Dr. Zonghua Gu received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has held faculty positions at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, and Umeå University in Sweden. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Hofstra University in the United States. His research interests include real-time embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, and autonomous vehicles.