Control System Engineer

Shanshan Li

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Innovative, versatile and results-driven control system engineer with 6+ years of control system R&D and 3 years of engineering experience. Ranked as a Top Talent at GE. Strong technical aptitude.

Key Qualifications:

- 6+ years experience in control system modeling, analysis, designs and simulation.

- Expert on adaptive control, robust control, multivariable control, digital control and PID control.

- 4+ years experience in PLCs (Allen Bradley and GE) including programming, installing, debugging and troubleshooting.

- Lean Six Sigma DAMIC traning.

- Programming skills: MATLAB/Simulink,C, C++, Ladder Logic and Visual Basic.

Education:

Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering – Control Systems (May 2010)

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (GPA: 3.96)

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering – Control Systems (Jan 2007)

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (GPA: 3.95)

Bachelor of Science in Automation (Jul 2004)

Northeastern University, Shenyang, China (Core GPA: 3.84)

Professional Experience:

University of Virginia – Controls Lab, Charlottesville, VA

Aug 2005 – May 2010

Research/Teaching Assistant

- Developed adaptive control designs for single-input single-output (SISO) and multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems in both continuous time and discrete time.

- Designed adaptive control schemes for a class of nonlinear systems.

- Created adaptive sensor uncertainty compensation designs to increase system reliability.

- Applied control system designs on aircraft flight control and artificial pancreas models.

- Instructed students in designing and implementing analog and digital motor control systems.

GE Intelligent Platforms – Control System Business, Charlottesville, VA

Jan 2007 – Nov 2009

Test Design Engineer

- Designed, implemented, debugged, and executed 15 motion functional tests including approximately 2000 test cases to test Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) with various types of servo motors.

- Rewrote and implemented new test designs to reduce the sweep time by 75%.

- Uncovered and wrote up more than 200 issues, traced down to the root causes and worked with global cross-functional development teams to verify resolution of issues.

- Created test plans, prepared for design reviews for the new generation hot standby redundancy systems.

- Trained interns, contractors, and employees on designing, executing tests and analyzing test results.

- Co-organized recruiting events and kept close contact with student organizations to facilitate recruiting.

Northeastern University – Rockwell Lab, Shenyang, China

March 2003 – June 2004

Research Assistant

- Designed a switching control system for a class of hybrid system.

- Developed and implemented DC motor control systems.

- Built a PID process control system to regulate the pressure, temperature and liquid level of a boiler.

- Led a student team of 5 to use Pico PLCs to design experimental applications, such as drawing of lots, exchange-current logic controllers, electronically controlled forward/reverse rotation.

Additional Information:

Professional and Academic Awards:

- Top Talent, GE Intelligent Platforms (2008 Mid-Year, 2008 End-of-Year, 2009 Mid-Year)

- Eight Awards for Expertise and Outstanding Teamwork, GE Intelligent Platforms (2007-2009)

- Summer Fellowship, University of Virginia (2006)

- Northeastern University Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)

- Rockwell Automation Bachelor of Science Scholarship (2003)

Professional and Academic Affiliations:

- Reviewer, IEEE Journals and Conferences (2005-Present)

- Full Member, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society

- Member, Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) Electrical and Computer Engineer Honor Society

- Student Member, IEEE

- Member, Society of Women Engineers (SWE)

Publications:

- Shanshan Li and Gang Tao, “Dynamic approximation based adaptive sensor uncertainty compensation for a class of nonlinear control systems”, submitted to the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA, 2010.

- Shanshan Li and Gang Tao, “Discrete-time multivariable MRAC schemes with output sensor uncertainty compensation”, submitted to the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA, 2010.

- Shanshan Li and Gang Tao, “Output feedback MIMO MRAC schemes with sensor uncertainty compensation”, Proceedings of the 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD.

- Shanshan Li, Gang Tao and Yu Liu, “Discrete-time MRAC schemes using sensor uncertainty compensation with application to artificial pancreas”, Proceedings of 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, 2009.

- Shanshan Li and Gang Tao, “Feedback based adaptive compensation of control system sensor uncertainties”, Automatica, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 393-404, 2009.

- Shanshan Li and Gang Tao, “Adaptive feedback control based artificial pancreas”, Proceedings of the 7th Word Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, pp. 2186-2191, Chongqing, China, 2008.

- Shanshan Li and Gang Tao, “Feedback based adaptive sensor uncertainty compensation for control of LTI systems”, Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference, pp. 4003-4008, New York City, NY.

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