 | Prof. Jianhua ZhangOslo Metropolitan University, Norway Jianhua Zhang received PhD degree in electrical engineering and information sciences from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany in 2005. He was Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Sheffield, UK from 2005 to 2006. Dr Zhang has been Professor of Computer Science and a founding deputy head of AI Lab at Department of Computer Science, OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway since 2018. Before joining OsloMet, he spent a stint working at Vekia (a French IT company), Lille, France, as Scientific Director as well as Head of Machine Learning Lab. He was Professor and Head of Intelligent Systems Group at School of Information Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai between 2007 and 2017. From 1999 to 2002 he taught as a Lecturer at Collge of Electronic, Information & Control Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, China. He was Guest Scientist at Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany from 2002 to 2003 and Visiting Professor at Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany during 2008-2015 and the University of Catania, Italy in 2024. Dr Zhang has worked in the fields of artificial intelligence, systems and control, and signal processing since mid-1990s. His recent research interests include computational intelligence, machine learning, cognitive human-machine systems, intelligent systems and control, modeling and control of complex systems, biomedical signal processing, and neurocomputing (neuroergonomics, affective computing, and brain-machine interaction). The primary applications of interest are in the domains of engineering, biomedicine, chemistry, business, and finance. He made significant research contributions in intelligent control of complex industrial systems, cognitive human-machine systems, and AI-driven neuroergonomics and affective computing. As PI he has led over 20 large-scale research projects. So far he has published 4 books, 13 book chapters, and around 200 peer-reviewed scientific journal and conference proceedings papers. |