Academic Qualification

Ph.D. in in Systems Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, 1988.

M. S. in Systems Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, 1985.

B. S. in Electrical Engineering, Anhui University of Science andTechnology, Huainan, China, 1982.

Teaching Area

Algorithm theory

Operations research and optimization

Automation

Research Area

Smart manufacturing and intelligent robotics

Intelligent control and systems intelligence

Intelligent transportation systems

Professional Services

Associate Editor: Information Sciences, 2017-

Associate Editor: IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2015-2018.

Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics, Part C, 2007-2012.

Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2009-2012.

Editor in Chief: Industrial Engineering Journal, 2009-2014.

Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics: Systems, 2013-2016.

Working Experience

Jan. 2021 ~ present, Chair Professor, Macao Institute of Systems Engineering and Department of Engineering Science, Faculty of Innovation Engineering, MUST

Jul. 2013 ~ Dec. 2020, Professor, Macao Institute of Systems Engineering, MUST

Sep. 1998 ~ Jun. 2013, Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology

Jun. 2010 ~ Oct. 2011, Visiting Professor, Laboratoire Informatique, Biologie Integrative et Systemes Complexes (IBISC), Universite d’Evry Val d’Essonne, France

Jan. 2007 ~ Mar. 2009, Visiting Professor, University of Technology of Troyes, France

May 2004 ~ Aug. 2004, Visiting professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Aug. 1999 ~ Dec. 1999, Visiting professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University

May 1995 ~ Aug. 1998, Associate Professor, Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Shantou University, Shantou, China

May 1988 ~ Apr. 1995, Assistant Professor/Associate Professor, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, P. R. China

Oct. 1991 ~ Sep. 1992, Visiting Scholar, School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Academic Publications (selected)

2024

1.    C. R. Pan, Y. M. Lai, Y. Qiao, N. Q. Wu, and X. Luo, Cycle time analysis for cluster tools with parallel process chambers, processing time variation, and chamber cleaning operations, Expert Systems With Applications, vol. 255, Part A, Article 124471, Dec. 2024.

2.    S. W. Zhang, N. Q. Wu, Y. Qiao, and Z. W. Li, Efficient optimal cyclic scheduling of high throughput screening system for enzyme-linked immunoassay, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 54, no. 9, 5791-5803, Sep. 2024.

3.    H. Yu, K. Z. Gao, N. Q. Wu, and P. N. Suganthan, Ensemble meta-heuristics and Q-learning for staff dissatisfaction constrained surgery scheduling and rescheduling, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol 34, Article 108668, Aug. 2024.

4.    S. W. Zhang, T. Li, N. Q. Wu, Y. Qiao, and W. W. Guo, Efficient approach to cyclic scheduling of high throughput screening systems for bioengineering, Information Sciences, vol. 669, Article 120561, May 2024.

5.    M. T. Liu, Y. Qiao, and N. Q. Wu, Efficient multi-AGV real-time collaborative operation in large-scale intelligent warehouses, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, early access, DOI: 10.1109/TIV.2024.3370763.

2023

6.        Z. F. Zheng, L. Y. Teng, W. Zhang, N. Q. Wu, and S. H. Teng, Knowledge transfer learning via dual density sampling for resource-limited domain adaptation, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 10, no. 12, 2269-2291, Dec. 2023.

7.       Y. X. Wei, H. J. Ning, Y. S. An, N. Q. Wu, and X. M. Zhao, Design of safety Petri net controllers for deadlock prevention at a class of road intersections, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol 24, no.12, 14453-14466, Dec. 2023.

8.        Q. H. Zhu, G. H. Wang, N. Q. Wu, Y. Qiao, Y. Hou, M. C. Zhou, and S. D. Zhao, Scheduling single-arm multi-cluster tools for two-type wafers with lower-bound cycle time, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 53, no. 11, 6658-6671, Nov. 2023.

9.        S. H. Teng, Z. F. Zheng, N. Q. Wu, L. Y. Teng, and W. Zhang, Adaptive graph embedding with consistency and specificity for domain adaptation, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 10, no. 11, 2094 – 2107, Nov. 2023.

