Guisheng Zhai received his B.S degree from Fudan University, China, in 1988, and received his M.E and Ph.D degrees, both in system science, from Kobe University, Japan, in 1993 and 1996, respectively. After two years of industrial experience, Dr. Zhai moved to Wakayama University, Japan, in 1998, and then to Osaka Prefecture University, Japan, in 2004. He held visiting professor positions at the University of Notre Dame from August 2001 to July 2002, and at Purdue University from March 2016 through February 2017. In April 2010, he joined the faculty of Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan, where he currently is a full professor of Mathematical Sciences. His research interests include large-scale and decentralized control systems, robust control, switched systems and switching control, networked control and multiagent systems, neural networks and signal processing, etc. Dr. Zhai is on the editorial board of several academic journals including IET Control Theory & Applications, International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Journal of Control and Decision, Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering, and International Journal of Computing Science and Applied Mathematics. He is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of ISCIE, SICE, JSST, and JSME.