From October 13 to 16, the 47th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society announced the 2021 IEEE Industrial Electronics Society  blockbuster awards. As the first author, Chen He, associate professor of the School of Artificial Intelligence of our school, was awarded the 2021 IEEE Outstanding Paper for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics with the title of “Nonlinear Control of Underactuated Systems Subject to Both Actuated and Unactuated State Constraints With Experimental Verification”, which is published in the top international journal IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

The IEEE TIE Outstanding Paper Award was established in 1997. It is awarded once a year and awarded to the most original and academic papers published on the journal in the previous year. In 2020, IEEE TIE published more than 1,000 papers. After the nomination of the editorial board, the recommendation of the chief editor, the review of the award committee and the discussion and confirmation of the IEEE IES AdCom, only 3 papers were awarded the 2021 Outstanding Paper Award.

Many top international scholars are included in the past winners of this award, such as:

Giuseppe Buja (IEEE Life Fellow, Honorary Research Scientist at the University of Padua, Italy, Winner of IEEE IES Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award).

Carlo Cecati (IEEE Fellow, professor at the University of L’Aquila, Italy, winner of the title of "Commander of the Republic of Italy").

Ali Emadi (IEEE Fellow, Professor at McMaster University, Canada, Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification).

Yoichi Hori (IEEE Fellow, former professor of the University of Tokyo, Japan, former chairman of the IEEJ Industrial Application Society).

Leopoldo Garcia Franquelo (IEEE Life Fellow, Professor at the University of Seville, Spain, and former Chairman of IEEE IES).

Joachim Holtz (IEEE Life Fellow, Honorary Professor and Advisor of the University of Wuppertal, Germany, winner of the IEEE Lamme Gold Medal).

Emil Levi (IEEE Fellow, Professor at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, Editor-in-Chief of several authoritative journals).

Lennart Harnefors (IEEE Fellow, Senior Chief Scientist of ABB, Sweden).

Atsuo Kawamura (IEEE Fellow, Honorary Professor of Yokohama National University, Japan).

Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8870254.