Automation

  • Name:William Dai
  • Title:Associate Professor
  • Office:SEIEE Building 2-528
  • Office Phone:
  • Email:w.dai@sjtu.edu.cn
  • Website:http://iwin.sjtu.edu.cn

Research Field

- Interoperable, flexible and energy efficient software architecture for industrial cyber-physical systems(CPS)
- Knowledge-Driven Service Orchestration Engine for Smart Manufacturing
- Self-management industrial software agents of industrial CPS
- Local Service cloud for industrial CPS

Education

- Aug 2008 – Jul 2012
Doctoral of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The University of Auckland, New Zealand

- Mar 2003 – Nov 2006
Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Computer Systems Engineering
The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Work experience

- Feb 2017 - Current
Associate Professor
Department of Automation
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

- Oct 2014 – Jan 2017
Assistant Professor
Department of Automation
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

-Jun 2013 – Nov 2014
Postdoc Research and Teaching Fellow
Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering
Lulea University of Technology, Sweden

-Mar 2013 – May 2013
Professional Teaching Fellow
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Auckland, New Zealand

-Feb 2013 – Apr 2013
Lecturer (Part-Time)
Department of ElectroTechnology
Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand

-Jan 2007 – Jul 2013
Senior Software Engineer
Software Department
Glidepath Group, New Zealand

Research

• Jul 2017 – Jun 2020
China Inaugurates National R&D Plan - 3D Printing
• Jul 2016 – Jun 2019
China Inaugurates National R&D Plan - Internet of Energy
• Jul 2015 – Jun 2017
Shanghai Pu Jiang Scholar, China, Project Leader
• Jan 2016 - Dec 2018
National Science Foundation China – Youth Fund, Project Leader
• May 2013 – Oct 2014
Arrowhead Project (http://www.arrowhead.eu) – Work Package 9 / Task 9.1 Leader

Awards and Honors

- IECON 2013, IECON 2014 – Best Paper in Session
- Part 4 Research Project - Industrial Prize Winner on Distributed Systems Catalogue sponsored by Vector

Teaching

- AU310 Motion Control Systems (English Version)
- CS331 Computer Control Technologies (English Version)

Publications

Book Chapter
1. W. Dai, V. Vyatkin and J. Christensen,“Applying IEC 6199 Design Paradigms”, Distributed Control Applications: Guidelines, Design Patterns, and Application Examples with the IEC 61499, CRC Press, 2015.

Peer Reviewed Journal Papers
1. W. Dai, V. Vyatkin, “Redesign Distributed PLC Control Systems Using IEC 61499 Function Blocks”, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (Impact Factor: 2.162), Vol. 9, Issue 2, Page 390 – 401, 2012.
2. W. Dai, V. Dubinin, V. Vyatkin, “Automatically Generated Layered Ontological Models for Configurable Semantic Analysis of IEC 61499 Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, DOI:10.1109/TII.2012.2235450, 2013.
3. W. Dai, V. Dubinin, V. Vyatkin, “Migration from PLC to IEC 61499 using Semantic Web Technologies”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, Cybernetics: Systems (Impact Factor: 2.183), Vol. 44, Issue 3, Page 277 – 291, 2014.
4. W. Dai, V. Vyatkin, J. Christensen, V. Dubinin, “Bridging Service-Oriented Architecture and IEC 61499 for Flexibility and Dynamic Reconfigurability”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 11, Issue 3, page 771 – 781, 2015.
5. W. Dai, V. Dubinin, J. Christensen, V. Vyatkin, X. Guan “Towards Self-Manageable and Adaptive Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems with Knowledge-Driven Autonomic Service Management”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, in press, 2016
6. X. Guan, B. Yang, C. Chen, W. Dai, Y. Wang, “A comprehensive overview of cyber-physical systems: from perspective of feedback system”, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, Vol. 3, No. 4, page 1 – 14, 2016

Others

- 2015 - current Working Group Member – IEEE P2660.1 Industrial Software Agent
- 2016 - current Working Group Member – IEC TC65B/WG 15(IEC 61499)