Jun Zhang

Research Fellow
Room 418, LongBin Hall
UM-SJTU Joint Institute
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
800 DongChuan Road
Shanghai, 200240, China

Email: zhangjun12 at sjtu dot edu dot cn

Research Interests

  • Motion Control
  • Control and System Identification in Quantum Systems

    • Education

  • University of California at Berkeley, EECS, Ph.D., July 2003
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Automation, Dr. Eng., July 1997
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University, B.E. in Automatic Control and and B.S. in Applied Math, July 1993
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    Honors and Awards

  • Kai-Yuan 10 Best Faculties, SJTU, 2019
  • Ling Hong-Xun Excellent Faculty Award, SJTU (2 awardees campuswise), 2017
  • Excellent Research Award, JI, SJTU, 2014
  • Outstanding Teaching Award, SJTU (4 awardees campuswise), 2014
  • Shanghai PuJiang Program, 2011

    • Teaching

  • Automatic Control
  • Linear Systems
  • Nonlinear Systems and Control
  • Advanced Topics in Control I, II
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    Journal Publications

    Quantum Control
    1. Shuixin Xiao, Yuanlong Wang, Jun Zhang, Daoyi Dong, Shota Yokoyama, Ian R. Petersen, and Hidehiro Yonezawa. On the regularization and optimization in quantum detector tomography, Automatica, 155, 111124, 2023.
    2. Shuixin Xiao, Yuanlong Wang, Daoyi Dong, and Jun Zhang. Optimal and Two-step Adaptive Quantum Detector Tomography, Automatica, 141, 110296, 2022.
    3. Shuixin Xiao, Shibei Xue, Daoyi Dong, and Jun Zhang. Identification of Time-Varying Decoherence Rates for Open Quantum Systems, IEEE Trans. on Quantum Engineering, 2, 2102212, 2021.
    4. Hailong Wang, Kai Zhang, Nicolas Treps, Claude Fabre, Jun Zhang, and Jietai Jing. Generation of hexapartite entanglement in a four-wave-mixing process with a spatially structured pump: Theoretical study, Phys. Rev. A, 102, 022417, 2020.
    5. Shibei Xue, Jun Zhang, and Ian R. Petersen. Identification of Non-Markovian Environments for Spin Chains, IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, 27(6), 2574-2580, 2019.
    6. Yuanlong Wang, Daoyi Dong, Bo Qi, Jun Zhang, Ian R. Petersen, and Hidehiro Yonezawa. A Quantum Hamiltonian Identification Algorithm: Computational complexity and Error Analysis, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 63(5), 1388-1403, 2018.
    7. Xiaozhou Pan, Hui Chen, Tianxiang Wei, Jun Zhang, Alberto M. Marino, Nicolas Treps, Claude Fabre, Ryan T. Glasser, Jietai Jing. Experimental realization of quantum feedback parametric amplifier with four-wave mixing, Phys. Rev. B Rapid Communications, 97, 161115(R), 2018.
    8. Yanjun Zhang, Lu Wang, and Jun Zhang. Sensitivity evolution in quantum Hamiltonian estimation, Int. J. Systems, Control and Communications, 9:3, 2018.
    9. Mohan Sarovar, Jun Zhang, and Lishan Zeng. Reliability of analog quantum simulation, EPJ Quantum Technology, 4:1, 2017.
    10. Lishan Zeng, Jun Zhang, and Mohan Sarovar. Schedule path optimization for quantum annealing and adiabatic quantum computing, J. of Phys. A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 49, 165305, 2016.
    11. J. Zhang and M. Sarovar. Identification of open quantum systems from observable time traces, Phys. Rev. A, 91, 052121, 2015.
    12. J. Zhang and M. Sarovar. Quantum Hamiltonian identification from measurement time traces, Phys. Rev. Lett., 113, 080401, 2014.
    13. J. Zhang, G. Q. He, and F. He. Optimal laser pulse design for transferring the nuclear wave packet of H2+, Molecular Physics, 112(14), 1929-1937, 2014.
