Dr Lei Chen

Senior Lecturer

School of Mechanical Engineering

Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

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Appointments

Date Position Institution name
2004 senior lecturer the university of adelaide
Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence Automation and Control Engineering Building Science and Techniques Dynamics, Vibration and Vibration Control Heat and Mass Transfer Operations Manufacturing Robotics and Mechatronics Power and Energy Systems Engineering Robotics and Automation

Date	Position	Institution name
2004	senior lecturer	the university of adelaide

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Journals

Year	Citation
2018	Ahamed Khan, R., Ghomashchi, R., xie, Z., chen, L., Munroe, P., & Xu, S. (2018). Powder processing and characterisation of a quinary Ni-Mn-Co-Sn-Cu Heusler alloy. Powder Technology, 324, 69-75. DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2018	Tang, D., Chen, L., Tian, Z., & Hu, E. (2018). Adaptive nonlinear optimal control for active suppression of airfoil flutter via a novel neural-network-based controller. Journal of Vibration and Control, 24(22), 5261-5272. DOI
2018	qin, J., hu, E., nathan, G., & chen, L. (2018). Mixed mode operation for the Solar Aided Power Generation. Applied Thermal Engineering, 139, 177-186. DOI Scopus5 WoS2
2018	Sadighi Dizaji, H., Hu, E., & Chen, L. (2018). A comprehensive review of the Maisotsenko-cycle based air conditioning systems. Energy, 156, 725-749. DOI Scopus5 WoS3
2018	Khan, R., Ghomashchi, R., Xie, Z., & Chen, L. (2018). Ferromagnetic shape memory Heusler materials: synthesis, microstructure characterization and magnetostructural properties. Materials, 11(6), 988-1-988-34. DOI
2018	Sadighi Dizaji, H., Hu, E., Chen, L., & Pourhedayat, S. (2018). Development and validation of an analytical model for perforated (multi-stage) regenerative M-cycle air cooler. Applied Energy, 228, 2176-2194. DOI Scopus3 WoS1
2017	Mirsepahi, A., Chen, L., & O Neill, B. (2017). An artificial intelligence solution for heat flux estimation using temperature history; a two-input/two-output problem. Chemical Engineering Communications, 204(3), 289-294. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2017	Mirsepahi, A., Mehdizadeh, A., Chen, L., O'Neill, B., & Mohammadzaheri, M. (2017). Comparison of inverse modelling and optimization-based methods in the heat flux estimation problem of an irradiative dryer/furnace. Journal of Computational Science, 19, 77-85. DOI Scopus1
2017	Qin, J., Hu, E., Nathan, G., & Chen, L. (2017). Concentrating or non-concentrating solar collectors for solar Aided Power Generation?. Energy Conversion and Management, 152, 281-290. DOI Scopus5 WoS5
2016	Wu, J. W., Chen, L., & Hu, E. J. (2016). Performance estimation of adsorption cooling cycle with sorption hysteresis. Applied Thermal Engineering, 105, 159-162. DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2016	Tang, D., Chen, L., Hu, E., & Tian, Z. F. (2016). A novel actuator controller: delivering a practical solution to realization of active-truss-based morphing wings. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 63(10), 6226-6237. DOI Scopus2 WoS1
2015	Wu, J., Madani, S., Biggs, M., Phillip, P., Lei, C., & Hu, E. (2015). Characterizations of activated carbon-methanol adsorption pair including the heat of adsorptions. Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, 60(6), 1727-1731. DOI Scopus12 WoS12
2015	Miri, N., Mohammadzaheri, M., & Chen, L. (2015). An enhanced physics-based model to estimate the displacement of piezoelectric actuators. Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 26(11), 1442-1451. DOI Scopus4 WoS2
2015	Huang, H., Chen, L., & Hu, E. (2015). A new model predictive control scheme for energy and cost savings in commercial buildings: an airport terminal building case study. Building and Environment, 89, 203-216. DOI Scopus37 WoS32
2015	Huang, H., Chen, L., & Hu, E. (2015). A neural network-based multi-zone modelling approach for predictive control system design in commercial buildings. Energy and Buildings, 97, 86-97. DOI Scopus26 WoS21
2015	Mohammadzaheri, M., Chen, L., Mirsepahi, A., Ghanbari, M., & Tafreshi, R. (2015). Neuro-predictive control of an infrared dryer with a feedforward-feedback approach. Asian Journal of Control, 17(6), 1972-1977. DOI Scopus2 WoS1
