Xiang Cheng is the Associate Professor with Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the National University of Singapore. He is the Area Director of Control, Intelligent Systems and Robotics. He received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Fudan University, China in 1991, the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, in 1994 and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Yale University in 2000. From 2000 to 2001 he was a financial engineer at Fannie Mae, Washington D.C. U.S.A. He has been with the National University of Singapore since 2001. He was the chairman of the IEEE Singapore Control Systems Chapter from 2010 to 2011. His research interests include artificial intelligence, control theory and practice, and systems biology.
