Miaolei Zhou was born in 1976. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in industrial electric automation from the Jilin Institute of Technology, Changchun, China, in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering from Jilin University, Changchun, in 2004. From October 2006 to September 2008, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan. In 2000, he joined the Department of Control Science and Engineering, Jilin University, where he became an associate professor in 2009, and a professor in 2014. He has supervised more than 20 research projects and authored more than 100 research papers. Dr. Zhou is a vice chairman of the Jilin Province Association of Automation, and a member of the Technical Committee on Data Driven Control, Learning, and Optimization of the Chinese Association of Automation.