    14. Y. D. Wu, R. Z. Cai, G. Q. He, and J. Zhang. Quantum Secret Sharing with Continuous Variable Graph State, Quantum Information Processing, 13(5), 1085-1102, 2014.
    15. J. Zhang, L. Greenman, X. T. Deng, and K. B. Whaley. Robust control pulses design for electron shuttling in solid state devices, IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, 22(6), 2354-2359, 2014.
    16. J. Zhang, L. Greenman, X. T. Deng, I. M. Hayes, and K. B. Whaley. Optimal Control for Electron Shuttling, Phys. Rev. B, 87, 235324, 2013.
    17. J. Zhang and R. Kosut. Quantum potential design for electron transmission in semiconductor nanodevices, IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, 21(3), 869-874, 2013.
    18. J. Zhang. Entanglement dynamics of two-qubit pure state, Quantum Information Processing, 12(4), 1627-1636, 2013.
    19. J. Zhang. Geometric method in quantum control, Chinese Science Bulletin, 57(18), 2223-2227, 2012.
    20. P. Kuopanportti, M. Mottonen, V. Bergholm, O.-P. Saira, J. Zhang, and K. B. Whaley. Suppression of 1/f noise in one-qubit systems, Phys. Rev. A, 77, 032334, 2008.
    21. M. Mottonen, R. de Sousa, J. Zhang, and K. B. Whaley. High-fidelity one-qubit operations under random telegraph noise, Phys. Rev. A, 73, 022332, 2006.
    22. J. Zhang and K. B. Whaley. Optimal generation of single-qubit operation from an always-on interaction by algebraic decoupling, Phys. Rev. A, 73, 022306, 2006.
    23. J. Zhang and K. B. Whaley. Generation of quantum logic operations from physical Hamiltonians, Phys. Rev. A, 71, 052317, 2005.
    24. B. L. T. Plourde, J. Zhang, K. B. Whaley, F. K. Wilhelm, T. L. Robertson, T. Hime, S. Linzen, P. A. Reichardt, C.-E. Wu, and John Clarke. Entangling flux qubits with a bipolar dynamic inductance, Phys. Rev. B Rapid Communications, 70, 140501(R), 2004.
    25. J. Zhang, J. Vala, S. Sastry, and K. B. Whaley. Minimum construction of two-qubit quantum operations, Phys. Rev. Lett., 93, 020502, 2004.
    26. J. Zhang, J. Vala, S. Sastry, and K. B. Whaley. Optimal quantum circuit synthesis from Controlled-Unitary gates, Phys. Rev. A, 69, 042309, 2004.
    27. J. Zhang, J. Vala, S. Sastry, and K. B. Whaley. Exact two-qubit universal quantum circuit, Phys. Rev. Lett., 91, 027903, 2003.
    28. J. Zhang, J. Vala, S. Sastry, and K. B. Whaley. Geometric theory of nonlocal two-qubit operations, Phys. Rev. A, 67, 042313, 2003.
    Motion and other controls
    1. Xiaobo Hu, Wei Xu, Yi Gan, Jianbo Su, and Jun Zhang. Towards Disturbance Rejection in Feature Pyramid Network, IEEE Trans. on Artificial Intelligence, 4(4), 946-958, 2023.
    2. Xueke Zheng, Runze Cai, Shuixin Xiao, Jun Zhang, and Mian Li. Primary-Auxiliary Model Scheduling Based Estimation of the Vertical Wheel Force in a Full Vehicle System, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 187, 109946, 2023.
    3. Xueke Zheng, Chen Zhuang, Shuixin Xiao, Yu Qiu, Jun Zhang, and Mian Li. Signal Estimation for Vehicle Body Accelerations Using Piecewise Linear System Identification in the Frequency Domain, Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 23(2), 021003, 2023.
    4. Mingming Zhang, Binyu Xia, and Jun Zhang. Parameter Design and Convergence Analysis of Flux Observer for Sensorless PMSM Drives, IEEE Trans. on Energy Conversion, 37(4), 2512-2524, 2022.
    5. Yanjun Zhang, Jun Zhang, Lu Wang, and Jianbo Su. Composite disturbance rejection control based on generalized extended state observer, ISA Transactions, 63, 377-386, 2016.
