Biography
Fei Chen received his Ph.D. in control theory and control engineering from Nankai University, China, in 2009. He currently holds the position of Full Professor and serves as the Associate Dean of the College of Artificial Intelligence at Nankai University. Before joining Nankai University, he worked as a postdoc researcher at Utah State University, USA (2009–2010), an Associate Professor at Xiamen University, China, and a Full Professor at Northeastern University, China. Additionally, he held visiting positions at the University of California, Riverside (2017–2018) and City University of Hong Kong, China (2008, 2013, 2016, 2024). Dr. Chen is the first author of the book “Distributed Average Tracking in Multi-agent Systems” (Springer, 2020). He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conferences. He was named in the World's Top 2% Scientist Rankings (2023, 2024). He serves as a Senior Editor for IEEE ACCESS. His research interests include distributed control, distributed optimization, and distributed learning.
Current positions
- Professor, College of AI, Nankai University (June 2023–present)
- Associate Dean, College of AI, Nankai University (July 2025–present)
Previous positions
- Professor, Northeastern University (May 2018–May 2023)
- Associate Professor, Xiamen University (Nov 2010–Apr 2018)
- Visiting Scholar, City University of Hong Kong (Jun 2024–Aug 2024)
- Visiting Scholar, University of California, Riverside (Jul 2017–Jul 2018)
- Visiting Scholar, City University of Hong Kong (Apr 2016–Jul 2016)
- Visiting Scholar, City University of Hong Kong (2013)
- Visiting Scholar, City University of Hong Kong (2008)
Education
- Postdoc, Utah State University (Aug 2009–Aug 2010)
- Ph.D., Nankai University, China (Sep 2004–Jun 2009)
Research interests
Distributed cooperative control, distributed optimization, distributed learning.
Research grants (selected)
- PI, Distributed Optimization of Bi-layer Multi-Agent Systems under Multi-Source Uncertainties, NSFC General Program (62573240)
- PI, Distributed Resilient Control and Optimization Decision-Making for High-Flexibility, High-Dynamics, and High-Uncertainty Manufacturing Scenarios, NSFC Major Research Program (92367105)
- PI, Distributed Cooperative Optimization of Multi-Agent Systems with Hyperparameters, NSFC General Program (61973061)
- PI, Distributed Average Tracking of Time-Varying Signals in Complex Environments, NSFC General Program (61473240)
- PI, Research on Containment Control Algorithms for Multiple Moving Targets and Applications to Multi-Vehicle Networks, NSFC Young Scientists Program (61104018)
- PI, Safety-Driven Distributed Cooperative Control and Optimization of Human–Machine Collaborative Systems, National Key R&D Program of China (2025YFE0150600)
Service
- Senior Editor, IEEE Access (2025–present)
- Associate Editor, IEEE Access (2020–2025)
- Associate Editor, IFAC World Congress (2022–present)
- Associate Editor, Chinese Control Conference (2017–present)
- Associate Editor, Asian Control Conference (2013)
- Associate Editor, International Conference on Information Science and Technology (2017)
- Moderator, IEEE TechRxiv (2020–present)
- Senior Member, IEEE (2015–present)
- Member, IFAC Technical Committee on Large-Scale Complex Systems (2023–present)