[ "", "Prof. Guanrong CHEN received his MS degree in computer science from Sun Yat-sen University, China, in 1981, and his PhD degree in applied mathematics from Texas A & M University, USA, in 1987. He has been a chair professor and the founding director of the Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks at City University of Hong Kong, China since 2000; before that, he was a tenured professor at the University of Houston, USA. Prof. CHEN received the State Natural Science Award of China in 2008, 2012, and 2016. He was elected as an IEEE fellow in 1997, and is now a life fellow. He was awarded the 2011 Euler Gold Medal, Russia and conferred honorary doctorates by the Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, in 2011 and by the University of Le Havre, France, in 2014. He is a member of the Academy of Europe and a fellow of the World Academy of Sciences. He has been a highly cited researcher in engineering since 2009 according to Thomson Reuters/Clarivate. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Int J Bifurc Chaos. His main research pursuit is in nonlinear system control and dynamics, as well as complex networks, E-mail: eegchen@cityu.edu.hk" ]

[ "", "Prof. Sergej ČELIKOVSKÝ; received his MS degree in applied mathematics from the Optimal Control Department, Moscow State University, in 1984, and his PhD degree in Technical Cybernetics from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, in 1988. He was a visiting researcher at University of Twente, the Netherlands, in 1996, at Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering of Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, in 1998, and at CINVESTAV del I.P.N. in Mexico during 1998–2000. Currently, he is a research fellow and head of the Department of Control Theory in the Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences and a professor at the Department of Control Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. He has been an associate member of the Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks at City University of Hong Kong, China since 2003. Prof. ČELIKOVSKÝ; has been a senior member of the IEEE since 2003, and he was a member of general assembly of the European Union Control Association during 2011–2017. He received the SICE 2011 Award for Outstanding Paper from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan, and was awarded EEA (French Association of Professors and Researchers in Electrical and Information Sciences) Demonstrator Paper Prize at the IFAC World Congress 2017 in Toulouse. He authored or co-authored over 70 journals papers, receiving over 2000 citations according to Web of Science, and published a monograph at Prentice Hall. He has been a member of the editorial board or international program committee of various recognized journals and conferences, among them IEEE Trans Autom Contr during 2006–2010 and IFAC World Congress in 2014 and 2017. He served as a subarea chair of IFAC NOLCOS in 2007 and 2010. Currently, he is a subject editor of J Franklin Inst and an associate editor of Int J Bifurc Chaos. His current research interests include nonlinear systems, mechanical systems and robotics, complex systems and networks, chaotic systems, optimal control and optimization, robust control, stabilization and estimation, and modeling and control of biosystems, E-mail: celikovs@utia.cas.cz" ]

[ "", "Prof. Lei GUO received his BS degree in fundamental mathematics and his MS degree in operational research and cybernetics from Qufu Normal University, China, in 1988 and 1991, respectively, and his PhD degree in control engineering from Southeast University, China, in 1997. From 1999 to 2000, he was a research fellow with the IRCCyN, France. From 2000 to 2003, he was a research fellow at University of Glasgow, Loughborough University, and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, all in UK. Currently, he is a professor with the School of Automation Science and Electronic Engineering, Beihang University, China. Prof. GUO is an awardee of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China and a Changjiang Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education of China. He has published more than 170 papers, and served as an editor for several journals. His research interests include robust control, stochastic systems, fault detection, filter design, and nonlinear control with their applications in aerospace systems, E-mail: lguo@buaa.edu.cn" ]

[ "", "Prof. Youmin ZHANG received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in automatic control from Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, in 1983, 1986, and 1995, respectively. He is currently a professor with the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering and the Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design and Innovation, Concordia University, Canada. Prof. ZHANG is a fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), a senior member of AIAA and IEEE, and a member of the technical committee for several scientific societies, including currently being president of the International Society of Intelligent Unmanned Systems (ISIUS). He has authored five books and published more than 500 journal and conference papers. He is an editorial board member, editor/associate editor of several international journals. He has been general or program chair several times for several unmanned systems and renewable energies relevant international conferences. His current research interests include fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) and fault-tolerant control (FTC), guidance, navigation, and control (GNC), and signal/image processing techniques with applications in unmanned aerial/space/ground/surface vehicles, smart grids, and smart cities, E-mail: ymzhang@encs.concordia.ca" ]

[ "", "Prof. Tiancheng LI received two BS degrees from Harbin Engineering University, China, in 2008, and two PhD degrees, the first from London South Bank University, UK, in 2013 and the second from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), China, in 2015. He is currently a professor with the School of Automation, NPU. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the BISITE Group, University of Salamanca, Spain, from June 2014 to the fall of 2018, and a visiting scholar with the Vienna University of Technology, Austria in the summer of 2017 and in the fall of 2018. He is an associate editor of Front Inform Technol Electron Eng and Adv Distrib Comput Artif Intell J. His research focuses on distributed information fusion, and data-driven algorithms for target detection, tracking, and forecasting, E-mail: t.c.li@nwpu.edu.cn" ]