• [2011.11.06] Professor Christos Cassandras will be the next elected president of the IEEE Control System Society
• [2011.09.07] Celebration of the 10th anniversary of Ho Yu-Chi’s professional team at Tsinghua University
• [2010.09.26] Party on Mid-autumn Festival
• [2010.09.10] All members in CFINS celebrated 2010 Teachers' Day
• [2010.07.25] Party for 2010's Graduate
• [2010.07.17] Celebration of Professor Peter Luh’s Sixtieth Birthday
• [2009.12.31] CFINS Members Celebrated New Year's Day
• [2009.12.14] The 75th birthday banquet of professor Ho
• [2009.12.13] CFINS Student Seminar 2st- Research Session
• [2009.11.06] CFINS Student Seminar 1st- Career Development
• [2009.10.10] Prof. and Mrs. Ho's Golden Marriage Celebration Party in Boston
• [2009.09.11] All members in CFINS celebrated 2009 Teachers' Day
• [2009.07.13] Party for 2009s' Graduate
• [2009.01.24, US EST] Chinese New Year Party in Prof. Ho's House
• [2008.9.11] Party on Mid-autumn Festival
• [2008.6.22] A Retreat in Mentougou
• [2008.5.19] The 4th Student Seminar of WSN Group
• [2008.5.19] The 3rd Student Seminar of WSN Group
• [2008.5.2] Dr. Jia and two Ph.D. students attended a voluntary teaching activity
• [2008.5.5] A miracle: A nice man helped Zhen Shen on his way home
• [2008.4.22] The 2nd Student Seminar of WSN Group
• [2008.4.18] Student Salon of CFINS
• [2008.4.16] The general meeting of CFINS students
• [2008.4.14] The 1st student seminar of WSN group
• [2007.12.24, US EST] Christmas Eve Party in Prof. Ho's House

Professor Christos Cassandras, many time visitor to CFINS, will be the next elected president of the IEEE Control System Society.

On Sept. 7, 2011, a ceremony is held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Ho Yu-Chi’s professional team and the Center for Intelligent and Networked Systems(CFINS) in Wenjin Hotel. There are about 40 distinguished guests and scholars attended the event.

Prof. Guan Xiaohong, Director of CFINS, summarized the progress and achievements in education and research by the professional team and CFINS. In his remarks, Prof. Ho recalled the birth of the professional team and CFINS and shared with the attendees his confidence and wishes to CFINS. President Gu Binglin, Former President Wang Dazhong and Foundation chair Professor Huo Meiying delivered their congratulations and best wishes to the professional team and CFINS in their speeches.

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[Download]: Speech at the ceremony of 10th anniversary of Ho Yu-Chi's professional team

On September 21th, 2010, faculty members & students took a party for the Mid-autumn Festival.

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September 10, 2010 was the annual Teachers' Day, students in CFINS has prepared the fresh flowers and the greeting cards, expressing their sincere thanks to teachers.

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On July 25th, CFINS faculty members and students hold a party for 2010's graduates at Yushuyuan.

There are three master students graduate from CFINS in 2010. They are: Hong SHEN, Xingshi WANG, and Rui DING.

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In the evening of June 8, 2010, the 60th birthday of Prof. Peter B. Luh was celebrated at the Xiaonanguo Restaurant in Shanghai after the semi-annual project review of Tsinghua – UTC Research Institute for Integrated Building Energy, Safety and Control System. It was a very surprise to Prof. Luh since the celebration was secretly prepared by the faculty and students lead by the CFINS director Prof. Xiaohong Guan. Nearly 50 faculty members and students from Center for Intelligent and Networked Systems (CFINS), Center for Public Security Research and Department of Building Science of Tsinghua University, and senior executives and researchers from United Technology Research Center (UTRC). Prof. Guan presided at the activity as the head of CFINS and Prof. Luh’s Ph. D. student more than 20 years ago. Prof. Guan and Prof. Qianchuan Zhao of CFINS and Dr. Peiyuan Peng of UTRC presented the gifts and best wishes to Prof. Luh on behalf of CFINS and UTRC respectively. Prof. Luh’s current Ph. D. students, Biao Sun and Yuan Gao, shared their happy stories and pleasant experiences working with Prof. Luh and the best wishes on behalf of all CFINS students.

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On Dec. 31, 2009, CFINS held a celebration party for New Year's Day .

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On Dec., 14th, 2009, a banquet was held for the 75th birthday of Prof. Yu-Chi Larry Ho, in the Hall of Europe of Oriental Riverside Hotel in Shanghai. The birthday banquet was prepared by 7 divisions which are Department of Automation in Tsinghua University, School of Electronic and Information Engineering in Xi’an Jiaotong University, Department of Automation in Shanghai Jiaotong University, School of Information Sciences and Engineering in Northeastern University, Department of Control Sciences and Engineering in Zhejiang University, The Key Lab for Systems and Control, Institute of Systems Science in AMSS, CAS, and The Key Lab for Complex Systems and Intelligence Sciences and the State Key Lab for Pattern Recognition in Institute of Automation. There were nearly 70 guests attending this banquet. Many of them were the students or colleges of Prof. Ho.

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On November 13th of 2009, with invitation from CFINS students, three CFINS PhD graduates, Yongcai Wang (the one in picture 1), Tao Sun (the one in picture 2), Qingshan Jia(the one in picture 3), talked about their view about academic research with CFINS students.

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On November 6th of 2009, with invitation from CFINS students, two CFINS graduates, Haifeng Wang (currently working in IBM China Research Laboratory, the left one in picutre 1) and Dianfei Han (currently working in Microsoft's search technology center, the right one in picture 1), came to CFINS talking about how to apply for jobs.

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On Oct. 10, 2009 the family members and close friends of Prof. and Mrs. Ho held a celebration party for their golden marriage in the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA. Over a hundred guests brought their sincere congratulations and best wishes to the couple and celebrated this great event altogether. Prof. Weibo Gong, Prof. Cassandras, and Dr. Qing-Shan Jia attended the party.

More details are available in http://www.sciencenet.cn/m/user_content.aspx?id=263414 .

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September 10, 2009 was the annual Teachers' Day, students in CFINS has prepared the fresh flowers and the greeting cards, expressing their sincere thanks to teachers.

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On July 9th, 2009, faculty members & students took a party for 2009s' Graduate.

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On January 24th of 2009, with friendly invitation from Prof. Yu-Chi (Larry) Ho, the CFINS Ph.D. student Yanjia Zhao who is visiting MIT and two Tsinghua graduates who are studying and working in US went to Prof. Yu-Chi (Larry) Ho's house for Chinese New Year party. Mr. & Mrs. Ho prepared delicious dinner for their guests. The masters and guests enjoyed a great time until late at night before they knew. The people from left to right in the first following photo are: Mrs. Ho , Yanjia Zhao, Margaret, Mengdi Wang (graduated from Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, currently a Ph.D candidate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jianxiang Huang (graduated from School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, currently working in US), Prof. Yu-Chi (Larry) Ho.

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On September 11th, 2008, faculty members & students took a party for the Mid-autumn Festival.

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After the workshop on June 21st, the professors and students of CFINS make a retreat in Mentougou located in the suburb of Beijing. All the professors and students resides in Longquan hotel. They had a discussion in the morning on June 22nd, on the issue of students' career and the future of CFINS. In the afternoon, they had a tour to the Jietai Temple and Tanzhe Temple.

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On May 19th, the 4th student seminar of WSN group (Wireless Sensor Networks group) was held in FIT 3-620. ZHEN Zi-Ning served as the chairman. ZHANG Jian-Song gave a presentation on his paper A Practical SNR-Guided Rate Adaptation, which is about how to adjust data transmission rate according to SNR to improve wireless LAN system. Mr. Zhang also shared some interesting experiences in INFOCOM 2008. (Zhen Zi-Ning)

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On May 19th, the 3rd student seminar of WSN (Wireless Sensor Networks) Group was held at FIT 3-620, with Yuankai GE as the chairman. Haoran FENG, a graduating Ph.D student of our center, introduced his work during the Ph.D period, i.e., maximal wireless network throughput with specific MAC protocols. Haoran introduced the math modeling methods of MAC protocols and how the theoretical analyses together with NS2 simulations. (Yuankai GE)

