Dong Shen is a Professor at the School of Mathematics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China. His research interests include iterative learning control, stochastic optimization, and distributed artificial intelligence.Xinghuo Yu is the Distinguished Professor, a Vice-Chancellor's Professorial Fellow, and an Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Melbourne, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, an Honorary Fellow of Engineers Australia, and a Fellow of the IEEE and several other professional associations.