Sun, Jing

Michael G. Parsons Collegiate Professor of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Biography

Jing Sun received her Ph. D degree from the University of Southern California in 1989, and her B. S. and M. S. degrees from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1982 and 1984 respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. From 1989-1993, she was on the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Wayne State University. She joined Ford Research Laboratory in 1993 where she worked in the Powertrain Control Systems Department on engine emission control and fuel economy optimization projects. After spending almost 10 years in industry, she came back to academia and joined the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Department and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan in September 2003, where she holds the title of Michael G. Parsons Collegiate Professor of Engineering now. Her research interests include control theory and optimization, as well as their applications to marine and automotive energy systems. She holds 45 US patents, has co-authored a textbook, Robust Adaptive Control (Prentice Hall, 1996), and published over 350 journal and conference papers. She has served as associate editor for several control journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Process. She is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, IEEE, International Federation of Automatic Control, and Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. She is one of the three recipients of the 2003 IEEE Control System Technology Award.