Mathematics

1. Tianyi Zhao
2. Jiaming Wang
3. Yiting Wang

Thermal Distribution Principle and Nonlinear Optimal Control for HVAC Water System

Dr. Tianyi Zhao received his B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Heating, Gas, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning Engineering subject from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2003, 2005 and 2009, respectively. Since Dec. 2014, Dr. Zhao has been in School of Infrastructure Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, as an associate professor. Dr. Jiaming Wang received his B.E. degree in Thermal Energy and Power Engineering from Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, in 2014, and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Heating, Gas, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning Engineering from Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, in 2018 and 2022, respectively. Since Dec. 2022, Dr. Wang has been in School of Infrastructure Engineering at Dalian University of Technology, as a postdoctoral. Dr. Wang is engaged in the research of decoupling control and distributed collaborative optimization of HVAC systems, taking the complex HVAC systems as research object, mainly studying the system parameters time-delay response characteristics and the component spatial coupling characteristics. The proposed event-driven optimization strategy (SEDO) and the global energy efficiency tradeoff method have high universality and can be directly applied to the existing HVAC systems. Mrs. Yiting Wang received her B.E. degree in Built Environment and Equipment Engineering from Hunan University, Changsha, China, in 2016, and the M.E. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, in 2019. She has been involved in several projects using swarm intelligent building automation technology and has been responsible for the development of several control strategies for HVAC system.  Since 2024, Dr. Wang has been in School of Infrastructure Engineering at Dalian University of Technology, as a doctoral student. 

1. Victor H. L. Rocha
2. Josiney A. Souza

Lyapunov Stability of Transformation Semigroups

Victor H. L. Rocha is a Professor at the São Paulo State University, Brazil. He completed his PhD studies at the State University of Maringá, Brazil. His research interests include geometry and topology, more specifically topological dynamics, dynamical systems, geometric control theory, and Lie theory. Josiney A. Souza is a Professor at the State University of Maringá, Brazil. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from the State University of Campinas, Brazil. Dr. Souza’s research interests lie in control system, topological dynamics, and Lie theory. He has published two books and more than fifty articles on attractors, Morse decomposition, chain transitivity, stability, controllability, recursiveness, dispersiveness, and uniformities.  

1. Eugene Lavretsky
2. Kevin A. Wise

Robust and Adaptive Control

Dr. Eugene Lavretsky – is a Boeing Principal Senior Technical Fellow within the Boeing Research & Technology in Huntington Beach, CA. During his professional career at Boeing, Dr. Lavretsky has developed flight control methods, system identification tools and flight simulation technologies for piloted aircraft and autonomous aerial platforms. His research interests include robust and adaptive control, system identification and flight dynamics. He has written over 100 technical articles, a textbook and taught graduate control courses at the California Long Beach State University, Claremont Graduate University, California Institute of Technology, University of Missouri Science and Technology, and at the University of Southern California. Dr. Lavretsky is the recipient of the AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award (2009), the IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award (2011), the AACC Control Engineering Practice Award (2012), and the IEEE Control Systems Society Award for Technical Excellence in Aerospace Control (2021). Dr. Lavretsky is a Fellow of IEEE (2016), a Fellow of AIAA (2018), and a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2024).   Dr. Kevin A. Wise is a VP, Distinguished Senior Technical Fellow, Flight Controls, in The Boeing Company, is President and CEO of Innovative Control Technologies, LLC, and is a Chief Advisor at Kelda Drilling Controls in Norway.  He received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1980, 82, and 87, respectively.  Since joining Boeing in 1982, he has developed vehicle management systems, flight control systems, and control system design tools and processes for advanced piloted and unpiloted aircraft and weapon systems.  Some programs include T-7A Redhawk, KC-46 Tanker boom, 777X, Dominator UAS, Phantom Eye Hydrogen Powered UAS, QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target, X-45 J-UCAS, X-36, SDB and JDAM, and HAVE SLICK. His research interests include intelligent autonomy and battle management, aircraft and missile dynamics and control, hypersonic GNC, robust adaptive control, optimal control, robustness theory, and intelligent drilling solutions.  He has authored more than 100 technical articles and seven book chapters; he has published a textbook titled Robust and Adaptive Control Theory, with Aerospace Examples; and he teaches control theory at Washington University in St. Louis and at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  Dr. Wise is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, is the recipient of the AIAA Intelligent Systems Award (2018), IEEE Technical Excellence in Aerospace Control Award (2016), IFAC/AACC Control Engineering Practice Award (2007), and the AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award (2004).  He is an IEEE Fellow, and Fellow of the AIAA.

1. Vladimir Anashin

Causality: The p-adic Theory

This book delves into the mathematical theory of causal functions over discrete time, offering a fresh perspective on causality beyond its philosophical roots.

Reliability Analysis and Maintenance Optimization of Complex Systems

These chapters are authored by esteemed professors and researchers in the field of reliability engineering, and they are organized as follows: System Reliability Modeling (8 chapters), Optimal Maintenance Models (4 chapters), System Performance and Availability Analysis (3 chapters), and Reliability Testing and Accelerated Life Tests (2 chapters).

1. Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein
2. Michel Coornaert

Cellular Automata and Groups

This unique book provides a self-contained exposition of the theory of cellular automata on groups and explores its deep connections with recent developments in geometric and combinatorial group theory, amenability, symbolic dynamics, the algebraic theory of group rings, and other branches of mathematics and theoretical computer science.