Professor Kang-Zhi Liu, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Chiba University, Japan. Professor Liu achieved his Ph.D. degree in 1991 from Chiba University, Japan.  His areas of expertise include Control Theory, Control and Operation of Power Systems, and System Integration of Smart-Grid, and he has worked in these related areas for 27 years (4 years as a professor, 13 years as an associate professor, 5 years as an assistant professor, and 5 years as a graduate student). He is currently Associate Editor of both the International Journal of Control Theory and Applications, and the International Journal of Systems Science.  He is the author of 6 books (two in Chinese and four in Japanese).

Dr. Yu Yao is a Cheng Kong Scholar Chair Professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He also serves as Vice President of Harbin University of Engineering, China. His research interests include nonlinear systems, robust control and flight control. He has published over 100 journal papers.