Xi Jin received her Ph.D. degree in computer science from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 2013 and is currently a Professor at the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Her research interests include industrial networks, mixed-criticality scheduling, real-time scheduling, Internet of Things, and cyber-physical systems. She is a senior member of the China Computer Federation (CCF) and a member of the CCF technical committee on embedded systems.

Changqing Xia received his Ph.D. degree from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 2015 and is currently an Associate Professor at the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. His research interests include industrial networks, mixed-criticality systems and industrial edge computing, especially scheduling algorithms and edge-cloud collaboration optimization. He is a senior member of the China Computer Federation and a member of the CCF technical committee on embedded systems.

Chi Xu received his Ph.D. degree from the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2017 and is currently an Associate Professor at the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China. His research interests include industrial wireless networks, 5G URLLC, and tactile Internet. Dr. Xu is a 3GPP standardization delegate, a Voting Member of the IEEE 1918.1 Working Group for Tactile Internet and a member of the IEEE 1932.1 Working Group for Licensed/Unlicensed Spectrum Interoperability in Wireless Mobile Networks.

Dong Li received his Ph.D. degree from the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2016 and is currently a Professor at the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. His research interests include industrial internet, software defined networking, real-time scheduling and industrial 5G. He is a co-chairman of ST8WG1 of China Communications Standards Association.