Dr. Keqin Gu
Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor
Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
School of Engineering
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Edwardsville, IL 62026-1805
Room: EB2050
Tel: (618)650-2803
E-mail: kgu@siue.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 1988
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 1985
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 1982
Research Interests
- Robust Control, Robotics, and Timed Delayed Systems
- Control of Flexible Structures
- Nonlinear Dynamic Systems
Academic Experience
- Jan. 2024 – Present Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor
- Aug. 2012 – Dec. 2023 Distinguished Research Professor
- Aug 2016 – Aug 2019 Director, PhD Program and New Program Development, School of Engineering
- Jan 2016 – July 2016 Interim Associate Dean, School of Engineering
- Aug. 2013 - Dec. 2014 Graduate Program Director
- Aug. 2004 - Aug. 2013 & Aug. 2019 – Aug. 2023 Department Chair
- Jan. 2003 - May 2003 Acting Chair
- July 2002 - Aug. 2012 Professor
- July 1996 - June 2002 Associate Professor
- June 1998 - June 2002 Graduate Program Director
- Sept 1990 - June 1996 Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois
- Jan. 1989 - Aug. 1990 Research Associate, Center for Robotics and Advanced Automation, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan
- Sept. 1989 - Dec. 1988 Graduate Assistant, the George Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Awards
- Certificate of Outstanding Service, Automatica, 2017
- School of Engineering Excellence Award, 2014
- SIUE Distinguished Research Professor Award, 2012
Editorial Appointments
- Associate Editor, Systems and Control letters (2017-Present)
- Associate Editor, Automatica (2005-2016)
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2000-2002)
- Program Editor, The Third IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems, December 8-10, 2001, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Co-Editor, CNRS-NSF Workshop: Advances on Time Delay Systems, January 22-24, 2003, Paris, France
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on Time-Delay Systems, Asian Journal of Control, Volume 8, Number 1 and 2, 2006
- Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Franklin Institute (2007-2012)
Representative Service Activities
- ASME Committee on Engineering Accreditation (2022-Present)
- ABET Program Evaluator (2015-Present)
- Mentor for ABET Program Evaluator Candidates (2023-Present)
- Program Committee, American Control Conference, 2018
- Program Committee, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2013
- Society Review Chair for Society of Modeling and Simulation International, American Control Conference, 2018-2022
Representative Publications
- Phan-Van, H. and Gu, K. (2024). “Structured invariant subspace and decomposition of systems with time delays and uncertainties,” Accepted for publication in International Journal of Robust & Nonlinear Control.
- Gu, K. and Phan-Van, H. (2024). “External Direct Sum Invariant Subspace and Decomposition of Coupled Differential-Difference Equations,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, to appear in February 2024, http://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2023.3274208 .
- Gu, K., Ma, Q., Zhou, H., Mahzoon, S., Yang, X. (2022). “A geometric description of the set of stabilizing PID controllers,” Special Issue on PID Control, International Journal on Nonlinear and Robust Control, vol 32, no 18, pp 9475 – 9496.
- Gu, K., Karitonov, V. L. and Chen, J. (2003), Stability of Time-Delay Systems, Birkhauser, Boston.
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