. Qian received his BS degree in 1988 and his PhD in 1995, both in industrial automation from the East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai, China.