Group Members

Diagnosis, Flight Control and Simulation (DFCS) Lab. &

Networked Autonomous Vehicles (NAV) lab.

Concordia University

 

Photo: Partial group members with Prof. Ross Barmish (U. of Wisconsin) during his visit to the lab on 2011-03-17

 

Photo: Partial group members after the group meeting on 2015-04-13

 

Photo: Partial group members on the trip to the La Mauricie National Park on 2017-10-22

 

 

Download the Lab Brochure and a Poster here: DFCS and NAV Labs;   Poster about group’s research works presented at IFAC Safeprocess2015

 

Dr. Youmin Zhang, Professor, P.Eng., Fellow IEEE, Fellow CSME, Senior Member AIAA, Member ASME, Member CASI, Member AUVSI/USC

 

·       Associate Editor, Drone Systems and Applications (Canadian Science Publishing) (2023- )

·       Editorial Board Member, CAAI Transactions on Intelligent Systems (2023- )

·       Associate Editor, Industrial Artificial Intelligence (2022- )

·       Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2022- )

·       Editorial Board Member and Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - II: Express Briefs (2022- )

·       Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks & Learning Systems (2nd term; 2022- )

·       Editorial Board Member and Associate Editor, Security and Safety (2021- )

·       Board Member of Governors and Regional Representative (North America), Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (2021- )

·       Regional Editor North and South America, International Journal of Aerospace System Science and Engineering (2021- )

·       Unmanned Systems Technology (2021- )

·       Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Guidance, Navigation and Control (2020- )

·       Editorial Board Member, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity (2020- )

·       Editorial Board Member, IET Cyber-Systems and Robotics (2019- )

·       Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks & Learning Systems (2019-2021)

·       Honorary Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Instrumentation, Automation and Systems (2018-)

·       Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Instrumentation, Automation and Systems (2013-2018)

·       Executive Advisory Board Member and Regional Representative (North America), Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (2012-2021)

·       Editorial Board Member and Editor, Unmanned Systems (2012- )

·       Editorial Advisory Board Member, International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems (2012- )

·       Editorial Board Member, Journal of Unmanned System Technology (2012- )

·       Editorial Board Member and Editor of Journal of Aeronautics & Aerospace Engineering (2012- )

·       Editorial Board Member and Editor of Journal of Modern Traffic and Transportation Engineering Research (2012- )

·       Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Aerospace Engineering (2010- )

·       Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, 2008-2011

 

·       President of the ISIUS (International Society of Intelligent Unmanned Systems), 2019-2022

·       Vice-President of the ISIUS (International Society of Intelligent Unmanned Systems), 2017-2019

·       Executive Committee Member of the ICUAS Association Inc. (International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems), since 2013

·       Steering Committee Member of the ISAS (International Symposium on Autonomous Systems), since 2017

·       Member of the AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Infotech@Aerospace Program Committee (PC) on Unmanned Systems

·       Member of the IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Technical Committee (TC) on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes (SAFEPROCESS)

·       Member of the Technical Committee (TC) on Chinese Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes (Chinese SAFEPROCESS)

·       Member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee (TC) on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (IEEE RAS TC ARUAV)

·       Member of the ASME/IEEE Technical Committee (TC) on Mechatronics and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA)

 

 

1)     Dr. Mahmoud Hussein, June 2024 – June 2025 (Co-supervised with Profs. Zhaoheng Liu and Qingson Wang at ETS, Canada)

2)     Dr. Hamed Badihi, Dec. 2016 – June 2017; July 2017 – June 2019 (Concordia Horizon PDF) – Oct. 2019 (Currently at Tampere University, Finland as an Assistant Professor, since 2024)

3)     Dr. Chi Yuan, Sept. 2018 – Aug. 2019

4)     Dr. Zhixiang Liu, Sept. 2017 – Aug. 2018

5)     Dr. Xiang Yu, March 2014 – Feb. 2016 – June 2018 (Currently as a Professor at Beihang University)

6)     Dr. Ke Yan, Dec. 2014 – Dec. 2015 (under the financial support of Quebec-China Postdoc Merit Scholarship Program; Co-supervised with Dr. Ramin Sedaghati at MIE in Concordia University; Currently as an Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University)

