The School of Automation (SOA) was founded in 2019 with a development of nearly 60 years. The number of faculty and staff is 206 and has more than 70 leading talents including one academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Automation School has five undergraduate majors: Automation, Measurement and control technology and equipment, Artificial intelligence, Electrical engineering and automation, and Electronic information engineering. The total number of students is 3,883, including 2,829 undergraduate students, 735 postgraduate students, and 319 PhD students. In recent years, SOA possess several scientific research innovation teams and platforms, including：

※ Intelligent Control and Decision Optimization of Manufacturing Process "Subject Innovation and Intelligence Base of Colleges and Universities,

※ National Key Laboratory of "Precision Manufacturing for Extreme Service Performance" (Co-construction),

※ National Engineering Research Center for Advanced Energy Storage Materials (Co-construction),

※ "Non-ferrous Metallurgy Automation" Engineering Research Center, Ministry of Education,

※ "Industrial Intelligence and System" Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education,

※ Key Laboratory of Energy Saving Control and Safety Monitoring of Rail Transit

※ "Power Electronic Equipment and Power Electronic Power Network" Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory,"

※ Hunan Key Laboratory of Photoelectric Intelligent Measurement and Control,

※ "Power electronic System control and optimization" Hunan Engineering Center

In recent years, the faculty has actively carried out research in the fields of intelligent optimization of manufacturing for complex industrial processes, rail transit informatization and electrical control, Intelligent Perception and Process Monitoring, meanwhile, school has made great achievements in scientific researches, such as Key technology of optimization and control in nonferrous metallurgical processes, Key technology and automation devices for heavy metal wastewater optimization process, High performance operation information testing in large blast furnace iron making process, Fault diagnosis and fault testing techniques for the information control system of High-speed trains, Power electronic high efficiency energy saving control technology and device, Complex optimization evolutionary algorithm, Distributed optimization and control of multi-agent systems.

In recent years, SOA has undertaken 510 scientific research projects, including 150 nation-level projects. SOA has won 8 national awards and 20 ministerial and provincial awards, for making contributions to national economic contribution, social development, scientific and technological progress, and promotionto relevant industries. Under the support from CSU and the base of "Intelligent Control and Decision Optimization for Manufacturing Process" (111 project), SOA has organized several international and domestic conferences and established regular cooperation with overseas universities and institutes. There are on average more than hundreds visits by internationally well-known scholars. The school has been established a long-term collaboration and student exchange program with International high-level academic institutions, such as New York University (USA), University of Pretoria (South Africa), Aalto University (Finland), Federation University Australia (Australia), University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), University of Adelaide (Australia) and University of Alberta (Canada). SOA supports PhD candidates to study at the international high-level universities through joint-programs.

We are sincerely searching for excellent scholars at home and abroad to join us. Good working conditions and excellent salary will be provided. A high-level research platform will be created to aid your professional and career development.