MengChu Zhou (Fellow, IEEE) received his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in 1990 and then joined the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he is now a Distinguished Professor. His interests are Petri nets, automation, the Internet of Things, and big data. He has over 1200 publications, including 17 books, 850+ journal papers (650+ in IEEE transactions), 31 patents, and 32 book chapters. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IFAC, AAAS, CAA, and NAI.