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Professor Bai is a leading researcher and authority in the area of system identification and its application in engineering and life science problems. His contributions are impressive in terms of both breadth and depth. His technical contributions and penetrating insights have had a long term impact to the area from which other researchers have drawn benefits. To provide a flavour some of his contributions, some citations are listed as follows:

His papers on persistent excitation are among the best results in the adaptive literature that laid foundation for the input context for convergence. He introduced new ideas for set-membership identification which have led to a number of breakthroughs. Such an approach is warranted when hard bounds on the measurement noise are known, e.g. when the noise source is instrumentation error.

He is a driving force for the block-oriented system identification that becomes more and more important because its wide use in biomedical applications, and has proposed new ways of thinking that helped reshaping the area. He provided convergence proof of an iterative method which was missing for more than 20 years. He proposed a projection idea which is now referred to as “Bai’s over-parameterization method” by many and is the most cited result in the area. He is the first suggesting blind methods and the first proposing and studying a fundamental issue in blocked-oriented-system identification. His contributions have not only solved existing open problems but also defined new research directions.

His ability to look at technical problems using a fresh perspective to develop creative and profound solutions allows him to successfully engage in cross-disciplinary research. One example is in the area of probabilistic robustness analysis.  He is a co-author of a paper which helped to define research directions and is one of the most cited papers in the area. Another example is his leading role in system identification to address biomedical problems and energy efficiency which have led to a large number of publications, grants, patents and technical innovations.\

Prof Bai has published over 250 research papers and book chapters, including over 140 papers in world leading international journals, such as IEEE Transactions and Automatica. He has been invited to give 58 keynote speeches and seminars worldwide. He is the Principal Investigator of a number of research grants funding by research councils and other funding bodies, totalling over $8 millions. To recognize his significant contributions in system identification, he has been elected the IEEE Fellow in 2003.