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Richard H. Middleton received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW, Australia, in 1987. He was a Research Professor with the Hamilton Institute, The National University of Ireland, Maynooth, from 2007 to 2011and is currently a Professor with the University of Newcastle. His research interests include a broad range of control systems theory and applications, including robotics, control of distributed systems, and systems biology. Prof. Middleton was the Program Chair (CDC 2006), CSS Vice President Membership Activities, and Vice President Conference Activities. In 2011, he was the President of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is a Fellow of IEEE, and a fellow of IFAC.

Yutaka Yamamoto received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan in 1972 and 1974, respectively, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Florida, in 1976 and 1978, respectively. From 1978 to 1987 he was with Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Kyoto University. In 1987 he joined the Department of Applied Systems Science as an Associate Professor, and became a professor in 1997. He had been a professor at the Department of Applied Analysis and Complex Dynamical Systems, Graduate School of Informatics of Kyoto University until 2015. He is now Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University.

His research and teaching interests are in realization and robust control of distributed parameter systems, learning control systems, and sampled-data systems, its application to digital signal processing, with emphasis on sound and image processing.

He received Sawaragi memorial paper award in 1985, outstanding paper award of SICE in 1987 and in 1997, the best author award of SICE in 1990 and in 2000, the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award in 1996, and the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Prizes for Science of Technology in 2007. He received the IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Member Award in 2009, and the Transition to Practice Award of the Control Systems Society in 2012, as well as the ISCIE Best Industrial Paper Award in 2009. He received the Tateishi Prize of the Tateishi Science and Technology Foundation in 2015.  He is a Fellow of the IEEE, IFAC and SICE.  He served as President of the IEEE Control Systems Society for 2013. He served as vice President for Technical Activities of the CSS for 2005-2006, and as vice President for Publication Activities for 2007-2008. He was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, Systems and Control Letters, Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems.  He served as a Senior Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control for 2010-2011. He also served as an organizing committee member of 35th CDC in 1996, MTNS91 in Kobe, and as a member of program committees of several CDC's. He was the chair of the Steering Committee of MTNS, served as General Chair of MTNS 2006. He is a past President of ISCIE of Japan.

Minyue Fu received his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 1982, and Master and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA in 1983 and 1987, respectively. From 1987 to 1989, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, USA. He joined the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1989 and became a Chair Professor in Electrical Engineering in 2003. He joined the Southern University of Science and Technology in 2023. His current research interests include networked control systems, distributed estimation and control, high-precision control, and reinforcement learning. He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Automatica and Journal of Optimization and Engineering. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of IFAC, Fellow of Engineers Australia, and Fellow of Chinese Association of Automation.

Jie Huang studied Power Engineering at Fuzhou University from 1977 to 1979 and Circuits and Systems at Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST) from 1979 to 1982 for a Master degree.  He completed his Ph.D. study in automatic control at Johns Hopkins University in 1990.  After a year with Johns Hopkins University as a postdoctoral fellow and four years with industry in USA, he joined the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in September 1995, and is now Choh-Ming Li Research Professor of Mechanical and Automation Engineering.  His research interests include nonlinear control, networked multi-agent systems control, game theory, and guidance and control of flight vehicles. He has authored/co-authored four monographs and over 400 papers. 

He was elected HKIE Fellow in 2017, CAA Fellow in 2010, IFAC Fellow in 2009, and IEEE Fellow in 2005, and is now a life fellow of IEEE.

Jie Chen holds the appointment of Chair Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. He received the B.S. degree in aerospace engineering from Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian, China in 1982, the M.S.E. degree in electrical engineering, the M.A. degree in mathematics, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering, all from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1985, 1987, and 1990, respectively. Prior to joining City University, he was with The University of California, Riverside, California from 1994 to 2014, where he was a Professor and served as Professor and Chair for the Department of Electrical Engineering. He has also held guest positions and visiting appointments with institutions in Australia, Chile, China, France, Germany, Japan, and Sweden. His main research interests are in the areas of linear multivariable systems theory, system identification, robust control, optimization, time-delay systems, networked control, and multi-agent systems. He is the author of several books, on subjects ranging from system identification to time delay systems, and to information-theoretic control and fundamental control limitations. 

An elected Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of AAAS, Fellow of IFAC and a Yangtze Scholar/Chair Professor of China, Dr. Chen received US National Science Foundation CAREER Award, SICE International Award, and Natural Science Foundation of China Outstanding Overseas Young Scholar Award. He was an IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Distinguished Lecturer.  He served the IEEE and IFAC communities in various capacities, including, as a member on the CSS Board of Governors and a CSS Chapter Activities Chair, and a member of the IFAC Technical Board. He also served on a number of journal editorial boards, as an Associate Editor and a Guest Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, a Guest Editor for IEEE Control Systems Magazine, an Associate Editor for Automatica, an Associate Editor and a Guest Editor for International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, and the founding Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Control Science and Engineering. He presently serves on the editorial boards of International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, and SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. He routinely serves on program and organizing committees of international conferences, most recently as the General Chair of the 3rd IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, and the International Program Committee Chair of the 16th IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems.

Gang Feng received the B.Eng and M.Eng. Degrees in Automatic Control from Nanjing Aeronautical Institute, China in 1982 and in 1984 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 1992. 

Professor Feng was a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at University of New South Wales, 1992-1999. He has been with City University of Hong Kong since 2000, where he is now a Chair Professor of Mechatronic Engineering and the director of Centre for Robotics and Automation. He has received the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award, the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award, the Outstanding Research Award and President Award of City University of Hong Kong, Alexander von Humboldt fellowship, and several best conference paper awards. He is listed as a SCI highly cited researcher by Clarivate Analytics since 2016. His research interests include intelligent systems and control, networked control systems, and multi-agent systems and control. 

Professor Feng is a fellow of IEEE. He has been an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, & Cybernetics, Mechatronics, Journal of Systems Science & Complexity, Journal of Guidance, Navigation & Control, and Journal of Control Theory and Applications. He is also on the advisory board of Unmanned Systems.

Prof. Li Qiu received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto in 1990. After briefly working in the Canadian Space Agency, the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences (Waterloo), and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (Minneapolis), he joined Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1993 and worked there until very recently. In 2023, he started working in Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen. Prof. Qiu’s research interests include system, control, optimization theory, and mathematics for information technology, as well as their applications in manufacturing industry and energy systems. He is also interested in control education and co-authored an undergraduate textbook “Introduction to Feedback Control” which was published by Prentice-Hall in 2009. He served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Automatica. He was the general chair of the 7th Asian Control Conference, which was held in Hong Kong in 2009. He was a Distinguished Lecturer from 2007 to 2010 and was a member of the Board of Governors in 2012 and 2017 of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He was the founding chairperson of the Hong Kong Automatic Control Association and a vice president of Asian Control Association. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IFAC.

Dr. Wei Chen received the B.S. degree in engineering and the double B.S. degree in economics from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2008. He received the M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic and computer engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, in 2010 and 2014, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science at Peking University. Prior to joining Peking University, he worked at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and University of California at Berkeley for postdoctoral research, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as a Research Assistant Professor. His research interests include linear systems and control, networked control systems, phase theory, optimal control, smart grid, and network science.

Sonja Stüdli received her Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and her Master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the ETH Zurich, Switzerland in 2008 and 2011, respectively. She received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 2016. She is currently working at the University of Newcastle as a research academic in the School of Engeneering. Her research interests include multi-agent systems, networked control, vehicle platooning, load management, smart grid operations, and distributed control.