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Yun Feng received the B.E. degree in automation and the M.S. degree in control theory and control engineering from the Department of Automation, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2014 and 2017, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2020. From July to November 2019, he was a Visiting Student with the Institute for Automatic Control and Complex Systems (AKS), University of Duisburg Essen, Duisburg, Germany. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and the National Engineering Research Center for Robot Visual Perception and Control Technology, Hunan University, Changsha, China. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences. Among them 20 papers are in the field closely related to the topic of this book. His research interests include spatial-temporal dynamical systems, fault diagnosis, and soft robotics. He was a recipient of the Excellent Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by the China Association for Science and Technology, the Senior Member of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA). He is serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS MAGAZINE and FRANKLIN OPEN, a youth editorial board member of ROBOT LEARNING. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Han-Xiong Li received the B.E. degree in aerospace engineering from the National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China, in 1982, the M.E. degree in electrical engineering from the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, in 1997. He is currently a Chair Professor with the Department of Systems Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He has a broad experience in both academia and industry. He has authored two books, holds about 20 patents, and has published more than 250 SCI journal articles with H-index 55 (web of science). He has been rated as a Highly Cited Scholar in China by Elsevier since 2014. His current research interests include process modeling and control, distributed parameter systems, and system intelligence. Dr. Li was awarded the Distinguished Young Scholar (overseas) by the China National Science Foundation in 2004, a Chang Jiang Professorship by the Ministry of Education, China, in 2006, and a National Professorship in the China Thousand Talents Program in 2010. He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS: SYSTEMS and was an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CYBERNETICS from 2002 to 2016 and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS from 2009 to 2015. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Yaonan Wang received the B.S. degree in computer engineering from the East China University of Science and Technology, Fuzhou, China, in 1981, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in control engineering from Hunan University, Changsha, China, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, from 1994 to 1995, a Senior Humboldt Fellow in Germany from 1998 to 2000, and a Visiting Professor with the University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, from 2001 to 2004. He has been a Professor with Hunan University since 1995. His current research interests include robot control, intelligent control and information processing, industrial process control, and image processing. Dr. Wang has been a member of the China Engineering Academy since 2019. |