Zhongsheng Hou

IEEE Fellow

Qingdao University, China

Biography: 

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.

Jinde Cao

IEEE Fellow

Southeast University, China

Biography: 

Jinde Cao is an Endowed Chair Professor, the Dean of Science Department at Southeast University (SEU). He is also the Director of National Center for Applied Mathematics at SEU-Jiangsu of China and Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Networked Collective Intelligence of China. He is also Honorable Professor of Institute of Mathematics and Mathematical Modeling, Almaty, Kazakhstan.He was a recipient of the National Innovation Award of China, Jiangsu Province May 1 Labor Medal, IETI Annual Scientific Award, Obada Prize and the Highly Cited Researcher Award in Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics by Clarivate Analytics. He is elected as a fellow of IEEE, a member of Russian Academy of Sciences, a member of the Academia Europaea, a member of Russian Academy of Engineering, a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, a fellow of African Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of Pakistan Academy of Sciences.