Prof. Jian Sun
Senior Member, IEEE
Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Biography: Jian Sun (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Bachelor’s degree from the Department of Automation and Electric Engineering at Jilin Institute of Technology, Changchun, China, in 2001, the Master’s degree from Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Changchun, China, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China, in 2007. He was a research fellow at Faculty of Advanced Technology, University of Glamorgan, UK, from April 2008 to October 2009. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, from December 2007 to May 2010. In May 2010, he joined the School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, where he has been a professor since 2013. His current research interests include autonomous unmanned systems, networked control systems, and data-driven control.
He is a member of the Editorial Boards of several journals including IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics: System, Science China Information Sciences, Journal of Systems Science & Complexity and ACTA AUTOMATICA SINICA.

Prof. Lixian Zhang
IEEE Fellow
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Biography: Lixian Zhang received the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2006. From January 2007 to September 2008, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department Mechanical Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada. He was a Visiting Professor at the Process Systems Engineering Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, from February 2012 to March 2013. Since January 2009, he has been with Harbin Institute of Technology, where he is currently full professor and vice dean of School of Astronautics. His research interests include multimodal systems, model predictive control, and their applications in the field of specialized robots.
Prof. Zhang serves as Senior Editor for IEEE Control Systems Letters, and served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, etc. He was named to the list of Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers in 2016–2021. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of China. He is a Fellow of IEEE.

Prof. Qinglai Wei
Senior Member, IEEE
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Biography: Qinglai Wei (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in automation and the Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 2002 and 2009, respectively. From 2009 to 2011, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He is currently a Professor of the Institute of Automation and the Associate Director of the State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has authored four books and published over 80 international journal articles. His research interests include adaptive dynamic programming, neural-network-based control, optimal control, nonlinear systems, and their industrial applications. Dr. Wei has been the Secretary of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Beijing Chapter since 2015. He is a Board of Governors (BOG) of the International Neural Network Society (INNS) and a Council Member of CAA. He was a guest editor for several international journals. He was a recipient of the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica Best Paper Award, the IEEE System, Man, and Cybernetics Society Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award, the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Outstanding Paper Award, the Outstanding Paper Award of Acta Automatica Sinica, the IEEE 6th Data Driven Control and Learning Systems Conference (DDCLS2017) Best Paper Award, and the Zhang Siying Outstanding Paper Award of Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC). He was a recipient of the Shuang-Chuang Talents in Jiangsu Province, China, the Young Researcher Award of Asia Pacific Neural Network Society (APNNS), and the Young Scientist Award and the Yang Jiachi Tech Award of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA).