| Assoc Prof Cai Wenjian
Associate Professor
Division of Control & Instrumentation
School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
College of Engineering
Email: EWJCAI@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)6790 6862
Office: S2-B2a-08 |
| Education |
- PhD Oakland University 1992
- MS Harbin Institute of Technology 1983
- BS Harbin Institute of Technology 1980
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| Biography |
| Prof Cai is currently in the School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, since 1999. He received his B. Eng., M. Eng., and PhD from Department of Precision Instrumentation Engineering, Department of Control Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, P. R. China, and Department of Electrical Engineering, Oakland University, U. S. A., in 1980, 1983 and 1992, receptively. Prof Cai has more than twenty years of industry and research experience in the areas of mechanical design, system modelling and simulation, energy and enviromental system automation, and process control. He participated in many industry related research projects, and published more than one hundred technical papers, three books, two patents and received three national awards. He has been often invited as a technical committee member or referee and reviewer for a number of premier conferences and journals, including Journal of Process Control, Energy and Management etc. Prof Cai is a member of IEEE. |
| Research Interests |
| Prof Cai's areas of expertise are system modelling, control and optimization, multivariable system identification and control, sensor and instrumentation, mechanical system simulation and design, and intelligent systems. His current research works focus on industry applications in building HVAC processes, renewable energy processes and environmental processes. |
| Research Grant |
- A*STAR-MND Green Building Joint Grant Call (2012-) [by A*STAR Science & Engineering Research Council (SERC), Ministry of National Development (MND)]
- A*STAR-MND Green Building Joint Grant Call (2012-2015) [by A*STAR Science & Engineering Research Council (SERC)]
- NRF CREATE (2012-2017) [by National Research Foundation (NRF)]
- NRF Competitive Research Program (2012-2017) [by National Research Foundation (NRF)]
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| Current Projects |
- A Novel Energy Efficient Desiccant Dehumidification System
- Development of Tropical Energy Efficient HVAC Systems with Active Chilled Beam Terminal Units
- Development of Tropical Energy Efficient HVAC Systems with Active Chilled Beam Terminal Units
- Development of an Intelligent Monitoring and Control System for Hazardous Waste Chemical Treatment Process.
- Distributed-Cooperative Information Processing and Control
- Singapore-Berkeley Building Efficiency and Sustainability in the Tropics
| Selected Publications | - W. Hu, G. Xiao, and W.-J. Cai. (2011). PID Controller Design Based on Two-Degrees-of-Freedom Direct Synthesis. CCDC'2011.
- Z. G. Shi, Y. G Wang, W. J. Cai,. (2010). IEEE conference on control applications and the ISIC, Mexico City, Mexico, 2001: PID autotuner and its application in HVAC system.Mexico City, Mexico.
- W. Hu, W.-J. Cai, and G. Xiao. (2010). Relative Gain Array for MIMO Processes Containing Integrators or Differentiators. ICARV'2010.
- W. Hu, G. Xiao, and W.-J. Cai. (2010). Simple analytic formulas for PID tuning. ICARV'2010.
- W. Hu, W.-J. Cai, G. Xiao. (2010). Decentralized Control System Design for MIMO Processes with Integrators/Differentiators. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 49(24), 12521-12528.
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