Dr Xie Lihua received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology in 1983 and 1986, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1992.
Dr Xie joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 1992 where he is currently a Professor. He held teaching appointments in the Department of Automatic Control, Nanjing University of Science and Technology from 1986 to 1989. He also held visiting appointment with the University of Melbourne in 1999. He is currently an adjunct Professor of Harbin Institute of Technology and a guest professor of Xiamen University. He has published about 130 journal papers and co-authored (with C. Du) the monograph H-infinity Control and Filtering of Two-dimensional Systems (Springer, 2002). His research has been well cited by research community worldwide with SCI index of more than 800.
Dr Xie is currently an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, and Journal of Control Theory and Applications. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of IEE Proceedings on Control Theory and Applications. He served as an associate editor of the Conference Editorial Board, IEEE Control Systems Society from 2000 to 2005. He is a senior member of IEEE and Fellow of IES.
