Dr. Jiang received his BESc. from Xi'an Jiaotong University, in Xi'an, China in 1982, and MESc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of New Brunswick, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada in 1984 and 1989, respectively. He started his academic career as a lecturer in Marine Institute in St. John's, Newfoundland in 1988, and became as an Assistant Professor in Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario in July 1990. From 1991, Dr. Jiang has been with the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, where he currently is a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. From 1996 to 1997, he spent one year in Yamaguchi University, in Ube, Japan as a visiting Associate Professor on his sabbatical leave. From 2003, he has been an NSERC/UNENE Senior Industrial Research Chair in the area of control, instrumentation, and electrical systems in nuclear power plants. He is currently serving on NSERC Grant Selection Committee for the period of 2005 to 2007.
Dr. Jiang has wide range of research interests, including fault-tolerant control of safety-critical systems (aircraft, nuclear power plants), advanced control of electrical power plants and power systems (combustion, generation, transmissions, and fuel cells), and advanced signal processing for diagnosis applications (manufacturing processes and human hearts). He has published extensively in the above areas including a recent book on active fault-tolerant control systems.
Dr. Jiang is also a passionate teacher, and has won several teaching awards in the last few years. He is currently supervising a large number of graduate students.

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