[ "Qing-Long HAN received the BS degree in mathematics from Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China, in 1983, and the MS and PhD degrees in control engineering from East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. He is pro vice-chancellor (research quality) and a distinguished professor at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He held various academic and management positions at Griffith University and Central Queensland University, Australia. He was awarded the 2021 Norbert Wiener Award (the highest award in systems science and engineering, and cybernetics) and the 2021 M. A. Sargent Medal (the highest award of the Electrical College Board of Engineers Australia). He was the recipient of the Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society in 2022, 2020, and 2019, the Norbert Wiener Review Award of IEEE/CAA J Autom Sin in 2020, and the Outstanding Paper Award of IEEE Trans Ind Inform in 2020. He is a member of the Academia Europaea (the Academy of Europe). He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control, an honorary fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia, and a fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation. He is a highly cited researcher in both engineering and computer science (Clarivate). He has served as an administrative committee member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), a member of the IEEE IES Fellows Committee, a member of the IEEE IES Publications Committee, and chair of the IEEE IES Technical Committee on Network-Based Control Systems and Applications. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/CAA J Autom Sin, a co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Trans Ind Inform, and a co-editor of Austr J Electr Electron Eng. His research interests include networked control systems, multi-agent systems, time-delay systems, smart grids, unmanned surface vehicles, and neural networks.E-mail: qhan@swin.edu.au" ]

[ "Derui DING received the BS degree in industry engineering in 2004 and the MS degree in detection technology and automation equipment in 2007 both from Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu, China, and the PhD degree in control theory and control engineering in 2014 from Donghua University, Shanghai, China. From July 2007 to December 2014, he was a teaching assistant and then a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu, China. From June 2012 to September 2012, he was a research assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. From March 2013 to March 2014, he was a visiting scholar in the Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University London, UK. From June 2015 to August 2015, he was a research assistant in the Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. He is currently a senior research fellow with the School of Science, Computing and Engineering Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. He was the recipient of the 2021 Nobert Wiener Review Award from IEEE/CAA J Autom Sin, and the 2020 and 2022 Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Awards from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He is a senior member of the Chinese Association of Automation. He is serving as an associate editor for IEEE Trans Ind Inform, IEEE/CAA J Autom Sin, Neurocomputing, and IET Contr Theory Appl. His research interests include nonlinear stochastic control and filtering, as well as distributed control, filtering, and optimization." ]

[ "Xiaohua GE received the PhD degree in computer engineering from Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia, in 2014. From 2015 to 2017, he was a research fellow with the Griffith School of Engineering, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. He is currently a senior lecturer with the School of Science, Computing and Engineering Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. He is an associate editor of IEEE Trans Ind Inform, IEEE Trans Syst Man Cybern Syst, IEEE Trans Intell Veh, IEEE Trans Circ Syst II Expr Briefs, and IEEE/CAA J Autom Sin. His research interests include networked, secure, and intelligent control and estimation theories, and their applications in electric vehicles, intelligent robotic vehicles, connected automated vehicles, intelligent transportation systems, and so on." ]