PhD (Boston University, USA)

ME (Tsinghua University, China)

BE (Tsinghua University, China)

Jianfeng Mao is currently the Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of the School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He is also the Co-director of the Master of Data Science Program, and an associate editor of the journal Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications. He received the B.E. degree and M.E. degree in Automation Science from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and obtained his Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering from Boston University. He is the former Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has been engaged in the field of systems engineering for a long time, focusing on the research of models and optimization theory methods of discrete event systems, applied to transportation systems, logistics networks, smart grids and manufacturing systems, etc., and his research results have been published in important journals in related fields, such IEEE Transactions on  Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on  Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, European Journal of Operational Research, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Automatica, and etc. His research projects have been supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, Ministry of Education, Singapore and Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee. He has won the Best Conference Paper Award at high-level international conferences for many times, including Integrated Communications 2020, Navigation and Surveillance Conference, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering 2017, Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference 2012. He is the recipient of several awards such as the Guangdong Nanyue Outstanding Teacher Award 2021, the Shenzhen Outstanding Teacher Award 2020, and the The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Presidential Model Teaching Award 2019.

Selected Refereed Journal Articles:

1. Chi Li, Jianfeng Mao, Lingyi Li, Lianmin Zhang, Jianyu Zhu, Zibin Pan, "Flight Delay Propagation Modeling: Data, Methods, and Future Opportunities ", Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2024, to appear. 

2. Chi Li, Xixian Qi, Yuzhe Yang, Zhuo Zeng, Lianmin Zhang, Jianfeng Mao, "FAST-CA: Fusion-based Adaptive Spatial-Temporal Learning with Coupled Attention for Airport Network Delay Propagation Prediction", Information Fusion, 2024, to appear.

3. Yubing Gao, Guangyu Zhu, Ya Duan, Jianfeng Mao, "Semantic Encoding Algorithm for Classification and Retrieval of Aviation Safety Reports", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science Engineering, 2024, in press.

4. Yuan Wang, Weilin Cai, Yilei Tu, Jianfeng Mao, "Reinforcement-Learning-Informed Prescriptive Analytics for Air Traffic Flow Management", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science Engineering, 2023, in press. 

5. Xiongwen Qian, Jianfeng Mao, Yuan Wang, Meng Qiu, "A Column Generation-Based Framework for Air Traffic Flow Management Incorporating User-Driven Prioritization Process", Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics, 11(1), 1642-1663, 2023.

6. Lechen Wang, Jianfeng Mao, Lishuai Li, Xuechun Li, Yilei Tu, "Prediction of Estimated Time of Arrival for Multi-airport Systems via ‘Bubble’ Mechanism", Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 149, 104065, 2023.

7. Zhou Fang, Jianfeng Mao, "Energy-Efficient Elevating Transfer Vehicle Routing for Automated Multi-level Material Handling Systems", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 17(3), 1107-1123, 2020.

8. Zhijian Ye, Fanhe Kong, Baocheng Zhang, Wei Gao, Jianfeng Mao, "A Method Framework for Automatic Airspace Reconfiguration-Monte Carlo Method for Eliminating Irregular Sector Shapes Generated by Region Growth Method", Sensors, 2019, 19(18), 3934. 

9. Changpeng Yang, Jianfeng Mao, Xiongwen Qian, Peng Wei, "Designing Robust Air Transportation Networks via Minimizing Total Effective Resistance", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 20(6), 2353-2366, 2019.

10. Fanghong Guo, Changyun Wen, Jianfeng Mao, Jiawei Chen, Yong-Duan Song, "Hierarchical Decentralized Optimization Architecture for Economic Dispatch: A New Approach for Large-scale Power System", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 14(2), 523-534, 2018.

11. Jianfeng Mao, Christos G. Cassandras, "Solving a Class of Simulation-based Optimization Problems Using 'Optimality in Probability'", Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, 28(1), 35-61, 2018.

12. Xiongwen Qian, Jianfeng Mao, Chun-Hsien Chen, Songlin Chen, Changpeng Yang, "Coordinated Multi-aircraft 4D Trajectories Planning Considering Buffer Safety Distance and Fuel Consumption Optimization via Pure-strategy Game", Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 81, 18-35, 2017.

13. Fanghong Guo, Changyun Wen, Jianfeng Mao, Guoqi Li, Yong-Duan Song, "A Distributed Hierarchical Algorithm for Multi-Cluster Constrained Optimization", Automatica, 77, 230-238, 2017.

14. Wuhua Hu, Jianfeng Mao, Keji Wei, "Energy-efficient Rail Guided Vehicle Routing for Two-Sided Loading/Unloading Automated Freight Handling System", European Journal of Operational Research, 258(3), 943-957, 2017. 

15. Lei Miao, Jianfeng Mao, Christos G. Cassandras, "Optimal Energy-Efficient Downlink Transmission Scheduling for Real-Time Wireless Networks", IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 4(4), 692-706, 2017.