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Lec. Qing-Shan Jia and two Ph.D. students, Jiang-Hai Li and Tao Sun, attended a voluntary teaching activity which is provided by the Department of Automation from April 28th to May 2nd. The location is in ErTai junior high school in the county of Zhangbei which is a backward region of Hebei province. The education there is long lagging behind due to the lag of economics and the lack of educational resources. Variant courses, free discussions and formal talks were provided to over 800 students and tens of teachers. The feedback returned is quite positive. Moreover, Jiang-Hai Li and Tao Sun went to three students' home for face-to-face discussions. They also visited a local village and the TianLu Sugar Manufacturing Co., Ltd., witch is famous in the north of China.

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Zhen Shen, a graduate student in CFINS, just finished his visit at the Boston University on May 5. On his way home, he lost the suitcases accidentally in his way to the airport. Then a miracle happens. A very nice man found his suitcases, drove all the way to the airport, and gave the suitcases back to Zhen. For more details, please link to http://www.sciencenet.cn/blog/user_content.aspx?id=24279.

On April 21st, the 2nd student seminar of WSN group (Wireless Sensor Networks group) was held in FIT 3-125. WANG Heng-Tao served as the chairman. LIU Zhi-Bin gave a presentation on Mobile Robot Autonomous Localization, including the robot control architecture, major issues with autonomy, localization and mapping building problem. (WANG Heng-Tao)

On April 18th, the 1st Student Salon of CFINS in this term was held in FIT 3-620. Ling Chen served as the chairman. Ling Chen gave a presentation on life in Germany and internship in Infineon Corporate Strategy. (Qiang Li)

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A general meeting of the CFINS students was held on April 16, 2008. Prof. Prof. Qian-Chuan Zhao, Prof. Rui-Xi Yuan, Lec. Qing-Shan Jia, and Assistant Ms. Yanqin Li attended the meeting. To make the lab more comfortable for research and graduate study, to enrich and encourage the communication and positive attitude among the students, the CFINS Student Task Group for Innovation Culture (CFINS STaGIC) announced its birth in this meeting. The first team consists of 6 volunteer students, namly (lexicographically ordered) Jiang-Hai Li, Qiang Li, Xin Li, Chao-Bo Yan, Jing Yuan, Yan-Jia Zhao. In the beginning of every autumn semester, the team member will be updated so that all students have the chance to participate. STeamCI will organize various activities and events to enrich the research and graduate study life of the students, and to encourage the communication among the students. The teachers emphasized the purpose of STaGIC, and encouraged all students to actively involved in the management and construction of CFINS lab. All the students strongly agreed.

On April 14th, the 1st student seminar of WSN group (Wireless Sensor Networks group) was held in FIT 3-125. DING Rui served as the chairman. GE Yuan-Kai gave a presentation on the state of art of localization problem in wireless sensor networks, including some basic approaches, trilateration, and multihop schemes. The reference is the chapter 9 Localization and Positioning in the book Protocols And Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks. (DING Rui)

In Christmas Eve of 2007, with friendly invitation from Prof. Yu-Chi (Larry) Ho, the CFINS student Zhen Shen who is visiting Boston University and three CFINS alumni who are studying in Boston University went to Prof. Yu-Chi (Larry) Ho's house for Christmas Eve party. Mr. & Mrs. Ho prepared delicious dinner for their guests. The masters and guests enjoyed a great time until late at night before they knew. The people from left to right in the first following photo are: Zhen Shen, Jian-feng Mao (Alumnus, master, directed by Prof. Qian-Chuan Zhao), Prof. Yu-Chi (Larry) Ho, Bin-bin Li (Alumnus, directed by A. Prof. Ling Wang), Mrs. Ho, Dong Guo (Alumnus, master, directed by Jing-yan Song), Lin-lin Ye (Wife of Dong Guo, graduated from Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, currently a Ph.D candidate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

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