7)     Dr. Narendra Gollu, Oct. 2010 – Dec. 2014

8)     Dr. Yuying Guo, Feb. 2013 – Feb. 2014 (Associate Professor, Southwest University of Science and Technology, China; Supported financially by CSC)

9)     Dr. Adriana Vargas Martínez, Sept. 2012 – Aug. 2013 (Postdoctoral Fellowship Award of Mexican government scholarship by CONACyT)

10)  Dr. Abbas Chamseddine, Oct. 2012 – Dec. 2012 (Research Associate)

11)  Dr. Hasan Mehrjerdi, Dec. 2010 – Nov. 2011 (Currently as an Associate Professor at Qatar University)

12)  Dr. Zhongyu Zhao, Sept. 2010 – Jan. 2011 (Co-supervised with Dr. Wen-Fang Xie at MIE in Concordia University)

13)  Dr. Qinglei Hu, June 2010 – June 2011 (Currently as a Professor at Beihang University, China; Co-supervised with Dr. Chun-Yi Su at MIE in Concordia University)

14)  Dr. Ying Feng, 2010 – 2011 (Co-supervised with Dr. Chun-Yi Su at MIE in Concordia University)

15)  Dr. Hojjat A. Izadi, Since Jan. 2010 (Co-supervised with Dr. Brandon W. Gordon at MIE in Concordia University)

16)  Dr. Sharifuddin Mondal, Nov. 2009 – July 2010 (Co-supervised with Dr. Wen-Fang Xie at MIE in Concordia University; Now a Teacher in India)

17)  Dr. Abbas Chamseddine, Sept. 2009 – Sept. 2010 (Co-supervised with Dr. Camille-Alain Rabbath at DRDC); NSERC - Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, Sept. 2010 – Sept. 2012

18)  Dr. Nicolas Lechevin, May 2008 – April 2009 (Co-supervised with Dr. Camille-Alain Rabbath at DRDC; Now a Research Scientist at DRDC)

 

 

Ph.D. Students (8+17)

 

Current Students (8):

1)       Neda Shamaeian, Jan. 2024 (2023/4- ) (Co-supervision with Dr. Hamid Taghavifar at MIAE of Concordia University)

2)       Xiaobo Wu, Sept. 2021 (2021/2- ) (under the financial support of China Scholarship Council (CSC) program

3)       Qiaomeng Qin, Sept. 2021 (2021/2- ) (under the financial support of China Scholarship Council (CSC) program

4)       Jin Li, Sept. 2020 (2020/2- )

5)       Masuda Tonima, May 2019 (2019/1- ) (under the financial support of MITACS Accelerate program for her entire PhD program with collaboration and support of the industrial partner iMi)

6)       Linhan Qiao, Jan. 2019 (2018/4- ) (under the financial support of China Scholarship Council (CSC) program

7)       Anim Hossain, Sept. 2017 (2017/2- )

8)      Yufei Fu, May 2017 (2017/1- ) (under the financial support of MERIT SCHOLARSHIP Award)

 

Graduated Students (17):

1)       Dr. Mahmoud Hussein, PhD Thesis defensed on Aug. 29, 2023 (Co-supervised with Prof. Zhaoheng Liu at ETS, Canada)

2)       Dr. Saeedreza Jadidi, Sept. 2017 (2017/2) – April 2023 (Thesis defensed on April 17, 2023; Currently as PDF at University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

3)       Dr. Yintao Zhang, May 2016 (2016/1) – Jan. 2023 (Thesis defensed on Jan. 10, 2023; under the financial support of Concordia University-China Scholarship Council (CSC) program)

4)       Dr. Zhewen Xing, Jan. 2018 (2017/4) – Jan. 2023 (Thesis defensed on Jan. 9, 2023; under the financial support of China Scholarship Council (CSC) program and co-supervised with Dr. Chun-Yi Su at MIAE)

5)       Dr. Juqi Hu, May 2016 (2016/1) – April 2021 (Thesis defensed on April 20, 2021; Co-supervised with Dr. Subhash Rakheja at MIAE of Concordia University; Currently as an Assistant Professor at Anhui University)