10.    Y. S. An, Y. X. Gao, N. Q. Wu, J. W. Zhu, H. Z. Li, and J. H. Yang, Optimal scheduling of electric vehicle charging operations considering real-time traffic condition and travel distance, Expert Systems With Applications, vol. 213, Article 118941, Mar. 2023.

2022

11.    N. Q. Wu, Y. Qiao, Z. W. Li, A. Al-Ahmari, A. El-Tamimi, and H. Kaid, A novel control-theory-based approach to scheduling of high throughput screening system for enzymatic assay, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 52, no. 12, 7667-7678, Dec. 2022.

12.    Y. Qiao, N. Q. Wu, Y. F. He, Z. W. Li, and T. Chen, Adaptive genetic algorithm for two-stage hybrid flow-shop scheduling with sequence-independent setup time and no-interruption requirement, Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 208, Article 118068, Dec. 2022.

13.     S. F. Chen, N. Q. Wu, H. Fu, Y. F. Wang, and Y. Qiao, Urban Road Network Partitioning Based on Bi-modal Traffic Flows with Multi-objective Optimization, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 23, no. 11, 20664-20680, Nov. 2022.

14.    S. F. Chen, H. Fu, Y. Qiao, and N. Q. Wu, Route choice behavior modeling for emergency evacuation and efficiency analysis based on type-II fuzzy theory, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 23, no. 7, 6934-6949, Jul. 2022.

15.    Z. Y. Yang, N. Q. Wu, Y. Liang, H. Zheng, and Y. Q. Ren, SMSPL: Robust multimodal approach to integrative analysis of multi-omics data, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 52, no. 4, 2082-2095, Apr. 2022.

2021

16.    Y. Qiao, M. C. Zhou, N. Q. Wu, Z. W. Li, and Q. H. Zhu, Closing-down optimization for single-arm cluster tools subject to wafer residency time constraints, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 51, no. 11, 6792-6807, Nov. 2021.

17.    W. Q. Xiong, C. R. Pan, Y. Qiao, N. Q. Wu, M. X. Chen, and P. H. Hsieh, Reducing wafer delay time by robot idle time regulation for single-arm cluster tools, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 18, no. 4, 1653-1667, Oct. 2021.

18.    H. F. Chen, N. Q. Wu, Z. W. Li, and T. Qu, Decision on maximal permissiveness of linear constraints via structural analysis of a subclass of Petri nets, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 51, no. 7, 4347-4358, Jul. 2021.

19.    Y. Qiao, S. W. Zhang, N. Q. Wu, M. C. Zhou, Z. W. Li, and T. Qu, Efficient approach to failure response of process module in dual-arm cluster tools with wafer residency time constraints, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 51, no. 3, 1612-1629, Mar. 2021.

20.    Z. C. Liu, N. Q Wu, Y. Qiao, Z. W Li, Performance evaluation of public bus transportation by using DEA models and Shannon’s entropy: an example from a company in a large city of China, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 8, no. 4, 779-795, Apr. 2021.

2020

21.    Q. H. Zhu, M. C. Zhou, Y. Qiao, N. Q. Wu, and Y. Hou, Multiobjective scheduling of dual-blade robotic cells in wafer fabrication, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 50, no. 12, 5015-5023, Dec. 2020.

22.    F. J. Yang, Y. Qiao, K. Z. Guo, N. Q. Wu, Y. T. Zhu, I. W. Simon, and R. Su, Efficient approach to scheduling of transient processes for time-constrained single-arm cluster tools with parallel chambers, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 50, no. 10, 3646-3657, Oct. 2020.

23.  Z. P. Xu, Y. Wang, N. Q. Wu, and X. C. Fu, Propagation dynamics of a periodic epidemic model on weighted interconnected networks, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, vol. 7, no. 3, 1545-1556, Sep. 2020.

24.       Y. Hou, N. Q. Wu, Z. W. Li, and Y. X. Zhang, T. Qu, and Q. H. Zhu, Many-objective optimization for scheduling of crude oil operations based on NSGA-Ⅲ with consideration of energy efficiency, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, vol. 57, Paper NO. 100714, Sep. 2020.

