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Professor J. Lam received a first class BSc degree in Mechanical
Engineering from the University of
Manchester in 1983, and was awarded the Ashbury Scholarship, the A.H.
Gibson Prize, and the H. Wright Baker Prize for his academic performance.
He later obtained the MPhil and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge in 1985 and
1988, respectively. For his doctoral and post-doctoral research, he was
supported by the Croucher Foundation
Scholarship (1984) and Fellowship (1990). He is the recipient of an
Outstanding Researcher Award (2008) of the University of Hong Kong, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow
(2010) of the Royal Academy of Engineering of the United Kingdom, and is
a Cheung Kong Chair Professor of the Ministry of Education, China (2013). He is a Highly Cited Researcher in
Engineering (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) and Computer Science
(2015) selected by Thomson Reuters and Clarivate
Analytics. He has received the Second Class State Natural Science Award
twice (2015, 2019).
Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong in 1993, Professor Lam
held lectureships at now the City
University of Hong Kong and the University
of Melbourne. He was a Visiting Fellow of the Research School of
Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian
National University. Professor Lam has close academic association
with a number of universities in Mainland China. He has held Guest/Visiting/Honorary/Consulting
Professorship in Huazhong
University of Science and Technology, Shandong
University, Central South University,
Harbin Institute of Technology, East
China University of Science and Technology, Northeastern University, South China University of Technology, Shanghai Jiaotong
University, and University of
Science & Technology of China.
On the professional service side, Professor Lam is a Chartered
Mathematician, Chartered Scientist, Chartered Engineer, Fellow of Institute of Mathematics and Its
Applications, Fellow of Institution
of Engineering and Technology, Fellow of Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Fellow of Institution
of Mechanical Engineers, and
Fellow of The Hong Kong Institution of
Engineers. He also joined other learned societies as Fellow of
the Cambridge Philosophical Society and Fellow of the Cambridge
Commonwealth Society. Professor Lam is Editor-in-Chief of IET Control
Theory and Applications, Journal
of The Franklin Institute, and Proc. IMechE Part I: Journal of Systems and Control
Engineering. He also serves
as Subject Editor of Journal
of Sound and Vibration,
Editor of Asian
Journal of Control, Senior
Editor (Systems and Control) of Cogent Engineering, Section Editor (Control Engineering
& Robotics) of IET
Journal of Engineering, Consulting Editor of International
Journal of Systems Science, Associate Editor of Automatica, and as member of editorial board of Multidimensional
Systems and Signal Processing and Conference Editorial Board of the
IEEE Control Systems Society. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEE
Proceedings: Control Theory and Applications, Associated Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing. He is a reviewer of the Mathematical Reviews of the
American Mathematical Society. Professor Lam also serves as Panel Member
(Engineering) of the Research Grants Council, HKSAR.
Professor Lam has research interests in model reduction, robust
control and filtering, delay, singular systems, Markovian jump systems, multidimensional
systems, networked control systems, and biological networks.
His Erdös number is 3.
Professor Lam's Personal Homepage
Mathematics Resources:
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