6)       Dr. Ban Wang, Sept. 2014 (2014/2) – Aug. 2018 (Thesis defensed on Aug. 7, 2018; under the financial support of Concordia University-China Scholarship Council (CSC) program; Currently as an Associate Professor at Northwestern Ploytechnical University)

7)       Dr. Chi Yuan, Sept. 2012 (2012/2) – May 2017 (Thesis defensed on May 9, 2017; under the financial support of Concordia University-China Scholarship Council (CSC) program)

8)       Dr. Khaled Shaaban, Jan. 2014 (2013/4) – Dec. 2016 (Thesis defensed on Dec. 2, 2016; under the financial support of Egyptian government scholarship; Currently as an Assistant Professor at MTC, Egypt)

9)       Dr. Zhixiang Liu, Sept. 2012 (2012/2) – Oct. 2016 (Thesis defensed on Oct. 26, 2016; under the financial support of Concordia University-China Scholarship Council (CSC) program)

10)    Dr. Mohamed Atef Kamel, Sept. 2013 (2013/2) – July 2016 (Thesis defensed on July 14, 2016; under the financial support of Egyptian government scholarship; Currently as an Associate Professor at MTC, Egypt)

11)    Dr. Hamed Badihi, Jan. 2012 (2011/4) – May 2016 (Thesis defensed on May 30, 2016; Co-supervised with Dr. Henry Hong at MIE of Concordia University; Currently as an Associate Professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2019-2023)

12)    Dr. Bin Yu, Sept. 2011 (2011/2) – Feb. 2016 (Thesis defensed on Feb. 29, 2016; under the financial support of Concordia University-China Scholarship Council (CSC) program)

13)    Dr. Walaaeldin Ghadiry, March 2013 (2012/4) Aug. 2015 (Thesis defensed on August 31st, 2015; Co-supervised with Dr. Amir G. Aghdam at ECE of Concordia University, under the financial support of Egyptian government scholarship; Currently as an Assistant Professor at MTC, Egypt)

14)    Dr. Iman Sadeghzadeh, Jan. 2010 (2009/4) – Jan. 2015 (Thesis defensed on Jan. 13th, 2015; Senior Engineer with Bombardier Inc., Canada)

15)    Dr. Farid Sharifi, May 2009 (2009/1) – Sept. 2014 (Thesis defensed on Sept. 12th, 2014; Co-supervised with Dr. Amir G. Aghdam at ECE of Concordia University; Currently as a Senior Control System Engineer with Communication and Systems Canada)

16)    Dr. Tao Wang, Jan. 2007 (2006/4) – Dec. 2012 (Thesis defensed on Dec. 7th, 2012; Co-supervised with Dr. Wen-Fang Xie at MIE of Concordia University)

17)    Dr. Narendra Gollu, 2007-2008 (Co-supervised with Dr. A. Ng at Canadian Space Agency (CSA))

 

Master of Applied Science (M.A.Sc.) Students (4+22)

 

Current Students (4):

1)       Radhouen Khmiri, Since May 2024 (2024/1- )

2)       Huajun Dong, Since Sept. 2023 (2023/2- )

3)       Amin Taherzadeh, Since Sept. 2023 (2023/2- )

4)       Erfan Dilfanian, Since Sept. 2022 (2022/2- )

 

Graduated Students (22):

1)       Shun Li, Since Jan. 2021 (2020/4) – May 2023 (Thesis defensed on May 10, 2023; Co-supervised with Dr. Jun Yan at CIISE)

2)       Tianqi Yang, Sept. 2019 (2019/2) – Aug. 2022 (Thesis defensed on Aug. 31, 2022).

3)       Hossein Jamshidi, Jan. 2019 – Aug. 2021 (Thesis defensed on Aug. 4, 2021).

4)       Vinayak Deshpande, Sept. 2019 (2019/2) – April 2021 (Thesis defensed on April 28, 2021); Awards: Tri-Agency Canada Graduate Scholarship: Master's Award (2020-2021); Concordia Graduate Scholarship in Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Award (2019-2020).

