About Me

Neng Wan Boating

Short Bio
Hello visitors, I am currently a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering with the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering and Coordinated Science Laboratory at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Before this, I received my bachelor’s degree and my first master’s degree, both in Aerospace Engineering, from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) and my second master’s degree, in Applied and Computational Mathematics, from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD).

Research Interests
My research interests include:
· Control Theory
· Information Thoery
· Stochastic Optimal Control & Reinforcement Learning
· Variational Inference & Machine Learning
· Spacecraft & Mobile Robot Systems (Dynamics, Guidance, Navigation & Control)
· Numerical Methods of Partial Differential Equations
· Computer Vision & Grahpics

Academic Services
I serviced as the reviewer for several international journals and conferences, including:
· Abstract and Applied Analysis
· ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD)
· Acta Astronautica
· Aerospace Science and Technology
· American Control Conference (ACC)
· Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON)
· ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics
· Automatica
· IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)
· IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
· IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS)
· IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (TAES)
· IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC)
· IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (TCNS)
· IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE)
· IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Control
· IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
· IET Control Theory & Applications
· International Conference on Intelligent Computing
· International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
· Journal of Franklin Institute
· Mathematical Problems in Engineering

Professional Academies
I am currently a student member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , a student member of American Mathematical Society (AMS), and a student member of Mathematical Association of America (MAA).

Social Services and Societies
I have served as a volunteer and a member of the Red Cross Society of China since 2004.