Jinglai Shen

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Math/Psyc Building 417
University of Maryland Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Phone: (410) 455-2402
Fax: (410) 455-1066
Email: shenj at umbc.edu

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Education

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Math Sciences), Troy, NY
  (Advisor: Dr. Jong-Shi Pang)
• 2002, Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  (Advisor: Dr. Harris N. McClamroch)
• 1997, M.S.E. in Control, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
• 1994, B.S.E. in Control, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Research and Publications

• Research Interests

  • Hybrid and switching systems (e.g. complementarity systems) and their applications to engineering and robotics
  • Constrained optimization and control with applications to statistics, engineering and biology
  • Dynamics, control and simulation of multibody mechanical and robotic systems
  • Nonlinear control theory and applications

• Funded Projects

  • NSF ECCS-0900960, PI: Switching Dynamics and Control of Complemetnarity Systems
  
  
  • NSF CMMI-1030804, PI: Collaborative Research: A Constrained Optimal Control Approach to Shape Restricted Statistical Estimation and Its Applications
  
  
  • NSF DMS-1042916, PI: ATD: Collaborative Research: Estimation of Nonlinear Components and Disturbances with Applications to Threat Detection

• Editorial Duty

  • Associate Editor for SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization

• Publications

  • Selected Recent Publications
    
    
    1. Stability of Discrete-time Switched Homogeneous Systems on Cones and Conewise Homogeneous Inclusions (J. Shen and Jianghai Hu). SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 50(4), pp. 2216-2253, 2012.
    
    
    2. Positive Invariance of Constrained Affine Dynamics and Its Applications to Hybrid Systems and Safety Verification (J. Shen). IEEE Tran. on Automatic Control, Vol.57(1), pp. 3-18, 2012.
    
    
    3. Estimation of Monotone Functions via P-Splines: A Constrained Dynamical Optimization Approach (J. Shen and Xiao Wang). SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 49(2), pp. 646-671, 2011.
    
    
    4. Generating Functions of Switched Linear Systems: Analysis, Computation, and Stability Applications (Jianghai Hu, J. Shen, and Wei Zhang), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 56, No. 5, pp. 1059-1074, 2011.
    
    
    5. Robust Non-Zenoness of Piecewise Analytic Systems with Applications to Complementarity Systems (J. Shen). Proc. of 2010 American Control Conference, pp. 148-153, Baltimore, MD, July, 2010.
    
    
    6. Observability Analysis of Conewise Linear Systems via Directional Derivative and Positive Invariance Techniques (J. Shen). Automatica, Vol. 46(5), pp. 843-851, 2010.
    
    
  • Full Publication List

• Presentations

  • Conferences: IEEE CDC, ACC, SIAM Conf. on Contr. & Applic., AMS Sectional Meeting, NSF CMMI Grantee Conf., INFORMS Annual Meeting, Inter. Symp. Math. Program., ASME DSCC, Inter. Conf. on Complementarity Problems, Inter. Conf. on Continuous Optim., Midwest Motion Planning Meeting
  
  
  • Seminars: UMBC Applied Math Colloquium and Seminar, UIUC Workshop, Texas Tech, Univ. of Michigan Symposium in honor of Prof. McClamroch, RPI Applied Math Seminar, and more

• Professional Activities

  • Proposal Review: NSF panels, DOE external review, NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) external review
  
  
  • Paper Review: SICON, SIOPT, IEEE Tran. Auto. Contr., Math. Program. (Series A and B), Automatica, Optimization Methods & Software, IEEE Tran. Contr. Syst. Tech., IEEE Tran. Circu. & Syst. Part I, Sys. & Contr. Letter, Int. J. Robust & Nonlin. Contr., Int. J. of Contr., Optim. Contr. Applic. & Methods, Nonl. Analy. Series A, Dyna. of Contin., Discrete, and Impuls. Syst., Physica D, IEEE TRA, AIAA JGCD, ASME JDSMC, J. of Vibr. & Contr., CDC, ACC, CCA, MSC, IROS

• Collaborators

• Optimization and Control Seminar at UMBC

Professional Affiliation

• IEEE Senior Member
• SIAM Member

Teaching and Mentoring

• Teaching Interests

  Continuous Optimization, Systems and Control Theory, Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations, Applied Analysis (real analysis, convex/nonsmooth analysis), Matrix Analysis and Linear Algebra, Estimation

• Student Advising

  • Teresa Lebair, Ph.D. student (present)
  • Subhash Paruchuru, Master Thesis:"Uniform approximation property of implicit methods for a stiff family of differential equations", defended in December, 2011 (co-chair).
  • Bruno Kamden, Master Thesis:"An optimal solution to a resource allocation problem", defended in July, 2008.
  • Christine Sweigart, undergraduate summer research, Project:"Modeling and dynamics of gene regulation networks", 2010 (published in UMBC Review, Vol. 12, pp. 74-95, 2011).
  • Stuart Reynard, undergraduate summer research, Project:"Switching properties and simulation of contact mechanical systems", 2012.

• Mentoring

  • Faculty advisor of UMBC SIAM Student Chapter: present
  • Faculty advisor of Pi Mu Epsilon at UMBC (Honorary National Mathematics Society): 2009-2011
  • Co-organizer of the 3rd SIAM Mid-Atlantic Regional Applied Math Student Conf. at Shippensburg University, PA, 2012

• Past Courses

  • Courses taught before

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Last updated, July 2012