Tao Yang (Senior Member, IEEE) is a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries, Northeastern University. He was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, USA, from 2016-2019. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Washington State University in 2012. Between August 2012 and August 2014, he was an ACCESS postdoctoral researcher with the ACCESS Linnaeus Centre, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He then joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as a postdoc, and was promoted to Scientist/Engineer II in 2015.

His research interests include industrial artificial intelligence, integrated optimization and control, distributed control and optimization with applications to process industries, cyber physical systems, networked control systems, and multi-agent systems. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning System. He received Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award and Best Student Paper award (as an advisor) of several international Conference.