Ronghu Chi received the Ph.D. degree from Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing China, in 2007. He was Visiting Scholar with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from 2011 to 2012 and Visiting Professor with University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, from 2014 to 2015. In 2007, he joined Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China, and is currently a full professor in the School of Automation and Electronic Engineering. He served as various positions in international conferences and was an invited guest editor of International Journal of Automation and Computing. He has also served as a council member of a Shandong Institute of Automation and committee members of Data-driven Control, Learning and Optimization Professional Committee, etc. He was awarded the “Taishan scholarship” in 2016. His current research interests include iterative learning control, data-driven control, intelligent transportation systems, and so on. He has published over 100 papers in important international journals and conference proceedings. Yu Hui received the bachelor’s degree in automatic control from the Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China, in 2016, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Control, School of Automation and Electronic Engineering. His research interests include data-driven control, learning control, and multi-agent systems. Zhongsheng Hou (SM’13-F’20) received bachelor’s and master's degrees from Jilin University of Technology, China, in 1983 and 1988, respectively, and Ph.D. degree from Northeastern University, China, in 1994. He was Postdoctoral Fellow with Harbin Institute of Technology, China, from 1995 to 1997 and Visiting Scholar with Yale University, CT, from 2002 to 2003. In 1997, he joined the Beijing Jiaotong University, China, where he was a distinguished professor and founding director of Advanced Control Systems Lab, and Head of Department of Automatic Control until 2018. Currently, He is Chief Professor at Qingdao University. He is also the founding director of the technical committee on Data Driven Control, Learning and Optimization (DDCLO), Chinese Association of Automation. He is IEEE Senior Member, IFAC Technical Committee Member on Adaptive and Learning Systems and Transportation Systems. His research interests consist of data-driven control, model-free adaptive control, learning control, and intelligent transportation systems.
