Junyao Xie

Junyao Xie received a B.Sc. degree and M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Beijing, China, in 2014 and 2017, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in Process Control from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, in 2021. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta. His research interests include state estimation, soft sensing, process control, infinite-dimensional systems, transfer learning, reinforcement learning, and their applications in the smart automation of energy and chemical systems.