Prof. Dr. Ning Chen received a B.S. degree in shipbuilding engineering from the Dalian University of Science and Technology, Dalian, Liaoning, China, in 1985; an M.S. degree in general mechanical from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 1991; and a Ph.D. degree in machinery manufacturing and automation from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2009. He is currently a professor at the College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China. His research activities focus on vehicle dynamics and control, mechanical vibration analysis, nonlinear control theory, and fractional calculus theory and application.