2017年06月05日上午，IEEE Fellow、IEEE CSS Chair (控制系统协会主席)Edwin Chong教授应邀在将军路校区自动化学院1号楼403会议室做题为“When it is unnecessary to beoptimal and enough to be greedy”的学术报告，并于当日下午与学院部分师生开展了学术研讨会。会议由自动化学院院长姜斌教授主持，自动化学院部分师生参加了报告会。
上午，Prof. Chong在讲座中介绍了自己在优化问题方面的若干研究成果，主要包括：“弦-子模函数”问题解的界、与k-batch贪婪策略相关的界、改进的曲率的界、子模博弈中的纳什均衡的界。Chong教授所考虑的优化问题选取“弦-子模函数”为目标函数，并利用贪婪算法找到与最优解相关的贪婪解的下界。为了让同学们更好的理解优化问题，Chong教授以任务调度中的问题为例，为我们讲解了优化理论在该问题上的应用。最后，Chong教授耐心地解答了师生们的提问。
下午，学院部分师生与Prof. Chong开展了学术交流会，该会议以5位研究生代表汇报各自近期科研工作情况、座下师生提问的形式开展。5位学生代表的研究方向主要包括非标准型系统自适应控制，高铁牵引电机故障诊断、旋翼机容错控制、最优控制及近空间飞行器姿态控制，Prof. Chong就几位学生的研究提出了非常深刻的意见及建议，另到场师生受益匪浅。会议结束后，Prof. Chong与到会师生代表合影留念。
附报告人简介：
Edwin K. P. Chong received the B.E. degree with First Class Honors from the University ofAdelaide, South Australia, in 1987; and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 1989 and1991, respectively, both from Princeton University, where he held an IBM Fellowship.He joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at PurdueUniversity in 1991, where he was named a University Faculty Scholar in 1999.Since August 2001, he has been a Professor of Electrical and ComputerEngineering and Professor of Mathematics at Colorado State University.He coauthored the best-selling book, AnIntroduction to Optimization (4th Edition, Wiley-Interscience, 2013). Hereceived the NSF CAREER Award in 1995 and the ASEE Frederick Emmons TermanAward in 1998. He was a co-recipient of the 2004 Best Paper Award for a paperin the journal Computer Networks. In 2010, he received the IEEE Control SystemsSociety Distinguished Member Award.
Prof. Chong is a Fellow of IEEE. He was the foundingchairman of the IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on DiscreteEvent Systems, and served as an IEEE Control Systems Society DistinguishedLecturer. He was a Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Controluntil 2016, and has also served on the editorial boards of Computer Networks,Journal of Control Science and Engineering, and IEEE Expert Now. He was theGeneral Chair for the 2011 Joint 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Controland European Control Conference. He has served as a member of the IEEE ControlSystems Society Board of Governors and as Vice President for FinancialActivities until 2014. He serves as its President in 2017.