In the past five years, the lab has published over 1200 academic papers, with 850 of them indexed by SCI, more than 940 indexed by EI, 270 published in IEEE and IFAC journals, and 50 published in three top chemical engineering journals (AIChE Journal, Chemical Engineering Science, and Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research). Among them, 60 articles are ESI highly cited papers (rank in the top 1% by citations).

 Representative Publications：

• Qingchao Jiang, Xiaoming Fu, Shifu Yan, Runlai Li, Wenli Du, Zhixing Cao*, Feng Qian, Ramon Grima. Neural network aided approximation and parameter inference of non-Markovian models of gene expression. Nature Communications, 2021, 12(1), 2618.

• Zhixing Cao, Ramon Grima. Analytical distributions for detailed models of stochastic gene expression in eukaryotic cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020, 117 (9): 4682-4692.

• Chongzhen Zhang, Jianrui Wang, Gary G. Yen, Chaoqiang Zhao, Qiyu Sun, Yang Tang*, Feng Qian, Jürgen Kurths. When autonomous systems meet accuracy and transferability through AI: A survey. Patterns (Cell Press), 2020, 1(4), 100050.

• Yang Tang*, Xiaotai Wu, Peng Shi, Feng Qian. Input-to-state stability for nonlinear systems with stochastic impulses. Automatica, 2020, 113, 108766.

• Zhichen Li, Huaicheng Yan*, Hao Zhang, Yan Peng, Ju H. Park, Yong He. Stability analysis of linear systems with time-varying delay via intermediate polynomial-based functions. Automatica, 2020, 113: 1-6.

• Wen Yang*, Dengke Li, Heng Zhang, Yang Tang, Weixing Zheng. An encoding mechanism for secrecy on remote state estimation. Automatica, 2020, 120, 109116.

• Jun Song*, Yugang Niu, H. K. Lam, Yuanyuan Zou. Asynchronous sliding mode control of singularly perturbed semi-Markovian jump systems: application to an operational amplifier circuit. Automatica, 2020, 118: 109026.

• Mengqi Xue, Yang Tang*, Wei Ren, Feng Qian*. Practical output synchronization for asynchronously switched multi-agent systems with adaption to fast-switching perturbations. Automatica, 2020, 116, 108917.

• Yuanyuan Zou*, Xu Su, Shaojun Li, Yugang Niu. Event-triggered distributed predictive control for asynchronous coordination of multi-agent systems. Automatica, 2019, 99(1): 92-98.

• Yongxiao Tian, Huaicheng Yan*, Hao Zhang, Xisheng Zhan, Yan Peng. Dynamic output-feedback control of linear semi- Markov jump systems with incomplete semi-Markov kernel. Automatica, 2019, 117, 108997.

• Jun Song, Yugang Niu*, Yuanyuan Zou. Asynchronous sliding mode control of Markovian jump systems with time-varying delays and partly accessible mode observation probabilities. Automatica. 2018, 93(7):33-41.

• Fangfei Li*, Yang Tang. Set stabilization for switched Boolean control networks. Automatica, 2017, 78(1):223-230.

• Xiaotai Wu, Yang Tang*, Wenbing Zhang. Input-to-state stability of impulsive stochastic delayed systems under linear assumptions. Automatica, 2016, 66(4): 195-204.

• Wangli He*, Feng Qian*, Qing-Long Han, Guanrong Chen. Almost sure stability of nonlinear systems under random and impulsive sequential attacks. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2020, 65(9): 3879-3886.

• Jing Xu*, Emilia Fridman, Leonid Fridman, Yugang Niu. Static sliding mode control of systems with arbitrary relative degree by using artificial delays. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2020.

• Yongxiao Tian, Huaicheng Yan*, Hao Zhang, Xisheng Zhan, Yan Peng. Resilient static output feedback control of linear semi-markov jump systems with incomplete semi-markov kernel. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2020.

• Chaoyang Chen*, Feng Liu, Lianghong Wu, Huaicheng Yan*, Weihua Gui, H. Eugene Stanley. Tracking performance limitations of networked control systems with repeated zeros and poles. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2020.

• Xiaotai Wu, Yang Tang*, Jinde Cao. Input-to-State Stability of Time-Varying Switched Systems with Time-Delays. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2019, 64(6): 2537-2544.

• Jun Song, Zidong Wang*, Yugang Niu. On H∞ sliding mode control under stochastic communication protocol. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2019, 64(5), 2174-2181.

• Jiapeng Xu, Daniel W. C. Ho, Fangfei Li, Wen Yang, and Yang Tang*. Event-triggered risk-sensitive state estimation for hidden Markov models. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2019, 64(10): 4276-4283.

• Chao Yang, Jianying Zheng, Xiaoqiang Ren, Wen Yang, Hongbo Shi*, Ling Shi. Multi-Sensor Kalman Filtering with Intermittent Measurements. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2018, 63(3):797-804.

• Jun Song, Yugang Niu*, James Lam, Zhan Shu. A Hybrid design approach for output feedback exponential stabilization of Markovian jump systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2018, 63(5):1404-1417.

• Xiaotai Wu, Yang Tang*, Jinde Cao, Xuerong Mao. Stability analysis for continuous-time switched systems with stochastic switching signals. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2018, 63(9):3083-3090.

• Zhe Wang*, Chenjie Cao, Yujin Zhu. Entropy and confidence based undersampling boosting random forests for imbalanced problems. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2020.

• Jing Jin*, Ruocheng Xiao, Ian Daly, Yangyang Miao, Xingyu Wang, Andrzej Cichocki. Internal feature selection method of CSP based on L1-Norm and Dempster-Shafer theory. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2020.