2015	Miri, N., Mohammadzaheri, M., & Chen, L. (2015). An evolutionary approach to physics-based modelling of piezoelectric actuators, supported by a critical review and experimental results. International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, 2(8), 335-347.
2014	Mirsepahi, A., Chen, L., & O'Neill, B. (2014). A comparative approach of inverse modelling applied to an irradiative batch dryer employing several artificial neural networks. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 53, 164-173. DOI Scopus8 WoS8
2013	Mirsepahi, A., Chen, L., & O'Neill, B. (2013). A comparative artificial intelligence approach to inverse heat transfer modeling of an irradiative dryer. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 41, 19-27. DOI Scopus12 WoS11
2012	Chen, L. (2012). Distributed hybrid vibration absorbers for shock and forced vibrations. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 166 - 169, 1709-1712. DOI
2012	Mirsepahi, A., Mohammadzaheri, M., Chen, L., & O'Neill, B. (2012). An artificial intelligence approach to inverse heat transfer modeling of an irradiative dryer. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 39(1), 40-45. DOI Scopus11 WoS12
2012	Mohammadzaheri, M., Chen, L., & Grainger, S. (2012). A critical review of the most popular types of neuro control. Asian Journal of Control, 14(1), 1-11. DOI Scopus21 WoS16
2012	Huang, H., Chen, L., Mohammadzaheri, M., & Hu, E. (2012). A new zone temperature predictive modeling for energy saving in buildings. Proceedings of Evolving Energy, the IEF International Energy Congress 2012, as published in Procedia Engineering, 49, 142-151. DOI Scopus15 WoS15
2012	Mirsepahi, A., Mohammadzaheri, M., Chen, L., & O'Neill, B. (2012). Erratum to "An artificial intelligence approach to inverse heat transfer modeling of an irradiative dryer". [Int. Comm. Heat Mass Trans. 39 (2012) 40-45].. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 39(6), 885. DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2011	Chen, L., Askarian, S., Mohammadzaheri, M., & Samadi, F. (2011). Simulation and experimental study of inverse heat conduction problem. Advanced Materials Research, 233-235, 2820-2823. DOI Scopus5 WoS5
2011	Mohammadzaheri, M., & Chen, L. (2011). Intelligent control of a nonlinear tank reactor. Asian Journal of Control, 13(3), 439-444. DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2010	Mohammadzaheri, M., & Chen, L. (2010). Intelligent predictive control of a model helicopter's yaw angle. Asian Journal of Control, 12(6), 667-679. DOI Scopus21 WoS15
2010	Mohammadzaheri, M., & Chen, L. (2010). Double-command fuzzy control of a nonlinear CSTR. Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, 27(1), 19-31. DOI Scopus15 WoS13
2010	Mohammadzaheri, M., & Chen, L. (2010). Double-command feedforward-feedback control of a nonlinear plant. Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, 27(5), 1372-1376. DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2009	Mohammadzaheri, M., Chen, L., Ghaffari, A., & Willison, J. (2009). A combination of linear and nonlinear activation functions in neural networks for modeling a de-superheater. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 17(2), 398-407. DOI Scopus16 WoS11
2009	Mohammadzaheri, M., & Chen, L. (2009). Design and stability discussion of an hybrid intelligent controller for an unordinary system. Asian Journal of Control, 11(5), 476-488. DOI Scopus4 WoS3
2009	Chen, L., He, F., & Sammut, K. (2009). Vibration suppression of a principal parametric resonance. Journal of Vibration and Control, 15(3), 439-463. DOI Scopus12 WoS11
2008	Mohammadzaheri, M., & Chen, L. (2008). Hybrid Neuro-Predictive-Fuzzy Algorithm for a Model Helicopter’s Yaw Angle Control. Engineering Letters, 16(1), 18-26.
2007	Chen, L., Hansen, C., He, F., & Sammut, K. (2007). Active nonlinear vibration absorber design for flexible structures. International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration, 12(2), 51-59. Scopus9
2005	Chen, L., & Hansen, C. (2005). Active vibration control of a magnetorheological sandwich beam. Annual Conference of the Australian Acoustical Society 2005, Acoustics 2005: Acoustics in a Changing Environment, 74-79. Scopus2

