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Wei Ren, Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA 92521 Voice: 951 827 6204 Fax: 951 827 2425 Email: ren [at] ece [dot] ucr [dot] edu

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Wei Ren is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Riverside. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, in 2004. From 2004 to 2005, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. He was an Assistant Professor (2005-2010) and an Associate Professor (2010-2011) with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Utah State University. His research focuses on distributed control of multi-agent systems and autonomous control of unmanned vehicles. Dr. Ren is an author of three books Distributed Average Tracking in Multi-agent Systems (Springer 2020), Distributed Coordination of Multi-agent Networks (Springer-Verlag, 2011) and Distributed Consensus in Multi-vehicle Cooperative Control (Springer-Verlag, 2008). He was a recipient of the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize in 2017 and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2008. He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, and Systems and Control Letters. He is an IEEE Fellow and IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer.