Danchi Jiang Senior Lecturer in Communication Technology and Computer Systems Engineering School of Engineering University of Tasmania Private Bag 65, Hobart, Tasmania Australia Telephone: (61) 3 6226 2145 Email:Danchi.Jiang@utas.edu.au We http://www.utas.edu.au/engineering/people/dr-danchi-jiang Education PhD in Systems Engineering, Australian National University (Canberra, Australia), April 1997. MSc in Control Systems and Applications, East China Normal University (Shanghai, China), July 1990. BSc in Mathematics (with minor in computational mathematics), Wuhan University (Wuhan, China), July 1984. Employment History 3/2005-present, Senior Lecturer (Level C, Tenured) and chair in Computer Systems Engineering, School of Engineering, Registered supervisor of PhD students, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia. 11/2003-2/2005, Researcher (Level B), Systems Engineering and Complex Systems Program, National ICT Australia Ltd-Canberra Node. Canberra, ACT, Australia. Also Adjunct Research Fellow (level B), Department of Systems Engineering, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia. 03/2003-11/2003, Application Support Specialist, I & T Division, Corporate Services, City of Toronto. 09/2002-02/2003, Consultant, TiCORP Interactive (a division of Anzer IT Solutions), Missisauga, Ontario, Canada. 07/2000-08/2002, Application Analyst. R & D /Professional Services, Delano Technology Corp. Markham, Ontario, Canada. 01/99-07/2000, Programmer Analyst. Daedalian Systems Group Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 11/96-08/98, Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 1995-1996, PhD Student/Graduate Assistant. CRC (Cooperative Research Centre) for Robust and Adaptive Systems. Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. 1994-1995, PhD Student/Tutor (Part-Time). Department of Mathematics, the University of Western Australia. 07/1990-02/1994, Lecturer. Department of Mathematics, Guizhou University, Guizhou Province, P. R. of China. Awards Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1996-1998. Chinese University of Hong Kong.
ADCOS Scholarship, 1994-1998. Australian Agency for International Development. First Prize, 1995. IEEE ACT Section Engineering Student Technical Paper Contest, postgraduate category. Research Interests Research interests include: Advanced signal processing, system learning, optimization, and optimal decision making in Euclidean or non-euclidean spaces for deterministic or stochastic systems with application in computer vision, wireless communication, or renewable energy systems, etc. To list a few: Rician noise removing and intelligent image process for MRI medical images. Neuro-dynamic programming for renewable energy system design and administration Optimal MIMO design for wireless communication. Self-concordant functions on smooth manifold for fast optimization. etc Teaching Experiences Multiple undergraduate teaching course units including Reliability Engineering, Communication Systems 1 (Analog communication), Advanced Communication Systems (Digital Communication), Digital Image Processing, Computer and Data networks, Intelligent Systems and Signal Processing, etc, School of Engineering, University of Tasmania. Neuro-Dynamic Programming, certified graduate course, Australian National University. Signals and Systems, Digital Communication Systems, Communication and Computer Networks, Digital Image Processing and Computer Vision, Computer system design, Computational intelligence and signal processing. University of Tasmania. Ph.D. projects supervising: Advanced multi-band modulation technology for underwater communication systems Intelligent Knee Cartilage Detection, 3D Image Reconstruction and Volume Calculation from MRI Images The Evaluation of High and Low Resolution Satellite Sensores and the Development of Applied Image Interpretation Fusion Techniques Neuro-Dynamic Programming with Application to Renewable Energy System Quantitative Analysis of Osteoarthritis Severity in MRI Images Automatic medicine dispenser. Interactive image processing for medical images based on MPEG4. Optimization method in non-euclidean spaces with application in signal processing and control. Master projects supervising Intelligent medical image processing for diagnosis About 20 Undergraduate/honors student projects supervising at Australian National University and University of Tasmania, partially listed: Particle filter for flood prediction Neuro-Dynamic Programming with application to stock trading Power-efficient routing and control for ad hoc wireless ad hoc networks Image reconstruction from messy data obtained using incorrectly calibrated camera NS-2 simulation for ad hoc wireless networks Survey on BPL communication Image processing for fisheries
