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Biao Huang, Ph.D.

Professor, P.Eng

616 Chemical and Materials Engineering Building
Tel:  (780) 492-9016 
Fax: (780) 492-2881 
biao.huang@ualberta.ca

                  

 

Teaching:

·        CHE576 Intermediate Process Control

·        CHE358 Process Data Analysis

·        CHE662 Process Identification

Research:

Process Control, State Estimation, Soft Sensors, System Identification, Control Performance Assessment, Fuel Cell, Biomedical Modeling

 

New Book 1:

Huang, B. and R. Kadali, Dynamic Modeling, Predictive Control and Performance Monitoring: A Data-driven Subspace Approach, Springer Verlag, ISBN: 978-1-84800-232-6.

 

 

New Book 2:

Mohieddine Jeali and Biao Huang (Eds), Detection and diagnosis of stiction in control loops: State of the art and advanced methods, Springer Verlag, book to appear in October 2009.

 

 

 

Other publications:

·        Publication list

 

Software Download:

Control performance assessment toolbox, MPC performance assessment toolbox, Closed-loop Identification, Fuel cell models

 

Research Opportunity (updated Oct. 25, 2009):

·        Research Opportunities (Research Associate, PDF, PhD, MSc, over 10 positions opening for 2009-2012) 

·        PhD/PDF projects in progress & completed in 2007

 

Current Professional Activities

 

Awards

  • Fellow of Chemical Institute of Canada since 2010
  • 2009-2010 Killam Annual Professorship award
  • Chang Jiang International Scholar 2008
  • Recipient of NSERC DAS (2007-08 competition)
  • CSChE Syncrude Canada Innovation Award (2005)
  • Journal of Process Control Best Paper Award, in the category "methodology / theory" for the period 2002 to 2005: Thornhill, N. F., B. Huang, and H. Zhang, Detection of multiple oscillations in control loops, Journal of Process Control, 13(1), 91-100, 2003.
  • Best referee award, Journal of Process Control, 2006.
  • One of the best poster paper awards for the paper “Assessment of economic performance of model predictive control through variance/constraint tuning”,  2006 IFAC ADCHEM, Brazil, April 2-5.
  • McCalla Professorship (2005-2006)
  • Petro-Canada Young Innovator (2003) 
  • Humboldt Research Fellowship (2003 - 2004)
  • Honorable mention as one of five finalist papers at the IFAC World Congress for the Best IFAC Congress Applications Paper Prize (2002).
  • Canada Foundation for Innovation Researcher (1998)
  • Andrew Steward Memorial Graduate Prize, University of Alberta (1996) 
  • Dissertation Fellowship, University of Alberta (1996) 
  • Du Pont/Paprican Scholarship (1994 - 1995) 
  • University of Alberta Ph.D Scholarship, University of Alberta (1992 - 1994)  

 

 

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