5)       Mohsen Sadi, Jan. 2019 (2018/4) – Dec. 2020 (Thesis defensed on Dec. 23, 2020; Co-supervised with Dr. Wen-Fang Xie at MIAE)

6)       Azam Ghamari, Sept. 2019 (2019/2) – Mar. 2020 (Thesis defensed on March 27, 2020; Co-supervised with Dr. Shahin Hashtrudi Zad at ECE)

7)       Xian Wang, May 2014 (2014/1 - 2019) (Withdrawn due to job duty)

8)       Danyang Xu, May 2017 (2017/1) – Feb. 2019 (Thesis defensed on Feb. 13, 2019)

9)       Mohhamadali Askari Hemmat (Thesis defensed on Aug. 6, 2018)

10)    Jing Qiao, Sept. 2014 (2014/2) – June 2018 (Thesis defensed on June 19, 2018)

11)    Yu Fu, Since Sept. 2013 (Thesis defensed on Feb. 19, 2016; 2013/2)

12)    Javad Soltani Rad, Jan. 2013 (2012/4) – April 2015) (Thesis defensed on April 15, 2015; Co-supervising with Dr. Chevy Chen at MIE of Concordia University)

13)    Mohammad Mohajerani, Jan. 2012 (2011/4) – Sept. 2014) (Thesis defensed at Sept. 12th, 2014)

14)    Ensieh Sadat Hosseini Rooteh, May 2011 (2011/1) – Sept. 2013 (Thesis defensed on Sept. 10, 2013)

15)    Mahyar Abdolhosseini, Sept. 2010 (2020/2) – Sept. 2012 (Thesis defensed on Sept. 26, 2012; Co-supervising with Dr. Camille-Alain Rabbath at DRDC)

16)    Mohammad Hadi Amoozgar, Sept. 2010 (2010/2) – Aug. 2012 (Thesis defensed on Aug. 7, 2012)

17)    Tong Li (Thesis defensed on April 29, 2011; Co-supervised with Dr. Brandon W. Gordon at MIE of Concordia University)

18)    Alaeddin Bani Milhim, May 2008 (2008/1) – Nov. 2010 (Thesis defensed on Nov. 26, 2010; Co-supervised with Dr. Camille-Alain Rabbath at DRDC)

19)    Xiaobing Zhang, Sept. 2007 (2007/2) – May 2010 (Thesis defensed on May 6, 2010; Co-supervised with Dr. Chun-Yi Su at MIE of Concordia University)

20)    Nastaran Nayebpanah, Sept. 2007 – Jan. 2010 (Thesis defensed on Jan. 15, 2010; Co-supervised with Dr. Luis Rodrigues at MIE of Concordia University)

21)    Ling Ma, Since Jan. 2007 (Thesis defensed on Nov. 30, 2010)

22)    Qing-Li Zhou, Jan. 2007 – July 2009 (Thesis defensed on July 17, 2009)

 

Master of Aerospace Engineering (M.A.Eng.) Students

 

Graduated Students:

 

1)     Ivan Mravlag, A Review of Health Monitoring, Fault Diagnosis, and Distributed Control of Gas Turbine Engines, May 2012.

2)     Sunil Manjunath, 2011

3)     Ankit C. Mehta, 2011

4)     Amritpal Kaur, Guidance, Navigation and Control of Autonomous Mobile Robots in Formation, 2010

5)     Wei Huang, Optimal Path Planning of UAVs under Wind Effect and Emergency Situation, Dec. 2009

6)     Meng-Meng Xu, Quadrotor UAV Optimal Path Planning and Simulation, Aug. 2009.

 

Master of Electrical Engineering (M.E.Eng.) Students

 

Graduated Students:

 

1)     Hossein Karimian (ECE), Project Title: Fault Diagnosis and Recovery for CNC Machines Based on Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Sept. 2012.

 

 

Undergraduate Student Capstone Projects

 

1)     Kai Grohe, Amine Boumar, Lina Kojakian, J. Alex Ford, James Ngo, and Ilan Weintraub, Design and Fabrication of Micro Air Vehicle (MAV), 2010-2011.

2)     Lichan Zhu, Zhong Zhang, Jiang Zhu, Francois Levesque, and Wilson Josiah, Quad-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, 2008-2009 (Co-supervised with Dr. Henry Hong at MIE).

