Prof. Dr. Jin-Xi Zhang currently works as a Distinguished Associate Professor (First-level Associate Professor) and Doctoral Supervisor at the State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries, Northeastern University, China. He received a bachelor's degree in automation and a doctorate in control theory and control engineering from Northeastern University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Johannesburg. He was selected as one of the top 2% of scientists in the world in 2024. His main research directions include intelligent control, high-performance control, fault diagnosis, fault-tolerant control, nonlinear control, multi-agent, unmanned systems, image processing, etc.