Yong Zhang is currently full Professor of Automatic Control, at School of Information Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology since 2019. Prior to this, he was a Post-doctoral researcher in the Control Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology. He received the B.Sc. degree in Mathematics Education in 2001 from Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, China, the MSc degree in Applied Mathematics in 2007 from Three Gorges University, Yichang, China, and the Ph.D. degree in Control Science and Engineering in 2010 from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. From 2014 to 2015, he was a visitor with the Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, U.K. He has published over 30 papers in refereed international journals. His current research interests include fault diagnosis and prognosis, robust control and filtering. He is a very active Reviewer for several international journals.
Zidong Wang is Professor of Dynamical Systems and Computing at Brunel University London, West London, United Kingdom. He was born in 1966 in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China. He received the BSc degree in Mathematics in 1986 from Suzhou University, Suzhou, the MSc degree in Applied Mathematics in 1990 and the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1994, both from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing.
He was appointed as Lecturer in 1990 and Associate Professor in 1994 at Nanjing University of Science and Technology. From January 1997 to December 1998, he was an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow with the Control Engineering Laboratory, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. From January 1999 to February 2001, he was a Lecturer with the Department of Mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. From March 2001 to July 2002, he was a University Senior Research Fellow with the School of Mathematical and Information Sciences, Coventry University, U.K. In August 2002, he joined the Department of Computer Science, Brunel University London, U.K., as a Lecturer, and was then promoted to a Reader in September 2003 and to a Chair Professor in July 2007.
Professor Wang's research interests include dynamical systems, signal processing, bioinformatics, control theory and applications. He has published more than 600 papers in refereed international journals. He was awarded the Humboldt research fellowship in 1996 from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the JSPS Research Fellowship in 1998 from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the William Mong Visiting Research Fellowship in 2002 from the University of Hong Kong. He was a recipient of the State Natural Science Award from the State Council of China in 2014 and the Outstanding Science and Technology Development Awards (once in 2005 and twice in 1997) from the National Education Committee of China.
Professor Wang is currently serving or has served as the Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Systems Science, the Editor-in-Chief for Neurocomputing, Executive Editor for Systems Science and Control Engineering, Subject Editor for Journal of The Franklin Institute, an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Systems, Asian Journal of Control, Science China Information Sciences, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, Control Theory and Technology, an Action Editor for Neural Networks, an Editorial Board Member for Information Fusion, IET Control Theory & Applications, Complexity, International Journal of Systems Science, Neurocomputing, International Journal of General Systems, Studies in Autonomic, Data-driven and Industrial Computing, and a member of the Conference Editorial Board for the IEEE Control Systems Society. He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part C, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing, and an Editorial Board Member for International Journal of Computer Mathematics.
Professor Wang is a Member of the Academia Europaea (section of Physics and Engineering Sciences), a Fellow of the IEEE (for contributions to networked control and complex networks), a Fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation, a Member of the IEEE Press Editorial Board, a Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College of the UK, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a member of program committee for many international conferences, and a very active reviewer for many international journals. He was nominated an appreciated reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing in 2006-2008 and 2011, an appreciated reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems in 2008, an outstanding reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control in 2004 and for the journal Automatica in 2000.
Ye Yuan is currently full Professor of Automatic Control, at School of Artificial Intelligence & Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology since 2016. Prior to this, he was a Post-doctoral researcher in the Hybrid Systems Lab and BAIR Lab, UC Berkeley with Prof. Claire J. Tomlin, a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) at Darwin College, University of Cambridge. He received his B.Sc. degree under the supervision of Prof. Yugeng Xi from Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2008 and M. Phil., Ph.D. from Control Group, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge in 2009, 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Jorge M. Goncalves. He has been holding visiting researcher positions at CDS, Caltech (2011, 2014, 2015), LIDS, MIT (2013), and Imperial College London (2011-2015).
He has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (2019-2020) and IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board (2017-2020). He is the recipient of China National Recruitment Program of 1000 Talented Young Scholars, Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award, Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship, Cambridge Overseas Student Award, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, Henry Lester PhD Scholarship and a number of best paper awards in IEEE conferences. His current research interests include System Identification, Control, Optimization and Machine Learning with applications to the understanding and (re-)design of natural (biology) and man-made systems (manufacturing, robotics and power systems). He has published more than 60 papers in refereed international journals.