Operations Research, 3-rd year undergraduate course, The University of Western Australia. Professional Activities Member of IEEE since 1996. Member of ACICT since 2005. Member of Technical Committee of many international conferences International Conference on Communication, Circuits, and Systems, International Symposium on Neural Networks, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, etc. Reviewer for IEEE T-NN, Int J. Control, Automatica, IEEE T-AC, etc. Publicity chairs of international conferences including Fifth and Sixth International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence, Third IEEE International Conference on Information Science and Technology, etc. Since 2012, he has been appointed as Associate Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Biometrics and Bioinformatics (IJBB). Publications (Partial list) Refereed Journal Papers 1. D. Jiang, Intelligent computing for real-time solution of time-varying linear equations, Int. J. Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, Vol. 3, Nos. 3/4, pp.309 318, 2007. 2. D. Jiang, J. B. Moore, and H. Ji, Self-concordant functions on smooth manifolds, Journal of Global Optimization, vol. 38. No. 3, pp. 437-458, 2007. 3. Y. Zhang, D. Jiang, and J. Wang, A recurrent neural network for solving Sylvester equation with time-varying coefficients, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 1053-1063, 2002. 4. D. Jiang and J. Wang, Augmented gradient flows for on-line robust pole assignment via state and output feedback, Automatica, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 279-286, 2002. 5. D. Jiang and J. Wang, On-line learning of dynamic systems in the presence of model mismatch and disturbance, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol.11, no., 6, pp. 1272-1283, 2000. 6. D. Jiang and J. Wang, A recurrent neural network for on-line design of robust optimal filters, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - Part I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, vol. 47, no. 6, pp. 921-926, 2000. 7. D. Jiang and J. Wang, A recurrent neural network for real-time semidefinte programming, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 81-93, 1999. 8. Jun Wang, Qingni Hu, and Dan-chi Jiang, A Lagrangian network for kinematic control of redundant robot manipulators, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 1123-1132, 1999. 9. D. C. Jiang, K. L. Teo and W. Y. Yan, A new computational method for the functional inequality constrained minimax optimization problem, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, vol. 33, pp. 53-63, 1997. 10. Dan-chi Jiang, Wei-yong Yan, K. L. Teo, Sensitivity reduction of mechanical descriptor systems, Trans. ASME, Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control. vol. 119. No. 2, pp. 286-289, 1997. 11. Dan-chi, Jiang, J. B. Moore, A gradient flow approach to decentralized output feedback optimal control, Systems & Control Letters, 27, pp. 223-231, 1996. 12. Dan-chi Jiang, J. B. Moore, Least Squares pole assignment by Memory-less output feedback, Systems and Control Letters. 27, pp. 31-42, 1996.
13. Jiang, D., Zheng, Y., A local disturbance decoupling problem with exponential stability. Control Theory Appl.10, no. 3, pp. 346-350, 1993. Thesis/Dissertation 14. Dan-chi Jiang, Control of Systems with Constraints, PhD thesis, Australian National University, 1996. 15. Dan-chi Jiang, Disturbances Decoupling Problem with Stability for a Class of Nonlinear Control Systems, M.Sc. Dissertations of Mathematics Department of East China Normal University, 1990. Refereed Conference Papers 16. Tran, VH and Jiang, D, Articular Cartilage Segmentation in Noisy MR Images of Human Knee, Proceedings of CIBEC2012, 20-22 Dec 2012, Cairo, Egypt, pp. 20120914181227.1-4. (2012), To appear. 17. Tran, VH and Jiang, D, Automated Background Segmentation for Rician Noise Estimation of Noisy MR Images, Proceedings of CIBEC2012, 20-22 Dec 2012, Cairo, Egypt, pp. 20120914181527.1-4. (2012), To appear. 18. Long, NQ and Jiang, D and Ding, C, Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Automatic Cartilage Segmentation, Proceedings of IWACI2010, 25-27 August, 2010, Suzhou, China, pp. 81-85. ISBN 978-1-4244-6336-7 (2010). 19. Danchi Jiang, A finite step scheme for general near-optimal control-the deterministic case, Proceedings of 17th IFAC World Congress, 6-11 July, 2008, Seoul, Korea, pp. 7949-7953, 2008 20. Nguyen, D and Negnevitsky, M and Jiang, D and de Groot, M*, A model of domestic energy management enabling low-cost technology, Proceedings of AUPEC 2008, 14-17 December 2008, Sydney, Australia, pp. Paper 230, 1-6, 2008. 21. Danchi Jiang, Complex-Value Recurrent Neural Networks for Global Optimization of Beamforming in Multi-Symbol MIMO Communication Systems, Proceedings of ICCSC08, 26-28 May, 2008, Shanghai, China, pp. 1-5. 