Conference Papers

Year	Citation
2017	Tang, D., Chen, L., Tian, Z., & Hu, E. (2017). Nonlinear optimal control for active suppression of airfoil flutter via a novel neural-network-based controller. In Proceedings of the 2017 25th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED) (pp. 253-258). Valletta, Malta: IEEE. DOI
2016	Huang, H., Chen, L., & Hu, E. (2016). Reducing energy consumption for buildings under system uncertainty through robust MPC with adaptive bound estimator. In Proceedings of the 4th International High Performance Buildings Conference at Purdue (pp. 1-10). West Lafayette, Indiana, USA: Ray W. Herrick Laboratories.
2015	Sergiienko, N., & Chen, L. (2015). Adaptive head stabilisation system for a snake-like robot. In Proceedings of Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2014 Vol. 02-04-December-2014 (pp. 1-7). Melbourne, Australia: Australian Robotics and Automation Association Inc.. Scopus1
2015	McLean, L., Chen, L., & Robertson, W. (2015). A robotic joint sensor. In Proceedings of the 2015 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (pp. 1-8). Canberra, ACT: ARAA.
2015	Tang, D., Chen, L., & Tian, Z. F. (2015). Neural-network based online policy iteration for continuous-time infinite-horizon optimal control of nonlinear systems. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE China Summit & International Conference on Signal and Information processing (pp. 792-796). Chengdu, China: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). DOI Scopus2 WoS1
2015	Huang, H., Chen, L., & Hu, E. (2015). A hybrid model predictive control scheme for energy and cost savings in commercial buildings: simulation and experiment. In Proceedings of 2015 American Control Conference Vol. 2015-July (pp. 256-261). Chicago, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). DOI Scopus11 WoS6
2014	Huang, H., Chen, L., & Hu, E. (2014). Model predictive control for energy-efficient buildings: An airport terminal building study. In IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, ICCA (pp. 1025-1030). Taichung, TAIWAN: IEEE. DOI Scopus7 WoS1
2014	Tang, D., Chen, L., & Hu, E. (2014). A novel unknown-input estimator for disturbance estimation and compensation. In Proceedings of Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation Vol. 02-04-December-2014 (pp. 116-1-116-8). Melbourne, Vic.: ARAA. Scopus3
2013	Miri, N., Mohammadzaheri, M., Chen, L., Grainger, S., & Bazghaleh, M. (2013). Physics-based modelling of a piezoelectric actuator using genetic algorithm. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ISIEA 2013 (pp. 16-20). Online: IEEE. DOI Scopus3 WoS2
2013	Huang, H., Chen, L., Mohammadzaheri, M., Hu, E., & Chen, M. (2013). Multi-zone temperature prediction in a commercial building using artificial neural network model. In Proceedings of the 2013 10th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, ICCA 2013 (pp. 1896-1901). USA: IEEE. DOI Scopus15 WoS8
2013	Miri, N., Mohammadzaheri, M., & Chen, L. (2013). A comparative study of different physics-based approaches to modelling of piezoelectric actuators. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics: Mechatronics for Human Wellbeing, AIM 2013 (pp. 1211-1216). USA: IEEE. DOI Scopus5 WoS3
2013	Miri, N., Mohammadzaheri, M., & Chen, L. (2013). Optical sensing by polystyrene microspheres. In 2013 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics: Mechatronics for Human Wellbeing, AIM 2013 (pp. 1681-1685). USA: IEEE. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2010	Mohammadzaheri, M., Chen, L., Mirsepahi, A., Ghanbari, M., & Prime, Z. (2010). Hybrid intelligent control of an infrared dryer. In Proceedings of CHEMECA 2010 (pp. 1-10). Australia: Engineers Australia.
2010	Mohammadzaheri, M., & Chen, L. (2010). A design approach for feedback-feedforward control systems. In 2010 AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE (pp. 4917-4918). 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA: IEEE. Scopus1
2010	Aryan, P., Mohammadzaheri, M., Chen, L., Ghanbari, M., & Mirsepahi, A. (2010). GA-IMC based PID control design for an infrared dryer. In Proceedings of Chemeca 2010 (pp. 1-8). Australia: Engineers Australia.
2010	Ghanbari, M., Mirsepahi, A., Mohammadzaheri, M., Abhary, K., & Chen, L. (2010). Neural network based solution for modelling of an infrared furnace. In Proceedings of Chemeca 2010 (pp. 1-10). Australia: Engineers Australia.
2009	Wang, X., Lu, T., & Chen, L. (2009). Synchronization and time resolution improvement for 802.11 WLAN OWPT Measurement. In Proceedings of IMECS 2009 (pp. 1-6). Hong Kong: IAENG. DOI WoS1
2009	Chen, L. (2009). Using Magnetorheological (MR) Fluid as Distributed Actuators for Smart Structures. In Proceedings of ICIEA 2009 (pp. 1203-1208). Singapore: IEEE. DOI Scopus3
2009	Mohammadzaheri, M., Chen, L., Behnia-Willison, F., & Askarian, S. (2009). Double-command feedforward-feedback control of a nonlinear plant. In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (pp. 1937-1942). USA: IEEE. DOI
2009	Mohammadzaheri, M., Chen, L., Behnia-Willison, F., & Aryan, P. (2009). A design approach for feedback-feedforward control systems. In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (pp. 2266-2271). USA: IEEE. DOI Scopus7 WoS2
2009	Mohammadzaheri, M., & Chen, L. (2009). Intelligent control of a nonlinear tank reactor based on lyapunov direct method. In Proceedings of IEEE-ICIT'09 (pp. 1-6). USA: IEEE. DOI Scopus1
2009	Chen, L. (2009). Using Magnetorheological(MR) Fluid as Distributed Actuators for Smart Structures. In ICIEA: 2009 4TH IEEE CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS AND APPLICATIONS, VOLS 1-6 (pp. 1194-1199). Xian, PEOPLES R CHINA: IEEE.
2008	Mohammadzaheri, M., & Chen, L. (2008). Double-command fuzzy control of a nonlinear CSTR. In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (pp. 659-664). USA: IEEE. DOI Scopus3 WoS1
