We are honored to announce that Dr. Anders Lindquist, an academician of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering, a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a chair professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University, has been elected as an member of NAAI Corresponding. This honor aims to recognize its foundational contributions in the fields of control theory, signal processing, and mathematical systems theory, as well as its profound impact on the integration of global intelligent system theory and industrial applications as a bridge for China Europe scientific and technological cooperation.
Academic Crown: A Theoretical Revolutionary Spanning Three Continents
Professor Anders Lindquist is one of the few "Academicians of the Three Academies" in the field of international systems and control - honored as an academician of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering, an academician of the European Academy of Sciences and a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, demonstrating the global radiation of his academic influence. As an emeritus professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden and founding director of the Intelligent Systems and Control Center at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he pioneered the theory of rational covariance extension, which thoroughly reconstructed the mathematical framework of spectral estimation for stochastic systems and laid a milestone foundation for modern signal processing. The spectral estimation geometric method proposed by it has been included in the classic review of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and has become the core theoretical pillar of 5G signal processing algorithms for companies such as Qualcomm and Ericsson.
Professor Lindquist's academic field continues to expand: his leadership in nonlinear system H ∞ control theory has solved the stability problem of robot flexible joint control, and has been applied by ABB Group to the precision calibration system of industrial robotic arms, reducing assembly errors to the micrometer level. Its latest research, "Robust Analysis Framework for Quantum Systems," provides a mathematical tool for fault-tolerant control of quantum computing chips and has received special praise from the 2024 IEEE Control Systems Award jury, stating that it "redefines the physical boundaries of control theory.
Academic Link between China and Europe: Cross disciplinary Architects of Theory and Industry
As a landmark figure in Sino Swiss technology cooperation, Professor Lindquist has been leading the establishment of the "China Europe Intelligent Systems Joint Laboratory" since joining Shanghai Jiao Tong University full-time in 2018, promoting the first joint funding project between the EU's "Horizon Plan" and China's National Natural Science Foundation. The "Multi Scale System Optimization Platform" (MSOP) developed by its team achieves 99.97% power supply reliability in dynamic scheduling of smart grids through the integration of mixed integer programming and reinforcement learning, supporting peak electricity management for over 20 million people in the Yangtze River Delta region.
In the field of industry university research collaboration, the "theory code hardware" three in one training model he established has provided more than 100 composite talents proficient in mathematical modeling and engineering implementation for enterprises such as Huawei and Volvo. The book "Frontiers in Mathematical Systems Theory" edited by him has been listed as a "must read series in control theory" by Springer. The philosophy of "system as language" proposed in the book inspired the algorithm architecture design of Siemens Industrial Brain team.
From Stockholm to Huangpu River: An Engineering Manifesto of a Theoretical Prophet
The essence of cybernetics is to teach machines to understand the rhythm of the world through the language of mathematics, "Professor Lindquist explained his academic beliefs in his 2023 SIAM W.T. and Idalia Reid Award winning speech. As the first European control system scholar to receive this award, he has always emphasized the power of cross-cultural collaboration - the "Distributed System Consistency Protocol" developed by his team has been applied to the scheduling system of the China Europe cross-border high-speed railway, increasing the on-time rate of cross-border trains to 99.5%.
Faced with the energy consumption challenge of AI large-scale models, he is exploring new frontiers in "optimal control guided neural network sparsity". His latest achievement, the Energy Constrained Training Algorithm (ECT), achieved a 60% reduction in energy consumption with the same accuracy in the ImageNet task. The identity of NAAI academician is the coronation of our mission, "he said." We need to create intelligent systems that can both analyze the differential equations of the universe and understand the epic entropy change of human civilization
Conclusion: Composing a Poem in Cybernetics on Differential Manifolds
Professor Anders Lindquist's academic career is a magnificent epic that opens up an intelligent future with the key of mathematics - from the abstract proof of rational covariance to the spectrum optimization of 5G base stations, from the theoretical deduction of quantum control to the precise dance steps of industrial robotic arms, he has always adhered to the belief that "theory must touch the temperature of reality". As he declared at the unveiling ceremony of the Intelligent Systems Center at Shanghai Jiao Tong University: "When we talk about systems, please always remember that this system contains both tensors of state equations and humanity's eternal pursuit of perfection." NAAI's choice is a solemn tribute to this truth.