25.    F. J. Yang, N. Q. Wu, Y. Qiao, M. C. Zhou, R. Su, and T. Qu, Modeling and optimal cyclic scheduling of time-constrained single-robot-arm cluster tools via Petri nets and linear programming, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 50, no. 3, 871-883, Mar. 2020.

Research Grants

2023.11 -- 2026.11    Optimization of Scheduling and Control for New Complex Multi-cluster in Semiconductor Manufacturing (FDCT)

2021.12 -- 2024.12    Operational Optimization and Control of Cluster Tools with Multiple Chamber Configuration in a Process Module for Wafer Fabrication (FDCT)

2021.09 -- 2024.09    Self-Learning Optimal Control of City Energy Management System Based on Edge Computing (FDCT)

2019.09 -- 2022.09    Optimal Scheduling and Control of Cluster Tools for Wafer Fabrication with Strict Process Constraints in Semiconductor Manufacturing (FDCT)                                    

2017.03 -- 2020.03    Maximally Permissive Supervisory Control of Resource Allocation Systems Based on Resource-Oriented Petri Nets (FDCT)                                      

2014.03 -- 2017.02    Short-Term Scheduling Optimization for Continuous Process Industry by Using Hybrid System Control Theory (FDCT)

Patents

U.S. Patent 11,263,708 B2: System, method, computer program and data signal for scheduling at least one physical event.

U.S. Patent 10,643,873 B2: Cluster tool apparatus and a method of controlling a cluster tool apparatus.

U.S. Patent 10,520,914 B2: Multi-cluster tool system and a method of controlling a multi-tool cluster system.

U.S. Patent 10,101,721 B2: System and method for determining an optimal schedule of a production line.

U.S. Patent 10,134,613 B2: A cluster tool apparatus and a method of controlling a cluster tool apparatus.

U.S. Patent 10,073,444 B2: Petri net-based optimal one-wafer cyclic scheduling of treelike hybrid multi-cluster tools.

U.S. Patent 10,001,773 B2: Optimal one-wafer scheduling of single-arm multi-cluster tools with tree-like topology.

U.S. Patent 10,001,772 B2: Optimally scheduling of close-down process for single-arm cluster tools with wafer residency time constraints.

U.S. Patent 9,957,959 B2: Linear programming-based approach to scheduling of crude oil operations in refinery for energy efficiency optimization.

U.S. Patent 9,618,930: Scheduling start-up process for time-constrained single-arm cluster tools.

U.S. Patent 9,223,307 B1: Method for scheduling single-arm cluster tools with wafer revisiting and residency time constraints.

U.S. Patent 9,227,318: Optimal buffer space configuration and scheduling for single-arm multi-cluster tools.

Professional Certification and Awards

2021 Hsue-shen Tsien Paper Award for the paper “Polynomial Approach to Optimal One-wafer Cyclic Scheduling of Treelike Hybrid Multi-Cluster Tools via Petri Nets, IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 270-280, Jan. 2018”, Nov. 2021.

Third Class Award of Natural Science, Macau, 2018.

Third Class Award of Technological Invention, Macau, 2016.

First Class Award of Natural Science of Guangdong Province, China, 2010.

Student Awards

2011 QSI Best Application Paper Award Finalist, for the paper "Modeling and Analysis of Dual-Arm Cluster Tools for Wafer Fabrication with Revisiting," by Y. Qiao, N. Wu, and M. C. Zhou, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Trieste, Italy, August 24 - 27, 2011.

Best student paper award, for the paper “Real-time control policy for single-arm cluster tools with residency time constraints and activity time variation by using Petri net,” By Y. Qiao, N. Q. Wu, and M. C. Zhou, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, Beijing, China, April 11-13, 2012.

2016 Best Conference Paper Award Finalist, for the paper “Optimizing close-down processes of single-robot cluster tools via linear programming,” by Y. Qiao, M. C. Zhou, N. Q. Wu, Q. H. Zhu, and Z. W. Li, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Fort Worth, TX USA, August 21-24, 2016.

Professional Society Membership

Fellow, IEEE