Dr Jun Yang

FIET, SMIEEE, PhD, BEng

  • Reader in Autonomous and Electric Vehicles

Background:

Jun obtained his BEng in Automation from School of Information Science and Engineering at Northeastern University, China in 2006 and subsequently his PhD in Control Engineering from School of Automation at Southeast University, China in 2011. Prior to joint Loughborough University, he worked as a Lecturer, Associate Professor and Full Professor at Southeast University from 2011, from 2014 and from 2018. Jun joined the Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering at Loughborough University as a Senior Lecturer in Autonomous and Electric Vehicles since 2020.

Qualifications:

  • Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 2020
  • Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2018
  • Vice Chair of Nanjing Chapter of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society since 2018
  • PhD in Control Engineering, Southeast University, China, 2011
  • BEng in Automation, Northeastern University, China, 2006

Key awards:

  • Outstanding Reviewer of the IET Control Theory and Applications, 2018.
  • Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Prize) of Jiangsu Province, 2018.
  • Premium Award for Best Paper in the IET Control Theory and Applications, 2017.
  • ICI Prize for Best Paper in the Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, concerning work on the industrial application of control, 2016.
  • Outstanding Reviewer of the Automatica, 2016.
  • One paper was selected as one of the top hundred influential international academic papers in China, 2014.
  • Natural Science Award (Second Prize) of Ministry of Education of China, 2014.
  • One paper was selected as the Most Cited Automatica Articles (2013 to 2018, 25 Articles in total)