**About the Editors**

#### **Quanmin Zhu**

Quanmin Zhu is a Professor in control systems at the School of Engineering, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. He obtained his MSc from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 1983, and his PhD from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK, in 1989, and worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of automatic control and systems engineering, University of Sheffield, UK, between 1989-2004. His main research interest is in nonlinear system modeling, identification, and control. He has published over 300 papers on these topics, edited various books with Springer, Elsevier, and other publishers, and provided consultancy to various industries. Currently, Professor Zhu is acting as Editor of Elsevier's book series Emerging Methodologies and Applications in Modelling, Identification and Control.

#### **Giuseppe Fusco**

In 1988, Giuseppe Fusco received the Laurea in Electrical Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II. In 1990 he won a grant entitled "Ottimizzazione delle reti elettriche di trazione urbana e suburbana con metodi non lineari" by the Ansaldo Trasporti. In 1990, he started working as a scientific assistant at the Laboratory of Industrial Engineering at the University of Cassino. In 1995, he served as an assistant professor, and since 2003, he has been an associate professor in control engineering. He has been a member of several Italian and European projects such as ARCAS, IGREENGrid, AEROARMS, WiMUST, DeXRoV, ROBUST, C4E, Robilaut, and Canopies. He is a patentee concerning an innovative relay that detects unintentional islanding operation of a part of a distribution grid. Since 2009, he has been the European regional editor for the "International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control". He is a co-author of about 110 international journal and conference papers. He is the co-author of the Springer book titled "Adaptive Voltage Control in Power Systems: Modeling Design and Applications". His main research interest is in the control of electric power systems and smart grids.

#### **Jing Na**

Jing Na is currently a Professor at the Faculty of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering at the Kunming University of Science & Technology. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, China, in 2004 and 2010, respectively. From 2011 to 2012, he was a Monaco/ITER Postdoctoral Fellow with the ITER Organization, France. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Marie Curie Fellow with the University of Bristol, UK. He has also held visiting positions with the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain, and with University of Bristol, UK.

His current research interests include parameter estimation, adaptive optimal control, and nonlinear control with application to vehicle systems, servo mechanisms, and energy conversion plants (e.g., engine, wave energy converters, etc.). He has authored/co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. Dr Na has been awarded the Best Application Paper Award of the 3rd IFAC International Conference on Intelligent Control and Automation Science (IFAC ICONS 2013), and the 2017 Hsue-shen Tsien Paper Award. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Engineering, Neurocomputing, and International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control. He has served as an international program committee Chair of ICMIC 2017 and DDCLS 2019 and as an IPC member of many international conferences. He has organized/co-organized several special issues in international journals and invited sessions at several prestigious conferences.

#### **Weicun Zhang**

Weicun Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in Control Theory and Applications from Tsinghua University in 1993. His research interests include self-tuning control, multiple model adaptive control, and estimation for both linear and nonlinear dynamic systems. As representative research work, he established a Virtual Equivalent System theory for a unified analysis of a general class of self-tuning control systems and multiple model adaptive control systems, which is independent of specific control strategy and parameter estimation algorithms.

#### **Ahmad Taher Azar**

Prof. Ahmad Azar is a Research Professor at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is also a professor at the Faculty of Computers and Artificial intelligence, Benha University, Egypt. He is a leader of the Automated Systems and Soft Computing Lab (ASSCL), Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia.

Prof. Azar is the Editor in Chief of several renowned international journals, including the *International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology* (IJSSMET), the *International Journal of System Dynamics Applications* (IJSDA), and the *International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development* (IJSKD), published by IGI Global, USA. He is also the Editor in Chief of the *International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics* (IJIEI) published by Inderscience Publishers, UK.

With over 430 research papers published in prestigious peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings, Prof. Azar has made significant contributions to areas such as control systems, robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

Prof. Azar is actively involved in the academic community as a reviewer for international journals and a committee member for international conferences. He has received several awards and honors, including the Egyptian State Encouragement Award in Engineering Sciences and the Abdul Hameed Shoman Arab Researchers Award in Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics. He has also been recognized as one of the top computer scientists in Saudi Arabia and as one of the top 2% of scientists in the world in artificial intelligence by Stanford University.

Additionally, Prof. Azar holds various leadership positions in professional organizations, such as the Vice Chair of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee of Control Design, and the Vice President (North) of the System Dynamics Africa Regional Chapter. He is actively involved in IEEE committees and task forces related to emerging technologies, robotics, fuzzy logic, and computational collective intelligence.
