2017年06月05日上午，IEEE Fellow、IEEE CSS Chair (控制系統協會主席)Edwin Chong教授應邀在将軍路校區伟德 官网1号樓403會議室做題為“When it is unnecessary to be optimal and enough to be greedy”的學術報告，并于當日下午與學院部分師生開展了學術研讨會。會議由伟德 官网院長姜斌教授主持，伟德 官网部分師生參加了報告會。
上午，Prof. Chong在講座中介紹了自己在優化問題方面的若幹研究成果，主要包括：“弦-子模函數”問題解的界、與k-batch貪婪策略相關的界、改進的曲率的界、子模博弈中的納什均衡的界。Chong教授所考慮的優化問題選取“弦-子模函數”為目标函數，并利用貪婪算法找到與最優解相關的貪婪解的下界。為了讓同學們更好的理解優化問題，Chong教授以任務調度中的問題為例，為我們講解了優化理論在該問題上的應用。最後，Chong教授耐心地解答了師生們的提問。
下午，學院部分師生與Prof. Chong開展了學術交流會，該會議以5位研究生代表彙報各自近期科研工作情況、座下師生提問的形式開展。5位學生代表的研究方向主要包括非标準型系統自适應控制，高鐵牽引電機故障診斷、旋翼機容錯控制、最優控制及近空間飛行器姿态控制，Prof. Chong就幾位學生的研究提出了非常深刻的意見及建議，另到場師生受益匪淺。會議結束後，Prof. Chong與到會師生代表合影留念。
附報告人簡介：
Edwin K. P. Chong received the B.E. degree with First Class Honors from the University of Adelaide, South Australia, in 1987; and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 1989 and 1991, respectively, both from Princeton University, where he held an IBM Fellowship. He joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University in 1991, where he was named a University Faculty Scholar in 1999. Since August 2001, he has been a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Mathematics at Colorado State University. He coauthored the best-selling book, An Introduction to Optimization (4th Edition, Wiley-Interscience, 2013). He received the NSF CAREER Award in 1995 and the ASEE Frederick Emmons Terman Award in 1998. He was a co-recipient of the 2004 Best Paper Award for a paper in the journal Computer Networks. In 2010, he received the IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Member Award.
Prof. Chong is a Fellow of IEEE. He was the founding chairman of the IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Discrete Event Systems, and served as an IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer. He was a Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control until 2016, and has also served on the editorial boards of Computer Networks, Journal of Control Science and Engineering, and IEEE Expert Now. He was the General Chair for the 2011 Joint 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference. He has served as a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors and as Vice President for Financial Activities until 2014. He serves as its President in 2017.
