Professor Han is currently Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Quality) and a Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He held various academic and management positions at Griffith University and Central Queensland University, Australia. His research interests include networked control systems, multi-agent systems, time-delay systems, smart grids, unmanned surface vehicles, and neural networks.

Professor Han was awarded the 2024 IEEE Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award (the Highest Award in Industrial Electronics), the 2021 Norbert Wiener Award (the Highest Award in Systems Science and Engineering, and Cybernetics) and the 2021 M. A. Sargent Medal (the Highest Award of the Electrical College Board of Engineers Australia). He was the recipient of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award in 2019, 2020, and 2022, respectively, the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica Norbert Wiener Review Award in 2020,  and the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Outstanding Paper Award in 2020. 

Professor Han is a Member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe). He is a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic  control (FIFAC), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE), an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia (HonFIEAust), and a Fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation (FCAA). He is a Highly Cited Researcher  in both Engineering and Computer Science (Clarivate).  He has served as an AdCom Member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), a Member of IEEE IES Fellows Committee, a Member of IEEE IES Publications Committee,  Chair of IEEE IES Technical Committee on Network-Based Control Systems and Applications, and the Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He is currently the President-Elect, an Executive Board Member, and a Steering Committee Member of Asian Control Association (ACA). He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica and the Co-Editor of Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.