2008	Mohammadzaheri, M., & Chen, L. (2008). Control inertia and fuzzy brakes. In Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Mechatronics and Its Applications (pp. 1-6). USA: IEEE. DOI Scopus1
2008	Chen, L., Mohammadzaheri, M., He, F., & Sammut, K. (2008). Distributed active shock absorbers for flexible structures. In Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Mechatronics and Its Applications (pp. 1-6). USA: IEEE. DOI
2008	Mohammadzaheri, M., & Chen, L. (2008). Intelligent modelling of MIMO nonlinear dynamic process plants for predictive control purposes. In Proceedings of the 17th World Congress The International Federation of Automatic control Vol. 17 (pp. 12401-12406). Korea: IFAC. DOI Scopus3
2008	Mohammadzaheri, M., & Chen, L. (2008). Design and stability discussion of a hybrid intelligent controller. In Proceedings of the 17th World Congress The International Federation of Automatic control Vol. 17 (pp. 1472-1477). Korea: IFAC. DOI Scopus1
2007	Mohammadzaheri, M., & Chen, L. (2007). Design of an intelligent controller for a model helicopter using neuro-predictive method with fuzzy compensation. In S. Ao (Ed.), Proceedings of WCE 2007 (pp. 19-24). UK: IA ENG.
2007	Chen, L., & Mohammadzaheri, M. (2007). Smart sensors and actuators used for both free and forced vibration control. In R. Dhaouadi, & K. Assaleh (Eds.), Proceedings of ISMA07 (pp. 1-6). USA: American University of Sharjah.
2007	Chen, L., He, F., & Sammut, K. (2007). Active vibration clamping absorber design. In Nicole Kessissoglou (Ed.), Proceedings of ICSV14 Vol. 3 (pp. 1-8). CDROM: AAS.
2007	Mohammadzaheri, M., & Chen, L. (2007). Hybrid intelligent control of a lab model helicopter pitch dynamics. In A. Karsiti (Ed.), Proceedings of ICIAS2007 (pp. 1-5). CDROM: IEEE. DOI Scopus2
2007	Mohammadzaheri, M., & Chen, L. (2007). Anti-overshoot control of model helicopter's yaw angle with combination of fuzzy controller and fuzzy brake. In A. Karsiti (Ed.), Proceedings of ICIAS2007 (pp. 1-5). CDROM: IEEE. DOI Scopus2
2007	Mohammadzaheri, M., Chen, L., Ghaffari, A., & Mehrabi, D. (2007). Design of a Training Based Fuzzy Controller for Power Plant De-superheaters. In P. Mareels (Ed.), Proceedings of IDC 2007 (pp. 272-277). USA: IEEE. DOI Scopus1
2006	Chen, L., & Tian, J. (2006). Distributed magnetorheological(MR) fluid damper for active structural vibration control. In M. Kidner, & C. Howard (Eds.), Proceedings of ACTIVE 2006 (pp. CDROM1-CDROM12). Australia: Australian Acoustical Society.
2006	Chen, L. (2006). Vibration and control of a parametrically excited mechanical system. In K. Luk (Ed.), Proceedings of IEEE TENCON2006 (pp. 1-4). Hong Kong: IEEE. DOI
2005	Chen, L., & Hansen, C. (2005). Active vibration control of magnetorheological sandwich beam. In T. McMinn (Ed.), Proceedings of the annual conference of the Australian Acoustical Society: 'Acoustics in a changing environment' (pp. 69-74). CD ROM: Australian Acoustical Society (Western Australian division).
2004	Lee, Y., Halim, D., Chen, L., & Cazzolato, B. (2004). Design and implementation of spatial feedback control on a flexible plate. In DMee, R. Hooker, & I. Hillock (Eds.), Proceedings of Acoustics 2004 (pp. CD-ROM 1-CD-ROM 6). CD-ROM: Australian Acoustical Society.
2004	Chen, L., & Hansen, C. (2004). A hybrid control system for distributed active vibration and shock absorbers. In D. Mee, R. Hooker, & I. Hillock (Eds.), Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Australasian Acoustical Society 2004 (pp. CD-ROM 381-CD-ROM 386). CD-ROM: Australian Acoustical Society.
2003	Chen, L., & Hansen, C. (2003). Lumped and distributed parameter vibration absorbers for distributed structures. In C. Don (Ed.), Acoustics on the Move - Proceedings of the 8th Western Pacific Acoustics Conference (pp. CDROM 1-CDROM 4). CDROM: Australian Acoustical Society.
2003	Chen, L., & Hansen, C. (2003). Nonlinear control of a parametrically excited system subject to actuator saturation. In C. T. Abdallah (Ed.), Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Vol. 4 (pp. CDROM 3846-CDROM 3851). CDROM: IEEE. DOI Scopus2
2002	Chen, L., He, F., & Sammut, K. (2002). Nonlinear modal positive position feedback for vibration control in distributed parameter systems. In Anthony Zander (Ed.), Acoustics 2002 - Innovation in Acoustics and Vibration (pp. 425-432). NSW, Australia: Australian Acoustical Society.
2002	Cao, T., He, F., Sammut, K., & Chen, L. (2002). Variable structure observer design in matrix second-order formulation for linear & nonlinear vibrating systems using velocity measurements. In Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications : September 18-20, 2002, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K. Vol. 1 (pp. 82-87). Glasgow, Scotland, U.K: IEEE. DOI Scopus3
2002	Chen, L., He, F., Sammut, K., & Cao, T. (2002). Nonlinear active vibration absorber design for flexible structures. In Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications : September 18-20, 2002, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K., Vol 1 Vol. 1 (pp. 321-326). Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.: IEEE. DOI Scopus1
2000	Chen, L., Cao, T., He, F., & Sammut, K. (2000). Bifurcation control of a flexible beam under principal parametric excitation. In Proceedings of the American Control Conference Vol. 6 (pp. 3793-3794). CHICAGO, IL: IEEE. DOI Scopus2
2000	Van Cao, T., Chen, L., He, F., & Sammut, K. (2000). Adaptive integral sliding mode control for active vibration absorber design. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Vol. 3 (pp. 2436-2437). SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: IEEE. DOI Scopus6
2000	Cao, T., Chen, L., He, F., & Sammut, K. (2000). Active vibration absorber design via sliding mode control. In Proceedings of the American Control Conference Vol. 3 (pp. 1637-1638). CHICAGO, IL: IEEE. Scopus10 WoS6

