Education:
              Ph.D.          2007, Mechanical Engineering, University of Florida                                            
              M.Phil.        2004, Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

              B.Engr.       2002, Automation, University of Science and Technology of China

Professional Experience:

• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Kansas State University (2008.7-present)
• Postdoc Associate, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida (2008.1-2008.6)

Teaching:

• ME 570 Control of Mechanical Systems I
• ME 830 Adaptive Control

Research Interests:

• Nonlinear adaptive control, nonlinear optimal control
• Visual servo control and vision-based state estimation
• Multiagent systems, robot control, robotics, control of nano-systems, control of energy systems

Principal Publications in Last Five Years:

• G. Hu, N. Gans, and W. E. Dixon, “Quaternion-Based Visual Servo Control in the Presence of Camera Calibration Error,” International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 489-503, 2010.
• G. Hu, N. Gans, N. Fitz-Coy, and W. E. Dixon, “Adaptive Homography-Based Visual Servo Tracking Control Via A Quaternion Formulation,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 128-135, 2010.
• G. Hu, W. Mackunis, N. Gans, W. E. Dixon, J. Chen, A. Behal, D.M. Dawson, “Homography-Based Visual Servo Control with Imperfect Camera Calibration,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 1318-1324, 2009.
• G. Hu, N. Gans, and W. E. Dixon, “Adaptive Visual Servo Control,” in Autonomous Robotics, Complexity and Nonlinearity, a volume in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Springer, pp. 42-63, Vol. 1, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-387-75888-6.  
• N. Gans, G. Hu, and W. E. Dixon, “Image Based State Estimation,” in Autonomous Robotics, Complexity and Nonlinearity, a volume in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Springer, pp. 4751-4776, Vol. 5, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-387-75888-6. 
• K. Dupree, C. Liang, G. Hu, and W. E. Dixon, “Lyapunov-Based Control of a Robot and Mass-Spring System Undergoing an Impact Collision,” International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol. 206, No. 4, pp. 3166-3174, 2009.
• G. Hu, D. Aiken, S. Gupta, and W. E. Dixon, “Lyapunov-Based Range Identification for Paracatadioptric Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 53, No. 7, pp. 1775-1781, 2008.
• K. Dupree, C. Liang, G. Hu, and W. E. Dixon, “Global Adaptive Lyapunov-Based Control of a Robot and Mass-Spring System Undergoing an Impact Collision,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 1050-1061, 2008.
• G. Hu, C. Makkar, and W. E. Dixon, “Energy-Based Nonlinear Control of Underactuated Euler-Lagrange Systems Subject to Impacts,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 52, No. 9, pp. 1742-1748, 2007.
• C. Makkar, G. Hu, W. G. Sawyer, and W. E. Dixon, “Lyapunov-Based Tracking Control in the Presence of Uncertain Nonlinear Parameterizable Friction,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 52, No. 10, pp. 1988-1994, 2007.
• J. Huang and G. Hu, “A Control Design for the Nonlinear Benchmark Problem via the Output Regulation Method,” Journal of Control Theory and Applications, Vol. 2, pp. 11-19, 2004.
  

Memberships:

• IEEE
• ASME
• Sigma Xi

Awards & Honors:

• Certificate of Outstanding Achievement, University of Florida, 2006, 2007
• Best paper in Session Award, American Control Conference, 2006

Professional Services:

• Program committee member, IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2010

• Associate editor, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2009
• International Program committee member, IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC) of IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC), 2010
• Program Committee member, International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), 2008-2010
• Reviewer for journals: 
• IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
• IEEE Transactions on Robotics
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics -Part B
• IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
• International Journal of Computer Vision
• International Journal of Robotics Research
• International Journal of Control
• International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
• European Journal of Control
• ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control
• AIAA Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics
• Journal of Control Science and Engineering
• Automatica
• ISA Transactions
• Reviewer for conferences:
• IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (2007, 2008, 2009)
• American Control Conference (ACC) (2007, 2009)
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA) (2009)
• IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2008, 2009)
• International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO) (2008, 2009)
• IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC) (2006, 2007, 2008)
• IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA) (2009)
• ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC) (2008, 2009)
• ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) (2009)
• ASME International Mechanical Engineers Congress and Exposition (IMECE) (2009)