Yan Chen

Associate Professor, Clean Energy Systems, The Polytechnic School

Dr. Yan Chen is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University (ASU), where he founded the Dynamic Systems and Control Laboratory (DSCL). Before joining ASU as an Assistant Professor, he gained three years of full-time automotive industry research experience at Ford Motor Company and Cummins.

Dr. Chen’s research interests include the design, modeling, estimation, control, optimization, and safety of dynamic systems, with applications in connected and automated ground vehicles, hybrid and electric vehicles, multi-agent mobile systems, energy systems, and mechatronic systems. His research has been funded by federal agencies and industry partners, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Naval Research (ONR), Arizona Commerce Authority (ACA), General Motors (GM), Intel, SRP, Cox, MathWorks, U-Haul, and others. He is the author or co-author of more than 90 peer-reviewed publications, one book, and three patents.

Dr. Chen serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles and as an Associate Editor for IFAC Mechatronics, IFAC Control Engineering Practice, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Automotive Innovation, and the IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board. He received the 2020 SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award and the 2019 DSCC Automotive and Transportation Systems Best Paper Award.

Dr. Chen received the B.S. and M.S. degrees, with honors, in Control Science and Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2004 and 2006, respectively. He received a second M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University, Houston, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus, in 2013.