Ning Sun received the B.S. degree in measurement & control technology and instruments (with honors) from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering (with honors) from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, in 2014. He is currently an IEEE Senior Member.

He is currently a Full Professor with the Institute of Robotics and Automatic Information Systems, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. He was awarded the prestigious Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan (Standard). His research interests include intelligent control for mechatronic/robotic systems with emphasis on (industrial) applications.

Dr. Sun received the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Excellent Youth Award in 2019, the China 10 Scientific and Technological Developments in Intelligent Manufacturing (2nd achiever) in 2019, the First Class Prize of Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Natural Science Award in 2017, the First Class Prize of Tianjin Natural Science Award in 2018, the Golden Patent Award of Tianjin in 2017, the IJCAS (International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems) Academic Activity Award in 2018 and 2019, the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) in 2016, etc.

He is the Executive Editor for Measurement and Control and serves as an Associate Editor (editorial board member) for several journals, including IEEE ACCESS, Frontiers in Neurorobotics, International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems, IET Cyber-Systems & Robotics, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing, etc. Dr. Sun has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Conference Editorial Board (including ACC, IEEE CDC) since July 2019, and he is an Associate Editor for IEEE ICRA 2021 and IEEE/RSJ IROS 2020.

Mara Tanelli was born in Lodi, Italy, in 1978. Since October 2020, she is Full Professor of Automatic Control at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione of the Politecnico di Milano, where she obtained the Laurea degree in Computer Science Engineering in 2003 and the Ph.D. in Information Engineering in 2007, summa cum laude. She also holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago. For her Ph.D. research activities, in 2007 she has been awarded with the Dimitri N. Chorafas Ph.D. Thesis Award and the Claudio Maffezzoni Ph.D. Thesis Award, second edition.

Her main research interests focus on active control systems design for ground vehicles, estimation and identification techniques with application to automotive systems, energy management of electric vehicles, smart mobility, insurance telematics and sliding mode control. She is author and co-author of more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 15 patents in these research areas. For her research activities, she has been awarded with the 2008 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Rudolf Kalman Best Paper Award. In 2011, she received the Control Engineering Practice Best Paper Prize. In 2014, she obtained the IEEE–CSS Italian Chapter Best Young Author Journal Paper Award 2013. Since 2012, she is Senior Member of the IEEE and since 2013 she is a member of the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society. She is currently Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and of the IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.

Xiongbiao Luo has got his phd degree from Nagoya University, Japan. He is currently a professor at the School of Information, Xiamen University, China. His main research are Navigation Endoscopy Systems, Endoscopic Camera Motion Tracking, Intraoperative Patient-to-Model Registration, Manifold Learning for Medical Applications, Computer Assisted Interventiion, Augmented, Virtual, and Enhanced Reality. He joined many internantion conference and served as the Committee member of the conference program, Such as: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2013~2015; He also serves as teh reviewer for many international journals, such as: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging; IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering; IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems; Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics and MICCAI, IEEE, IEEE-EMBS, IEEE-RAS, SPIE.

Zhendong Sun is with the Key Laboratory of Systems & Control, Academy of Mathematics & Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he is currently a Researcher. His research interests are in the fields of nonlinear control systems, switched and hybrid systems, and nano-micro-electronic systems. He is the first author of the monographs ``Switched Linear Systems-Control and Design'' and ``Stability Theory of Switched Dynamical Systems (London: Springer, 2005 & 2011). He serves/served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.