Bio: Prof. Zhengtao Ding is now Professor of Control Systems in The University of Manchester. His research interests were initially focused on nonlinear and adaptive control theory, and more recently are focused on distributed optimization and control of network-connected dynamic systems, distributed learning and AI applications. His research projects cover various industrial applications, such as distributed optimization in micro grids, formation control of mobile robots and UAVs etc., He has published over 300 research papers, and authored/co-authored three books, including a book entitled “Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Systems” published by IET in 2013. He is a fellow of The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Drones and Autonomous Vehicles, and the Specialty Chief Editor for Nonlinear Control for Frontiers in Control Engineering, and he also serves as, or has been, an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Control Systems Letters, IEEE Transactions on Circuit and Systems II, Journal of Franklin Institute, International Journal of System Sciences, Transactions of Institute of Measurement and Control, Journal of Control Theory and Applications, International Journal of Computing and Automation, Unmanned Systems and several other journals.

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Bio: Derong Liu (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA, in 1994.,He became a Full Professor of electrical and computer engineering and of computer science with the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, in 2006. He was selected for the “100 Talents Program” by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008. He was the Associate Director of the State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, from 2010 to 2015. He has published 18 books.,Dr. Liu is a fellow of the International Neural Network Society and a fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Artificial Intelligence Review (Springer). He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems from 2010 to 2015.

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Bio: Yuanqing Xia (Fellow, IEEE) received the M.S. degree in fundamental mathematics from Anhui University, Hefei, China, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astro nautics, Beijing, China, in 2001.,From 2002 to 2003, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the Institute of Systems Science, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. From 2003 to 2004, he was with the National University of Singapore, Singapore, as a Research Fellow, where he worked on variable structure control. From 2004 to 2006, he was with the University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, U.K., as a Research Fellow. From 2007 to 2008, he was a Guest Professor with Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria. Since 2004, he has been with the Department of Automatic Control, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, as an Associate Professor and then a Professor since 2008. He is currently the President of Zhongyuan University of Technol ogy, Zhengzhou, China. His current research interests include cloud control systems, networked control systems, robust control and signal processing, model predictive control, active disturbance rejection control, autonomous system control, and flight control.

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Bio: She currently serves as Deputy Director of the Academic Committee and Director of the School of Information Science at Central South University, as well as Chair of the Faculty Committee and Chair of the Degree Evaluation Subcommittee at the School of Automation. She is an IEEE Fellow, a Fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation, and a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. She has long been engaged in research on industrial process control, intelligent sensing and automation devices, industrial big data analysis and deep learning, industrial intelligent manufacturing system technology, and industrial embodied large models. She holds over 100 authorized national invention patents, has published more than 400 academic papers (including over 200 indexed in SCI), and has authored three academic monographs.

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Bio: Meiqin Liu received the B. E. and Ph.D. degrees in control theory and control engineering from Central South University, Changsha, China, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. She was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, from 1999 to 2001. She was a Visiting Scholar with the University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA, from 2008 to 2009. She is currently a Professor with the College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. She has authored more than 200 papers in major journals and international conferences. She has led 16 national or provincial or ministerial projects in the last 5 years, including 8 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Her work was supported by the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2010, and by the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars of China in 2012, respectively. She has won a second prize of Science and Technology Award of Zhejiang Province in 2013. 

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Bio: Zheng-Guang Wu (Member, IEEE) is currently a Professor with the Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, Zhejiang University. He has authored or co-authored over 100 articles in refereed international journals. His current research interests include hybrid systems, Markov jump systems, sampled-data systems, fuzzy systems, multiagent systems, Boolean control networks, stochastic systems, and neural networks.,Dr. Wu also serves as an Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member for some international journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Journal of the Franklin Institute, Neurocomputing, International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems, IEEE Access, International Journal of Sensors, Wireless Communications and Control, and IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board. He was named a Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics). He is also an Invited Reviewer of Mathematical Reviews of the American Mathematical Society.

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