**About the Editor**

#### **Quanxin Zhu**

Professor Quanxin Zhu received his Ph.D. degree from Sun Yatsen (Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou, China, in 2005. He is currently a Professor at Hunan Normal University, a distinguished professor of Hunan Province, Leading talent of scientific and technological innovation in Hunan Province, and deputy director of the Key Laboratory of computing and stochastic mathematics of the Ministry of education. He won the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany award and the Highly Cited Researcher Award from Clarivate Analytics in 2018 and 2022. He won the first prize of the Hunan Natural Science Award, and was ranked in the top two percent of the world's top scientists in 2020 to 2022. In addition, Professor Zhu is a senior member of the IEEE and the Lead Guest Editor of several international journals. Professor Zhu obtained the 2011 Annual Chinese "The One Hundred Most Influential International Academic Papers" Award and wasone of the most cited Chinese researchers from 2014–2021 (Elsevier). He is an associate editor of various international journals, including *IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering*, *Application Analysis*, etc., and a reviewer for more than 50 other journals. He is the author or co-author of more than 300 journal articles. His research interests include stochastic control, stochastic systems, stochastic stability, stochastic delayed systems, Markovian jump systems, and stochastic complex networks.
