Shaoyuan Li is a Ph.D. supervisor, IEEE senior member, and currently works in the Department of Automation Shanghai Jiao Tong University as the distinguished professor, the dean of SJTU-ParisTech Elite Institute of Technology, and the vice director of Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education. Pro. Li receives his Ph.D. degree in Computer and System Science from Nankai University in 1997. Eight books and more than 500 papers have been published in journals/conferences, which described his researching accomplishments. Prof. Li has worked in the area of control theory and engineering for more than 25 years and has worked in the area of distributed model predictive control for more than 13 years. He was awarded “Second Prize of National Natural Science Award” in 2018, “The First-class Awards of the Science and Technology Progress by Shanghai Government” in 2006, and “The 1st Class CAA Natural Science Award” by Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) in 2017 Yi Zheng is an assistant professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is an IEEE, IEEE CSS member, and currently works in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; he receives his Ph.D. degree in Control Theory and Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He was with Shanghai Petrochemical Company, Ltd., Shanghai, from 2000 to 2003 and was with GE-global research (Shanghai) from 2010 to 2012. His interested research fields are the distributed control and optimization of large-scale systems and the application of industrial process. Binqiang Xue is an assistant professor of Qingdao University. He currently works in College of Automation, Qingdao University; he receives his Ph.D. degree in Control Theory and Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He owns more than ten peer-viewed papers. He has worked in model predictive control and moving horizon state estimation for more than five years.
