Meng Yuan

Meng Yuan

Researcher in control area

About Me

I am currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) with the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Previously, I was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and Researcher with the Automatic Control research group in the Division of Systems and Control, Department of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Before that, I worked as a Research Fellow at the Rehabilitation Research Institute of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. I obtained my Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Melbourne in 2020, advised by Prof Chris Manzie, Prof Iman Shames, Prof Iven Mareels (IEEE Fellow, IFAC Fellow) and Prof Malcolm Good. I completed my Master’s degree in Control Theory and Control Engineering from the State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries, Northeastern University in 2015, supervised by Prof Tianyou Chai (IEEE Life Fellow, IFAC Fellow), Prof Hong Wang (IEEE Fellow) and Prof Ping Zhou.

I am a recipient of the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) in 2023, hosted by Prof Changfu Zou at Chalmers.

I welcome inquiries and collaboration on my research. Please feel free to contact me via:

Email: meng.yuan [at] ieee.org

News and Updates

  • 2026.01 Our paper “Contouring Error Bounded Control for Biaxial Switched Linear Systems” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems.

  • 2026.01 Our paper “Deep reinforcement learning-based energy scheduling for green buildings with heterogeneous stationary and EV batteries” has been accepted by Applied Energy.

  • 2025.10 Our paper “Lifelong Reinforcement Learning for Health-Aware Fast Charging of Lithium-ion Batteries” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification.

  • 2025.06 I will be presenting research on battery safety and recycling at the Swedish Control Conference (Reglermötet 2025) in Lund, Sweden. Excited to discuss sustainable energy applications in control systems.

  • 2025.03 Our paper “Robust Model Predictive Control of Fast Lithium-ion Battery Pretreatment for Safe Recycling” has been accepted by European Control Conference (ECC). I am looking forward to engaging with fellow researchers in Greece this June.

  • 2024.11 Our paper “Building electrical load forecasting with occupancy data based on wireless sensing” has been accepted by Applied Energy, proposing a novel approach to predicting building load using occupancy data.

  • 2024.10 Our paper “Occluded meter reading with pointer mask generation based on generative adversarial network” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement.

  • 2024.09 Conference paper by Master’s student Junwei Xie, “Short-term load forecasting for buildings based on a dynamic weighted edRVFL model” has been accepted for the China Automation Congress (CAC 2025).

  • 2024.07 Our paper “Pointer generation and main scale detection for occluded meter reading based on generative adversarial network” has been accepted to Measurement.

  • 2024.05 Our paper “Wood broken defect detection with laser profilometer based on bi-lstm network” has been accepted to Expert Systems with Applications.

  • 2024.01 Our paper “Joint optimization of steel plate shuffling and truck loading sequencing based on deep reinforcement learning” has been accepted to Advanced Engineering Informatics.