Prof. Dr. Cheng Hu is currently a Professor and Doctoral Advisor of Mathematics and System Science at Xinjiang University. He received an M.S. degree in Operations Research and Control Theory and a Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from the College of Mathematics and System Science, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China in 2009 and 2012, respectively. In 2015, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Texas A&M University Qatar, Doha, Qatar, for three months. From September 2018 to September 2019, he was a Visiting Research Fellow with the University of Rhode Island, South Kingstown, RI, USA. His current research interests include fixed-time stability and applications, cooperative control of complex systems, dynamic analysis and control of neural networks.