16. Changpeng Yang, Jianfeng Mao, Peng Wei, "Air Traffic Network Optimization via Laplacian Energy Maximization", Aerospace Science and Technology, 49, 26-33, 2016.

17. Fanghong Guo, Changyun Wen, Jianfeng Mao, Yong-Duan Song, "Distributed Economic Dispatch for Smart Grids with Random Wind Power", IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 7(3), 1572-1583, 2016.

18. Qi Wu, Jianfeng Mao, C.F Wei, Shan Fu, Rob Law, L. Ding, B.T. Yu, B. Jia, C.H. Yang, "Hybrid BF-PSO and fuzzy support vector machine for diagnosis of fatigue status using EMG signal features", Neurocomputing, 173, 483-500, 2016.

19. Fanghong Guo, Changyun Wen, Jianfeng Mao, Jiawei Chen, Yong-Duan Song, "Distributed Cooperative Secondary Control for Voltage Unbalance Compensation in an Islanded Microgrid", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 11(5), 1078 - 1088, 2015.

20. Fanghong Guo, Changyun Wen, Jianfeng Mao, Yong-Duan Song, "Distributed Secondary Voltage and Frequency Restoration Control of Droop-Controlled Inverter-based Microgrids", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 62(7), 4355-4364, 2015.

21. Jianfeng Mao, Christos G. Cassandras, "Optimal Control of Multi-Layer Discrete Event Systems with Real-time Constraints", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 44(10), 1425-1434, 2014.

22. Jianfeng Mao, Christos G. Cassandras, "On-line Optimal Control of a Class of Discrete Event Systems with Real-Time Constraints", Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, 20(2): 187-213, 2010.

23. Jianfeng Mao, Christos G. Cassandras, "Optimal Admission Control of Discrete Event Systems with Real-Time Constraints", Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, 20(1): 37-62, 2010.

24. Jianfeng Mao, Christos G. Cassandras, "Optimal Control of Multi-stage Discrete Event Systems with Real-time Constraints", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 54(1):108-123, 2009.

25. Qianchuan Zhao, Jianfeng Mao, Ye Tao, "Time Separations of Cyclic Event Rule Systems with min–max Timing Constraints", Theoretical Computer Science, 407(1-3): 496-510, 2008. 

26. Jianfeng Mao, Christos G. Cassandras, "Optimal Control of Two-stage Discrete Event Systems with Real-time Constraints", Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, 17(4): 505-529, 2007.

27. Jianfeng Mao, Christos G. Cassandras and Qianchuan Zhao, "Optimal Dynamic Voltage Scaling in Energy-Limited Nonpreemptive Systems with Real-Time Constraints", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 6(6) : 678-688, 2007.
 

Selected Refereed Conference Proceedings:

1. Fangchen Yu, Yina Xie, Lei Wu, Yafei Wen, Guozhi Wang, Shuai Ren, Xiaoxin Chen, Jianfeng Mao, Wenye Li. "DocReal: Robust Document Dewarping of Real-Life Images via Attention-Enhanced Control Point Prediction", in Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV'2024), 2024.

2. Fangchen Yu, Runze Zhao, Zhan Shi, Yiwen Lu, Jicong Fan, Yicheng Zeng, Jianfeng Mao, Wenye Li. "Boosting Spectral Clustering on Incomplete Data via Kernel Correction and Affinity Learning", in Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'2023), 2023.

3. Fangchen Yu, Zhan Shi,Yuqi Ma, Jianfeng Mao, Wenye Li. "From Incompleteness to Unity: A Framework for Multi-view Clustering with Missing Values", in Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'2023), 2023.

4. Fangchen Yu, Rui Bao, Jianfeng Mao, Wenye Li, "Highly-Efficient Robinson-Foulds Distance Estimation with Matrix Correction", in Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2023), 2023.

5. Fangchen Yu, Yicheng Zeng, Jianfeng Mao, Wenye Li, "Online Estimation of Similarity Matrices with Incomplete Data", in Proceedings of the 39th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2023), 2023.

6. Lechen Wang, Xuechun Li, Jianfeng Mao, "Integrating ARIMA and Bidirectional LSTM to Predict ETA in Multi-airport Systems", in Proceedings of the 20th The Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, 2020. (Outstanding Paper Award)

7. Kailin Chen, Shaoyu Wang, Jianfeng Mao, "Travel Time Prediction for Multi-Airport Systems via Multiclass Queuing Networks", in Proceedings of the 20th The Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, 2020.

8. Zhou Fang, Jianfeng Mao, "Energy-Efficient Elevating Transfer Vehicle Routing for Automated Multi-level Material Handling Systems", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2017. (Best Conference Paper Award)

9. Lingling Sheng, Jianfeng Mao, Khim Teck Yeo, Leong Ian, "Improving Care Transition through Effective Discharge Planning", in Proceedings of the 2012 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, 2012. (Best Conference Paper Award)