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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2018	Co-Supervisor	Research on an innovative underground cooling system	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mr Xuyang Huang
2018	Principal Supervisor	Study of Intelligent Pipeline Leaking Detection Technologies – Transient Acceleration Gradient Method for Non-Interceptive and Instantaneous Leak Detection	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Xiaoxuan Du
2018	Principal Supervisor	Intelligent Vibration Monitoring and Control for Mining Process	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Yiping Zheng
2018	Principal Supervisor	Intelligent Vibration Analysis and Control	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Abdullah Balhaddad
2017	Co-Supervisor	Investigation of the Maisotsenko-Cycle Based Air Conditioning Systems	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Hamed SadighiDizaji
2016	Principal Supervisor	Robot Joint Sensor - Obtaining Robot Joint State via Sensor Fusion	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Laurence McLean
2016	Co-Supervisor	Investigations for the Development of a New Point Cloud Capture Range Sensor Suitable for Real Vineyards Pruning Scenario	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mr Di Gao
2016	Co-Supervisor	Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for an Automatic Pruning System for Tomato Plants	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Erwin Mazwardi
2014	Principal Supervisor	Shape Memory Hybrid Composites for Morphing Applications	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Dr Riaz Ahamed Ahamed Khan
2013	Principal Supervisor	Morphing Wing Control	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Difan Tang

