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Shihua Li was born in Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province, China in 1975. He received his bachelor, master, and Ph.D. degrees all in Automatic Control from Southeast University, Nanjing, China in 1995, 1998 and 2001, respectively. Since 2001, he has been with School of Automation, Southeast University, where he is currently a professor. His main research interests include nonlinear control theory with applications to robots, spacecraft, AC motors and other mechanical systems. He's senior member of IEEE, published over 100 academic papers in journals including Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, International Journal of Systems Science, International Journal of Control, Aerospace Science and Technology, etc..

Jun Yang received his B.S. degree in the Department of Automatic Control from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China in 2006. In 2011, he received the Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering from School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, where he is currently a lecturer. His research interests include disturbance estimation and compensation, advanced control theory and its application to flight control systems, motion control systems and process control systems.

Wen-Hua Chen received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Department of Automatic Control at Northeast University, China, in 1989 and 1991, respectively. From 1991 to 1996, he was a lecturer in Department of Automatic Control at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. He held a research position and then a lectureship in control engineering in Centre for Systems and Control at University of Glasgow, UK, from 1997 to 2000. He currently holds a senior lectureship in flight control systems in Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering at Loughborough University, UK. He has published more than 100 articles in journals and confe