Zhongsheng Hou (IEEE Fellow, 2020) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Jilin University of Technology, Jilin, China, in 1983 and 1988, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 1994. From 1995 to 1997, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. From 2002 to 2003, he was a visiting scholar with Yale University, CT, USA. From 1997 to 2018, he was with Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, where he was a Distinguished Professor and the Founding Director of the Advanced Control Systems Laboratory, and the Head of the Department of Automatic Control. He is currently a Chair Professor and head of the Academy of Sciences Science and Control, Qingdao University, China.

He has authored or coauthored more than 260 peer-reviewed journal papers and more than 160 papers in prestigious conference proceedings. He has authored two monographs, NonparametricModel and its Adaptive Control Theory (Science Press, 1999), in Chinese, and Model Free Adaptive Control: Theory and Applications (CRC Press, 2013). His pioneering work on model-free adaptive control has been verified inmore than 230 different field applications, laboratory equipment and simulations with practical background, including wide-area power systems, lateral control of autonomous vehicles, and temperature control of silicon rod. His works on data-driven learning and control has been supported by multiple projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, including three Key Projects in 2009, 2015, and 2019, and a Major International Cooperation Project in 2012. His research interests include data-driven control, model-free adaptive control, learning control, and intelligent transportation systems.

Prof. Hou is the Founding Director of the Technical Committee on Data Driven Control, Learning and Optimization, Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), and is a Fellow of CAA. He is also an International Federation of Automatic Control Technical Committee Member of both “Adaptive and Learning Systems” and “Transportation Systems.” He was the Guest Editor for two Special Sections on the topic of data-driven control of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS in 2011, and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS in 2017.

E-mail：    zshou@qdu.edu.cn； zhshhou@bjtu.edu.cn

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