Intelligent Industrial Alarm Systems: Advanced Analysis and Design Methods

About Jiandong WangTongwen ChenWenkai Hu

Jiandong Wang is presently a professor with the College of Electrical Engineering and Automation at the Shandong University of Science and Technology Qingdao Shandong Province China. He received the B.E. degree in automatic control from Beijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing China in 1997 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta Canada in 2003 and 2007 respectively. From 1997 to 2001 he was a control engineer with the Beijing Tsinghua Energy Simulation Company Beijing China. From February 2006 to August 2006 he was a visiting scholar at the Department of System Design Engineering at the Keio University Japan. From December 2006 to October 2016 he was an assistant/associate/full professor with the College of Engineering Peking University Beijing China. His research interests include process monitoring system identification optimal scheduling and their applications to industrial problems in the field of Electrical and Chemical Engineering.  He is a Senior Member of IEEE and TaiShan Scholar in Shandong Province. Wenkai Hu is currently a Professor at the School of Automation at China University of Geosciences Wuhan China. He received the B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees in Power and Mechanical Engineering from Wuhan University Wuhan Hubei China in 2010 and 2012 respectively and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta in 2016. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow from October 2016 to September 2018 and a research associate from November 2018 to February 2019 at the University of Alberta. His research interests include advanced alarm monitoring process control and data mining for complex industrial processes. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. Tongwen Chen is presently a Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research chair in Intelligent Monitoring and Control in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta Edmonton Canada. He received the B.Eng. degree in Automation and Instrumentation from Tsinghua University (Beijing) in 1984 and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1988 and 1991 respectively. His research interests include computer and network-based control systems process safety and alarm systems and their applications to the process and power industries. He is a Fellow of IEEE International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) the Royal Society of Canada as well as the Canadian Academy of Engineering.