Yang Li is a lecture at the School of Information and Control Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao, China. She obtained her PhD from Yanshan University, China in 2014. She was a visiting student of the University of the West of England in 2012. She is the reviewer of International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, IET Control Theory &, Applications, Journal of Systems and Control Engineering. She is the associate editor of ‘International Journal of Applied Mathematics in Control Engineering. She is also on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Applied Mathematics. Her main research interests are in the areas of sliding mode control, neural network control, time delay system and control applications.