2008. 22. Danchi Jiang, Complex-Value Recurrent Neural Networks for Global Optimization of Beamforming in Multi-Symbol MIMO Communication Systems, Proceedings of International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Gold Coast, Australia, December 2007. 23. Danchi Jiang, Optimal Bit Loading Algorithm for Power-Line Communication Systems subject to Individual Channel Power Constraints, proceedings of 10 th International Conference on Communication Technology, vol. 2, pp. 1358-1361. November 2006, Guilin, China. 24. Danchi Jiang, A Water-filling Algorithm for Power-Line Communication Systems subject to Individual Channel Power Constraints, Proceedings of 5th Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing, December 2006, Hobart, Australia. 25. Danchi Jiang, A Finite Step Scheme for General Near-Optimal Stochastic Control, Proceedings of 24th American Control Conference, pp. 321-326. June 2005, Portland, 26. Lei Qiu, Danchi Jiang and Leif W. Hanlen, Radio Signal Propagation Prediction Based on Neural Network Learning Algorithm, Australian Communications Theory Workshop 2005, pp. 252-256. February 2-4, 2005, Brisbane, Australia. 27. Danchi Jiang, John B. Moore, Huibo Ji, Self-Concordant Functions for Optimization on Smooth Manifolds, Proceedings of 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Bahamas, December 2004.
28. Danchi Jiang, Analog Computing for Real-Time Solution of Time-Varying Linear Equations, Proc of International Conference on Communications, Circuits, and Systems, pp. 1367-1371. June 2004, Chengdu, China. 29. Danchi Jiang, Jun Wang, A Recurrent Neural Network for Global Asymptotic Tracking Control of Disturbed Nonlinear Systems, Proceedings of American Control Conference, pp. 985 989, vol.2, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 1998. 30. Danchi Jiang and Jun Wang, Stable artificial neural networks for robust pole assignment, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, pp. 348 353, September, 1998, Maryland. 31. Danchi Jiang, Jun Wang, An artificial neural network for real-time computation of semidefinite programming, Proceedings of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, pp. 1640 1645, vol.2, May, Anchorage, Alaska, 1998 32. Dan-chi Jiang, Zhong-Ping Jiang, H_inf almost disturbance decoupling with stability for uncertain nonlinear systems, Proceedings of European Control Conference (ECC'97), 1997. 33. John B. Moore, Dan-chi Jiang, A rank preserving flow approach for quadratic programming subject to quadratic equality constraints, Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speeching, and Signal Processing, pp. 67 70, vol.1. April, 1997, Munich. 34. Danchi Jiang, K. L. Teo and W. Y. Yan, LQ optimal feedback control of constrained systems, Proc. Int. Conf on Optimization: Techniques and Applications, 1995, pp. 681-691, June, Chengdu. Danchi s research has been actively conducting research in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Digital Communication, Signal Processing, System learning and Optimization, etc. His research has significant international impacts with 343 citations (272 of them are made after 2007), according partially collected data at http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=gox4y_waaaaj&hl=en. Grant and Contracted projects Third International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence, Suzhou, China 2010, Grant-Conference Support Scheme, University of Tasmania, 2010. Distributed On-Line Routing and Control for Capacity and Energy Optimization in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, IGRS, University of Tasmania. 2006-2007. Role: Chief investigator. Investigation on cross-segment interference in PLC network, Aurora Energy. Role: Chief investigator. 2007. Road Safety: Driver Drowsiness Detection, National ICT Australia, 2005 Role: initially proposed the project as the chief investigator, terminated because of leaving NICTA to UTAS. DaimlerChrysler AS CRM. 2002. Role: Major designer and developer for user management sub-system. Middleberg: An e-marketing system. 2001. Role: Chief architect and developer for customizing Delano product and database schema, configuration, and deployment. Changepoint: A combined campaign/registration system. 2001. Role: Architect and chief developer for the customer registration subsystem, developer for the response handling and reporting part of the campaign subsystem. Warner Music Campaign Manager: A campaign management. 2001-2002. Role: Application analyst for the system design and development of statistical reporting module. Investigation Tracker for Traffic Control Centre of City of Toronto. 2000. Role: Developer for GIS component.