Biography
Junjie Qin is an Assistant Professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Before joining Purdue, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley, working with Prof. Kameshwar Poolla and Prof. Pravin Varaiya. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Hydraulic and Hydropower Engineering (2010) and a Bachelor of Economics degree (2010) from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Computational and Mathematical Engineering (2018) from Stanford University, where he also received an M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering (2011) and an M.S. degree in Statistics (2017). His research interests include electric energy systems and transportation networks. He has been awarded the Google Research Scholar Award in 2022, the 2020 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award by the American Automatic Control Council, the Best Student Paper Award at the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, the Best Student Paper Finalist at the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the Satre family fellowship on energy and sustainability.