Deyun Zhou was born in 1964. He received the B. Eng degree and Ph.D. degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University. Since 1991, he has been a teacher of Northwestern Polytechnical University. He was promoted to associate professor and full professor in 1993 and 1997, respectively. His research interests are broadly in the area of integrated control and intelligent systems, with applications to avionics systems, information fusion and mission planning.