    6. Yanjun Zhang, Lu Wang, Jun Zhang, and Jianbo Su. Robust Observer Based Disturbance Rejection Control for Euler-Lagrange Systems, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Volume 2016, 3839505, 2016.
    7. N. Xu, X. Lei, P. Ao, and J. Zhang. Bifurcation analysis for phage lambda with binding energy uncertainty, Computational Biology Journal, vol. 2014, 465216, 2014.
    8. P. Zheng, D. Li, Y. Xi, and J. Zhang. Improved model prediction and RMPC design for LPV systems with bounded parameter changes, Automatica, 49(12), 3695-3699, 2013.
    9. N. Yang, D. Li, J. Zhang, and Y. Xi. Model Predictive Controller Design and Implementation on FPGA with Application to Motor Servo System, Control Engineering Practice, 20, 1229-1235, 2012.
    10. J. Zhang and X. Wang. Hard disk drive seeking profile optimisation via linear programming, Int. J. of Control, 84(4), 758, 2011.
    11. J. Lygeros, K. H. Johansson, S. Simic, J. Zhang, and S. Sastry. Dynamical properties of hybrid automata, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 48(1), 2-17, 2003.
    12. J. Zhang, K. H. Johansson, J. Lygeros, and S. Sastry. Zeno hybrid systems, Int. J. of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 11(5), 435-451, 2001.
    13. J. Zhang, K. H. Johansson, J. Lygeros, and S. Sastry. Dynamical systems revisited: Hybrid systems with Zeno executions, In B. Krogh and N. Lynch editors, Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2000.
    14. J. Zhang and Y. Xi. Some GPC stability results, Int. J. of Control, 70(5), 831-840, 1998.
    15. Y. Xi and J. Zhang. Study on the closed-loop properties of GPC, Science in China (Series E), 40, 54-63, 1997.
    Journal Publications in Chinese (prior to 1998)
    1. J. Zhang and Y. Xi. Several Stability Results on GPC System. Control theory and applications, 15(1), 24-30, 1998.
    2. Y. Xi, J. Zhang, and W. Wu. Further study on properties of GPC system. ACTA Automatica Sinica, 24(3), 400-404, 1998.
    3. J. Zhang and Y. Xi. A direct constrained predictive control algorithm based on geometric analysis. Control and Decision, 12(2), 184-187, 1997.
    4. J. Zhang and J. Chen. Control system design and simulation in Matlab. Electrical Automation, 4, 7-9, 1997.
    5. J. Zhang and Y. Xi. Deadbeat property study on GPC. Control theory and applications, 14(5), 733-737, 1997.
    6. J. Zhang and Y. Xi. Robustness analysis on GPC with noise filter. Control and Decision, 12(3), 260-263, 1997.
    7. J. Zhang and Y. Xi. Eigen polynomial coefficient mapping study in GPC. J. of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 30, 49-59, 1996.
    8. J. Zhang and Y. Xi. Study on the stability of GPC. J. of Zhejiang University, 30, 25-31, 1996.
    9. J. Zhang and Y. Xi. A dynamic matrix control algorithm with constraints. J. of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 30, 18-23, 1996.
    Sports

  • Bronze medal, men's 50M free style swimming, senior age group; the 5th place, men's 60M, senior age group, Shanghai Faculty Sports Games, 2023
  • Gold medal, men's 60M sprint; Bronze medal, solid ball throw, SJTU Faculty Sports Games, 2022
  • Gold medal, men's 50M free style swimming; Gold medal, men's 100M free style swimming, SJTU Faculty Sports Games, 2019
  • Gold medal, men's 50M free style swimming; Silver medal, men's 100M free style swimming, SJTU Faculty Sports Games, 2017
  • Bronze medal, men's 100M free style swimming, middle age group, Shanghai Faculty Sports Games, 2017
  • Gold medal, solid ball throw, SJTU Faculty Sports Games, 2012

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