Ph.D. positions are available for Fall 2023 in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Arlington. The research areas are related to coordinated control, distributed optimization, reinforcement learning, and their applications in autonomous driving and smart grids. Self-motivated students with backgrounds in control systems, mathematics, power systems, and transportation systems are preferred. Please send your CV and transcripts to Dr. Yijing Xie (yijing.xie@uta.edu).
Bio: Dr. Yijing Xie is currently an Assitant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Arlington. Previously, she was a Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow at Purdue University. She received her B.S. degree in Automation from Wuhan University, China, in 2014 and her Ph.D. degree in Control Science and Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 2020. She was a visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia from 2017 to 2019. Her research focuses on control theory and applications, including multi-agent systems, event-triggered control, learning control, and their applications in cyber-physical systems and smart grids. She received the IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation Best Student Paper Award in 2017 and the Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellowship from Purdue Engineering in 2020. https://mentis.uta.edu/explore/profile/yijing-xie
