Zhongsheng Hou (IEEE Fellow, 2020) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Jilin University of Technology, Jilin, China, in 1983 and 1988, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 1994. From 1995 to 1997, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. From 2002 to 2003, he was a visiting scholar with Yale University, CT, USA. From 1997 to 2018, he was with Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, where he was a Distinguished Professor and the Founding Director of the Advanced Control Systems Laboratory, and the Head of the Department of Automatic Control. He is currently a Chair Professor and head of the Academy of Sciences Science and Control, Qingdao University, China
He has authored or coauthored more than 260 peer-reviewed journal papers and more than 160 papers in prestigious conference proceedings. He has authored two monographs, NonparametricModel and its Adaptive Control Theory (Science Press, 1999), in Chinese, and Model Free Adaptive Control: Theory and Applications (CRC Press, 2013). His pioneering work on model-free adaptive control has been verified inmore than 230 different field applications, laboratory equipment and simulations with practical background, including wide-area power systems, lateral control of autonomous vehicles, and temperature control of silicon rod. His works on data-driven learning and control has been supported by multiple projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, including three Key Projects in 2009, 2015, and 2019, and a Major International Cooperation Project in 2012. His research interests include data-driven control, model-free adaptive control, learning control, and intelligent transportation systems.
Prof. Hou is the Founding Director of the Technical Committee on Data Driven Control, Learning and Optimization, Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), and is a Fellow of CAA. He is also an International Federation of Automatic Control Technical Committee Member of both “Adaptive and Learning Systems” and “Transportation Systems.” He was the Guest Editor for two Special Sections on the topic of data-driven control of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS in 2011, and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS in 2017.
Prof. Yiming Zhang received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2011 and 2016, respectively. From 2017 to 2019, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA. From 2019 to 2020, he was a Research Fellow with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is now a full professor with Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China. He has authored 1 book from Springer, authored or co-authored more than 100 technical papers in journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include wireless power transfer for electric vehicles and mobile phones, and power electronics converters. Prof. Yiming Zhang was the recipient of the National Oversea High-Level Talent Program and Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations of Tsinghua University in 2016. He was recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics in 2019 and a Distinguished Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics in 2020.
Marc A. Rosen is a Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada. He served as founding Dean from of the Faculty from 2002-08. Dr. Rosen has served as President of the Engineering Institute of Canada (2008-10) and the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (2002-04), and is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario. Dr. Rosen is an active teacher and researcher in thermodynamics, sustainable energy, and the environmental impact of energy systems. Much of his research has been carried out for industry. Earlier, Dr. Rosen was a professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Industrial Engineering at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. While there, he served as department Chair and Director of the School of Aerospace Engineering. He has also worked for such organizations as Imatra Power Company in Finland, Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, and the Institute for Hydrogen Systems near Toronto. Dr. Rosen has received numerous awards and honours, including an Award of Excellence in Research and Technology Development from the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Energy, the Engineering Institute of Canada’s Smith Medal for achievement in the development of Canada, and the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering’s Angus Medal for outstanding contributions to the management and practice of mechanical engineering. He is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the International Energy Foundation.
Muhammad Junaid received his Ph.D. (2020), M.S. (2015), and B.Eng. (2011) in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Power system engineering. Since late 2020, he has been serving as an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at King's College Aberdeen, University of Aberdeen, in Scotland, and a Lecturer in Power Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering, SARHAD University of Science & Information Technology, in Pakistan. Dr. Junaid's research focuses on alternatives to the SF6 gas and key technologies for fault current interruption, including vacuum interrupters, cryogenic dielectrics, and high voltage insulation. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering (CSEE), the European Society for Applied Superconductivity (ESAS), and IAENG Hong Kong, and a life member of the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC). He has been involved in 10 funded projects, presiding over 8 of them, and holds 10 patents and 54 publications.