3)     Patrick Demers-Stoddart, Brian Lee, Giancarlo Zingaro, Thomas Dean, and Robert Salvatore Ricci, Design and Fabrication of a VTOL Aircraft, 2007-2008.

4)     ……

 

Summer Students

 

1)     Ali Tfaily (2010)

2)     Eva Abdul Malak (2010)

3)     Zhong Zhang (2008)

 

 

Visiting PhD Students (29)

 

1)       Yacun Guan, Oct. 2019 – Oct. 2020 (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Supported financially by Chinese Government CSC Scholarship for one year)

2)       Hejia Gao, May 2019 – June 2020 (University of Science & Technology Beijing, China, Supported financially by Chinese Government CSC Scholarship for one year; Currently as an Assistant Professor at Anhui University)

3)       Zhouyu Zhang, Mar. 2019 – Mar. 2020 (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Supported financially by Chinese Government CSC Scholarship for one year)

4)       Guanyu Chen, Oct. 2019 – Dec. 2019 (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Supported financially by NUAA for three months)

5)       Wenjing Ren, Aug. 2019 – Nov. 2019 (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Supported financially by NUAA for three months)

6)       Dong Zhao, Aug. 2019 – Nov. 2019 (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Supported financially by NUAA for three months)

7)       Xiaobin Zhou, Dec. 2018 – Nov. 2019 (Hunan University, China, Supported financially by Chinese Government CSC Scholarship for one year)

8)       Naiying Xie, Sept. 2018 – Oct. 2019 (University of Science & Technology Beijing, China, Supported financially by Chinese Government CSC Scholarship for one year)

9)       Huibin Wang, Sept. 2017 – Nov. 2019 (Northwestern Ploytechnical University, China, Supported financially by Chinese Government CSC Scholarship for two years)

10)    Ziquan Yu, Sept. 2017 – Mar. 2019 (Northwestern Ploytechnical University, China, Supported financially by Chinese Government CSC Scholarship for 18 months; Thesis defensed on 2019-08-07; Currently as a Research Associate Professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA))

11)    Shuyi Shao, Mar. 2018 – Mar. 2019 (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Supported financially by Chinese Government CSC Scholarship for one year; Currently as an Associate Professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA))

12)    Chenglong Zhu, Sept. 2017 – Aug. 2018 (Southeast University, China, Supported financially by Chinese Government CSC Scholarship for one year)

13)    Yujiang Zhong, Dec. 2016 – Nov. 2018 (Northwestern Ploytechnical University, China, Supported financially by Chinese Government CSC Scholarship for two years; Thesis defensed on 2019-09-04)

14)    Lidong Zhang, Sept. 2016 – Aug. 2018 (Fudan University, China; Supported financially by Chinese government through CSC; Currently as a Research Engineer at a Research Institute in Shanghai)

15)    Xiaomin Ma, Oct. 2016 – Oct. 2017 (Xi'an University of Technology, China, Supported financially by Chinese Government CSC Scholarship for one year; Currently as a Lecturer at Xi'an University of Engineering)

16)    Lingxia Mu, Oct. 2015 – Oct. 2017 (Northwestern Ploytechnical University, China, Supported financially by Chinese Government CSC Scholarship for two years; Currently as an Associate Professor at Xi'an University of Technology)

17)    Zengwang Jin, Oct. 2015 – Oct. 2017 (University of Science & Technology Beijing, China, Supported financially by Chinese Government CSC Scholarship for two years; Currently as an Associate Professor at Northwestern Ploytechnical University)

18)    Shuyi Shao, Mar. 2017 – Sept. 2017 (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Supported financially by NUAA for 6 months; Currently as an Associate Professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA))

19)    Yiqun Dong, Sept. 2014 – Aug. 2016 (Fudan University, China, Supported financially by Chinese Government CSC Scholarship for two years; Currently as an Associate Professor at Fudan University)

20)    Tao Yu, Nov. 2013 – Dec. 2015 (Northwestern Ploytechnical University, China, Supported financially by Chinese Government CSC Scholarship for two years)

21)    Jihao Duan, Nov. 2012 – Oct. 2014 (Northwestern Ploytechnical University, China, Supported financially by Chinese Government CSC Scholarship for two years; Currently as a Lecturer at Xi'an University of Technology)

