Biography
Professor Steven X. Ding received Dr.-Ing. degreein electrical engineering from the Gerhard-Mercator University of Duisburg, Germany, in 1992. From 1992 to 1994, he was a R&D engineer at Rheinmetall GmbH, Germany. From 1995 to 2001, he was a full-professor of control engineering at the University of Applied Science Lausitz in Senftenberg, Germany, and served as a vice president of this university during 1998 ¨C 2000. Since 2001, he has been a full-professor of control engineering and the head of the Institute for Automatic Control and Complex Systems (AKS) at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research interests are model-based and data-driven fault diagnosis, fault tolerant systems and their applications in industry with a focus on automotive systems, chemical processes and renewable energy systems.
