Research Interests and Expertise

System identification and model validation for robust control; Modeling and control of nonlinear uncertain systems with industrial applications; Nonlinear bifurcations and compressor control for aeroengines; Multirate digital signal processing and its applications.

Education

Ph.D. August 1988 Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota

M.S. August 1985 Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota

B.S. January 1982 Electrical Automation, Donghua University

Professional Experience

Coughlin-CLECO Endowed Professor, College of Engineering, Louisiana state University. (February 2003 -Present)

Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. (Jan. 2002 – June 2002)

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Louisiana State University.(Aug. 2000- Present)

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Louisiana state University. (Aug. 1995 – Aug. 2000)

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Louisiana State University.(Aug. 1990-Aug. 1995)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Wright State University.(1998 - 1999)

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Rolls Royce UTC for Heat Transfer and Aerodynamics, University of Oxford, (Sept.1988 - July 1990)

Professional Activities

FOSR Summer Faculty Research Associate in 1994 at Eglin AFB, Florida. AFOSR Summer Faculty Research Associate in 1995 at WPAFB, Dayton, Ohio.

Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1998-2000. Associate Editor for SIAM Journal on Control and Optimizations, 2005-2007. Associate Editor for Automatica, 2006-2009.

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace & Electronics Systems, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems, AIAA Journal on Guidance and Control, Systems & Control Letters, Automatica, SIAM Journal on Optimizations and Control, International Journal of Control, International Journal on Robust and Nonlinear Control.

Proposal reviewer for NSF (1991-1994), Department of Energy (2001), AFOSR (1993 – 2000), and Hong Kong Research Council (2000-2007). Proposal review panels for NSF (2003-2007).

Member of the Program Committee for 34th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, December 1995, and for 1999 American Control Conference, San Diego, CA, June 1999.

Member of the International Program Committee for IFAC YAC’95.

Member of the International Program Committee for 2000 Asian Control Conference.

Member of the IFAC Technical Committee in Modeling, Identification and Signal Processing for the 15th IFAC World Congress in 2000.

Member of the Program Committee for The 2002 International Conference on Control and Automation.

Member of the IFAC Technical Committee in Modeling, Identification and Signal Processing for the 16th IFAC World Congress in 2005.

Member of 1994, 1995 Red Ribbon Panel (for Best Student Paper Award), IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

Publicity Chair of the Program Committee for the 28th Southern Symposium on System Theory in 1996.

Session chairs for 30th, 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 34th, 35th, 36th, 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998 American Control Conference.

Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Selected Publications
E. Badran and G. Gu, “Optimal channel equalization for MIMO time-varying channel” International Journal of Signal Processing, vol.4, no. 2, pp. 77-84, 2007.

G. Gu, X. Gao, J. He, and M. Naraghi-Pour, “Parametric modeling of wideband and ultra wideband channels in frequency domain,” to appear in IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology, 2007.

G. Gu, P.R. Chandler, C.J. Schumacher, A. Sparks, and M. Pachter, “Optimal cooperative sensing using a team of UAVs,” IEEE Trans. Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 42, pp. 1446-1458, Oct. 2006.

Research Sponsors
Clarkson Aerospace

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