22)    Huang Jing, April 2013 – Aug. 2015 (Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Supported financially by Chinese Government CSC Scholarship for one and half years)

23)    Gang Liu, April 2013 – Aug. 2015 (Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Supported financially by Chinese Government CSC Scholarship for one and half years)

24)    Qingxian Jia, April 2013 – Oct. 2013 (Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China; Supported financially by HIT for 6 months; Currently as a Lecturer at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)

25)    Patricia Acosta, April 2013 – Oct. 2013 (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico; Supported financially by Mexican Government Scholarship CONACyT for 6 months)

26)    Ismael Minchala, Sept. 2012 – Aug. 2013 (Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; Supported financially by Mexican government scholarship CONACyT, Graduated in 2014)

27)    Ying Jin, Since Sept. 2011 – July 2013 (Lecturer, Northeastern University, China, PhD thesis defensed in July 2013; Currently as an Associate Professor at Northeast University)

28)    Jinhua Fan, Sept. 2010 – Sept. 2012 (National Defence Science and Technology University, China; Supported financially by Chinese Government CSC Scholarship for two years, Graduated in 2013)

29)    Sijun Ye, Sept. 2007 – Sept. 2008 (Northwestern Ploytechnical University, China, Supported financially by Chinese Government CSC Scholarship for one year, a a Research Engineer at a Research Institute in Xi’an)

 

            Visiting Scholars/Visiting Researchers/Visiting Professors (17)

 

1)       Dr. Yan Liu, Sept. 2017 – Aug. 2018 (Associate Professor, Northwestern Ploytechnical University, China; Supported financially by Chinese government through CSC)

2)       Dr. Rui Wang, March 2017 – Oct. 2017 (Associate Professor, Civil Aviation University of China; Supported financially by Chinese government) 

3)       Dr. Danjiang Chen, July 2016 – Dec. 2016 (Associate Professor, Zhejiang Wanli University, China; Supported financially by Chinese government)

4)      Dr. Jing Wan, Jan. 2016 – Jan. 2017 (Associate Professor, Fudan University, China; Supported financially by Chinese government through CSC)

5)      Dr. Chunling Wu, March 2015 – Feb. 2016 (Associate Professor, Chang’an University, China; Supported financially by Chinese government through CSC)

6)      Dr. Hui Xu, Sept. 2014 – Aug. 2015 (Associate Professor, Northwestern Ploytechnical University, China; Supported financially by Chinese government through CSC)

7)      Dr. Zhi Xu, June 2014 – May 2015 (Associate Professor, Northwestern Ploytechnical University, China; Supported financially by Chinese government through CSC)

8)      Dr. Fan Wen, May 2014 – April 2015 (Assistant Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Supported financially by Chinese government through CSC)

9)      Dr. Feng Yang, March 2014 – Feb. 2015 (Associate Professor, Northwestern Ploytechnical University, China; Supported financially by Chinese government through CSC) 

10)    Dr. Liangkuan Zhu, Oct. 2013 – Oct. 2014 (Professor, Northeast Forestry University, China; Supported financially by Chinese government through CSC)

11)    Dr. Xiaojun Xing, March 2013 – Feb. 2014 (Associate Professor, Northwestern Ploytechnical University, China; Supported financially by Chinese government through CSC) 

12)    Dr. Yingmin Yi, March 2013 – Feb. 2014 (Professor, Xi’an University of Technology, China; Supported financially by XAUT)

13)    Dr. Xijun Chen, Sept. 2012 – Aug. 2013 (Associate Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Supported financially by Chinese government through CSC)

14)    Dr. Didier Theilliol, Nov. 2011 – Aug. 2012 (Full Professor, CRAN, Université of Lorraine, Nancy, France (on the sabbatical leave year))

15)    Dr. Yaohong Qu, Sept. 2009 – Sept. 2010 (Associate Professor, Northwestern Ploytechnical University, China; Supported financially by Chinese government through CSC)

16)    Dr. Jing Li, Sept. 2008 – Sept. 2009 (Professor; Xi’an Technological University, China; Supported financially by Chinese Government)

17)    Dr. Didier Theilliol, Sept. 2008, (Full Professor, CRAN, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy 1, France; Supported financially by French Government)