Gang Tao

Professor

Contact
Thornton Hall - E311
351 McCormick Road
PO Box 400743
Charlottesville, VA 22904-1000

Phone: (434) 924-4586
FAX: (434) 924-8818
Email: gt9s@virginia.edu

Home Page:
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~gt9s

Summary:
Dr. Gang Tao's teaching and research interests are mainly in control systems. He has also taught various courses in electrical engineering and applied mathematics. His research has been focused on adaptive control, a modern control methodology which is able to effectively deal with uncertainties of dynamic systems and has desired capacities for advanced control system applications such as aircraft and spacecraft flight control.For more information, please visit Gang Tao's Homepage.

Background:
Gang Tao received his B.S. (EE)degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1982, M.S. (EE,CpE and Applied Math) degrees and Ph.D. (EE) degree from the University of Southern California during 1984-1989. He was a visiting assistant professor at Washington State University from 1989 to 1991, an assistant research engineer at the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1991 to 1992. Since August 1992, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia, where he is now a a full professor.

He worked in the areas of adaptive control, with particular interests in adaptive control of systems with multiple inputs and outputs and with nonsmooth nonlinearities and actuator failures, in stability and robustness of adaptive control systems, and in passivity characterizations of control systems.He authored the 2003 Wiley textbook "Adaptive Control Design and Analysis", co-authored the 1996 Wiley book "Adaptive Control of Systems with Actuator and Sensor Nonlinearities", the 2003 Springer book "Control of Sandwich Nonlinear Systems" and the 2004 Springer book "Adaptive Control of Systems with Actuator Failures", and co-edited the 2001 Springer book "Adaptive Control of Nonsmooth Dynamic Systems". He published over 230 journal and conference papers and book chapters on different topics of adaptive control. He also worked on adaptive control and estimation of robotic teleoperation, magnetic bearing, artificial heart pump, and real-time computing systems. Recently, he has been working on the application of adaptive control to compensation of uncertain actuator failures and nonlinearities and uncertain structural damages of aircraft systems, for resilient and autonomous flight control.

He is currently an associate editor for Automatica and a subject editor for International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing (for which he was also a guest editor for a 1997 special issue on Adaptive Systems with Nonsmooth Nonlinearities). He was an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control from 1996 to 1999. He organized and chaired the 2001 International Symposium on Adaptive and Intelligent Systems and Control, held in Charlottesville, Virginia. He also organized invited sessions for 1996 IEEE CDC and 1999 IEEE CCA on adaptive control of systems with nonsmooth nonlinearities. He served on numerous international conferences' technical committees and as the technical conference co-chair for IEEE SoutheastCon 2007.

He is a Fellow of IEEE.

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