BEng (DMU), MSc (HEU), PhD (HIT)
Area of Specialisation
- Robust control
- Model predictive control
- Autonomous vehicles
- Unmanned aerial vehicles
- Cyber physical energy systems
Dr Zhijian Hu is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering (AAE) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He received the Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Dalian Maritime University (DMU), Dalian, China, in 2015, Master degree in Control Engineering from Harbin Engineering University (HEU), Harbin, China, in 2017, and PhD degree in Control Science and Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, China, in 2022. From 2022 to 2024, he was a Research Fellow with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From 2024 to 2026, he was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow with the LAAS-CNRS, France. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. He was listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists for 2025. His research focuses on robust control, model predictive control, resilient control, and the applications in unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous vehicles, and cyber physical energy systems.
Selected Publications
- Zhijian Hu and Renjie Ma, Adaptive Event-Triggered Tracking Control via Switching Functions, Automatica, vol. 185, pp. 112813, 2026. (citation: 14)
- Zhijian Hu, Renjie Ma, Su Zhang, Hao Wang, Xinxin Liu, and Dong Zhao, Resilient Memory-Event-Triggered Predictive Tracking Control for Unmanned Ground Vehicle, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 500-510, 2026. (citation: 0)
- Zhijian Hu, Rong Su, Veerapandiyan Veerasamy, Lingying Huang, and Renjie Ma, Resilient Frequency Regulation for Microgrids under Phasor Measurement Unit Faults and Communication Intermittency, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 1941-1949, 2025. (citation: 71)
- Zhijian Hu, Kun Zhang, Rong Su, and Ruiping Wang, Robust Cooperative Load Frequency Control for Enhancing Wind Energy Integration in Multi-area Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 22, pp. 1508-1518, 2025. (citation: 51)
- Zhijian Hu, Rong Su, Kai Zhang, Ruiping Wang, and Renjie Ma, Resilient Frequency Estimation for Renewable Power Generation Against Phasor Measurement Unit and Communication Link Failures, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 233-237, 2025. (citation: 12)
- Zhijian Hu, Qingyang Li, Pu Zhang, Ruiping Wang, and Kai Zhang, A Novel Handling Method to Intermittent Feedback in Load Frequency Regulation for Renewable Energy-Dominated Microgrids, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, vol. 73, pp. 1-8, 2024. (citation: 13)
- Zhijian Hu, Renjie Ma, Bohui Wang, Yulong Huang, and Rong Su, A General Resiliency Enhancement Framework for Load Frequency Control of Interconnected Power Systems Considering Internet of Things Faults, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 20, no. 9, pp. 10695-10705, 2024. (citation: 13)
- Zhijian Hu, Rong Su, Keck-Voon Ling, Yao Guo, and Renjie Ma, Resilient Event-Triggered MPC for Load Frequency Regulation With Wind Turbines Under False Data Injection Attacks, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 7073-7083, 2023. (citation: 77)
- Zhijian Hu, Rong Su, Kai Zhang, Zeyuan Xu, and Renjie Ma, Resilient Event-Triggered Model Predictive Control for Adaptive Cruise Control Under Sensor Attacks, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2023, 10(3): 807-809. (citation: 45)
- Zhijian Hu, Shichao Liu, Wensheng Luo, and Ligang Wu, Resilient Distributed Fuzzy Load Frequency Regulation for Power Systems Under Cross-Layer Random Denial-of-Service Attacks, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 2396-2406, 2022. (citation: 186)