• Yuanming Zhu, Zhongsheng Hou, Feng Qian*, Wenli Du. Dual RBFNNs-based model-free adaptive control with Aspen HYSYS simulation. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 2016, 28(3): 759-765.

• Yang Tao, Hongbo Shi*, Bing Song, Shuai Tan. A novel dynamic weight principal component analysis method and hierarchical monitoring strategy for process fault detection and diagnosis. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2020, 67(9): 7994-8004.

• Xin Peng, Yang Tang, Wenli Du*, Feng Qian*. Multimode process monitoring and fault detection: a sparse modeling and dictionary learning method. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2017, 64(6):4866-4875.

• Qingchao Jiang, Steven X. Ding*, Yang Wang, Xuefeng Yan*. Data-driven distributed local fault detection for large-scale processes based on the GA-regularized canonical correlation analysis. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2017, 64(10):8148-8157.

• Zhina Zhang, Yugang Niu*, H. K. Lam. Sliding mode control of T-S fuzzy systems under weighted try-once-discard protocol. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2020

• Wei Du, Leung, Sunney Yung Sun, Yang Tang, Vasilakos, Athanasios V. Differential evolution with event-triggered impulsive control. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2017, 47(1):244-257.

• Xiangyun Qing, Jing Jin, Yugang Niu, Shuangliang Zhao*. Time–space coupled learning method for model reduction of distributed parameter systems with encoder-decoder and RNN. AIChE Journal, 2020, 66(8): e16251.

• Liang Zhao, Chao Ning, Fengqi You*. Operational optimization of industrial steam systems under uncertainty using data‐driven adaptive robust optimization. AIChE Journal, 2019, 65(7), e16500.

• Yu Zhang, Reyniers P A, Schietekat C M, Wenli Du, Feng Qian*. Computational fluid dynamics-based steam cracking furnace optimization using feedstock flow distribution. AIChE Journal, 2017, 63(7):3199-3213.

• Jianeng Ni, Shaojun Li*. An adaptive soft sensor method on D-vine copula quantile regression on complex chemical processes. Chemical Engineering Science. 2020.

• Yitong Tian, Yihui Jin, Shaojun Li*. Modeling and optimization of inter-plant indirect heat exchanger network by difference evolutionary algorithm. Chemical Engineering Science. 2020, 227:115924.

• Yitong Tian, Shihao Wang, Kai Liu, Shaojun Li*. Multi-plant direct heat integration considering safe redundancy through a bilevel simultaneous algorithm. Chemical Engineering Science. 2020, 222: 115662.

• Zhichao Li, Li Tian, Qingchao Jiang, Xuefeng Yan*. Fault diagnosis method based on deep learning and multi-model fusion for complex industrial process. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2020, 59(40): 18061-18069.

• Xin Peng, Zhi Li*, Weimin Zhong*, Feng Qian, Ying Tian. Concurrent quality-relevant canonical correlation analysis for nonlinear continuous process decomposition and monitoring. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2020, 59 (18): 8757-8768.

• Hui Cheng, Liang Cheng, Zhi Li*, Zhencheng Ye, Minglei Yang. Method of hybrid adaptive sampling for the Kriging Metamodel and application in the hydropurification process of industrial terephthalic acid.  Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2020, 59(43): 19345-19360.

• Yang Zhou, Shaojun Li*, Ning Xiong. Improved vine copula-based dependence description for multivariate process monitoring based on ensemble learning. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 2019, 58: 3782-3796.

• Yang Tao, Hongbo Shi*, Bing Song, Shuai Tan. Distributed supervised fault detection and diagnosis for a non-Gaussian process. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2019, 58: 6592-6603.

• Jian Long, Tianyue Li, Minglei Yang, Guihua Hu, Weimin Zhong*. Hybrid strategy integrating variable selection and a neural network for fluid catalytic cracking modeling. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2019, 58(1): 247-258.

• Mengyu Rong, Hongbo Shi*, Shuai Tan. Large-scale supervised process monitoring based on distributed modified principal component regression. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2019, 58: 18223-18240.

• Qingchao Jiang, Xuefeng Yan*. Locally weighted canonical correlation analysis for nonlinear process monitoring. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2018, 57(41): 13783-13792.

• Weimin Zhong*, Chao Jiang, Xin Pen, Zhi Li, Feng Qian. Online quality prediction of industrial terephthalic acid hydropurification process using modified regularized slow-feature analysis. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2018, 57(29):9604-9614.

• Nan Zhou, Shaojun Li*. Nonlinear and non-Gaussian process monitoring based on simplified R-vine copula. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2018, 57(22):7566-7582.

• Benfeng Yuan, Yu Zhang, Xin Peng, Wenli Du*, Guihua Hu, Feng Qian. Simulation of the evaporation tube banks in the convection section of a steam cracking furnace using an evaporation model. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2017, 56(38):10813-10825.

• Wenli Du*, Chunyu Bao, Xu Chen, Liang Tian, Da Jiang. Dynamic optimization of tandem acetylene hydrogenation process. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2017, 55(46): 11983-11995.

• Min Wei, Minglei Yang*, Feng Qian*, Wenli Du, Weimin Zhong. Integrated dual-production mode modeling and multi-objective optimization of an industrial continuous catalytic naphtha reforming process. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2016, 55: 5714-5725.

• Zhaomin Lv, Xuefeng Yan*. Hierarchical support vector data description used for batch process monitoring. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2016, 55(34): 9205-9214.