Albert C.J. Luo

Dr Luo systematically developed stability and bifurcation theory in nonlinear dynamical systems, and he also developed discontinuous dynamical systems for many applications in science and engineering., and he developed an analytical technique that is more effective to achieve periodic motions to chaos analytically. Since the 18th century, one has extensively used techniques such as perturbation methods to obtain approximate analytical solutions of periodic motions in nonlinear systems. Toward analytical chaos in nonlinear systems systematically presents an approach to determine periodic flows to chaos or quasi-periodic flows in nonlinear dynamical systems with/without time-delay. The analytical techniques presented provides a better understanding of regularity and complexity of periodic motions and chaos in nonlinear dynamical systems. Dr Luo developed a dynamical system synchronization theory based on the local singularity theory of discontinuous dynamical systems. Techniques can be implemented for engineering applications.

Since 1998, Luo has worked at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville as an assistant/associate/full/distinguished research professor.

Luo received his B.S. in mechanical engineering (1984), M.S. in engineering mechanics (1990) in China, and Ph.D. in applied mechanics (1996) in Canada. During 1996-1998, he was an NSERC (National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada) post-doctoral fellow at UC Berkeley.

Albert C.J. Luo (born 1964) is a distinguished research professor of mechanical engineering at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, USA. Luo is an international recognized scientist in the field of nonlinear dynamics and mechanics. His principal research interests lie in the field of Hamiltonian chaos, nonlinear mechanics, and discontinuous dynamical systems.