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2017 - 2017	Co-Supervisor	Study on Configuration and Operation Strategies of Solar Aided Power Generation Plant	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Jiyun Qin
2016 - 2018	Co-Supervisor	Incorporation of the Influences of Kinematics Parameters and Joints Tilting for the Calibration of Serial Robotic Manipulators	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Dhavalkumar Arunbhai Patel
2012 - 2014	Principal Supervisor	An Evolutionary Approach to Physics-based Modelling of Piezoelectric Actuators	Master of Engineering Science	Master	Full Time	Miss Narges Miri
2011 - 2016	Principal Supervisor	Intelligent Control System Design for Energy Conservation in Commercial Buildings	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Hao Huang
2010 - 2017	Principal Supervisor	An Intelligent Approach to Inverse Heat Transfer Analysis of Irradiative Enclosures	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Ali Mirsepahi
2009 - 2012	Principal Supervisor	Robust Actuator Controller for Active-Truss-Based Morphing Wing	Master of Engineering Science	Master	Full Time	Mr Difan Tang
2009 - 2017	Co-Supervisor	Investigation of Stockpile-Voxel Profile and Material Reclaiming Optimization Using Bucket Wheel Reclaimer	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mr Maung Myo
2008 - 2010	Co-Supervisor	Odour Source Localisation Using Multiple Plume-Tracing Mobile Robots	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Zhenzhang Liu
2007 - 2010	Co-Supervisor	Indoor Environments Robot Localization by Employing 802.11 Wireless Network One Way Propagation Time Measurements	Master of Engineering Science	Master	Full Time	Mr Xinrui Wang
2007 - 2011	Principal Supervisor	New Types of Knowledge about System Dynamics for Intelligent Control System Design	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Morteza Mohammadzaheri
2007 - 2014	Co-Supervisor	Outdoor Navigation: Time-critical Motion Planning for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Mohd Sani Mohamad Hashim
2004 - 2007	Co-Supervisor	Kinetostatic Modelling of Compliant Micro-motion Stages with Circular Flexure Hinges	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Yuen Yong
2002 - 2005	Principal Supervisor	Active Vibration Control of a piezoelectric laminate plate using Spatial Control Approach	Master of Engineering Science	Master	Full Time	Mr Yong Lee

Position: Senior Lecturer
Phone: 83135469
Email: lei.chen@adelaide.edu.au
Fax: 8313 4367
Campus: North Terrace
Building: Engineering South, floor 3
Room: 3 08
Org Unit: School of Mechanical Engineering

Dr Lei Chen

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