Dr Xinggang Yan received his BSc degree from Shaanxi Normal University, in 1985, MSc degree from Qufu Normal University in 1991, and PhD degree in Control Engineering from Northeastern University, P. R. China in 1997. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer in the University of Kent, United Kindom.
He worked as a Research Fellow/Research Associate in the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, the University of Hong Kong, China and Northwestern Polytechnical University, China.
He was awarded as outstanding Chief-Editor of the Journal of Electronics & Information Systems by Bilingual Publishing Co in 2022. He received the Best Application Paper Award of ASian Control Conference (ASCC) in Fukuoka, Japan in 2019.
He serves as the member of the Editorial Board of several engineering journals including IET Control Theory & Applications, Journal of the Franklin Institute, Complexity, Energies and Mathematics Problems in Engineering etc. and a member of TPC for a number of international conferences.
His research interests include sliding mode control, decentralised control, fault detection and isolation, and time delay system with applications. He has published three books, six invited book chapters and over 200 referred papers in these areas.