Di Liu received the Ph.D. degree in Cyber Science and Engineering from Southeast University in 2021 and the Ph.D. degree in Systems and Control from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, in 2022. From 2022 to 2024, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow jointly affiliated with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. From 2024 to 2026, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and UKRI Fellow at Imperial College London, United Kingdom, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a co-host institution. She is currently a Full Professor at the Self-Organizing Mobility Laboratory (SOMLab) and the founder of SOMLab at Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

Her research interests focus on adaptive and learning-based control, reinforcement learning, and collective intelligence, with applications in intelligent transportation systems, connected and autonomous vehicles, unmanned multi-domain systems, and the low-altitude economy.

Alessandro Astolfi has been with the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of Imperial College London, London (UK), where he is currently Professor of Nonlinear Control Theory and College Consul for the Faculty of Engineering and Business School. From 2010 to 2022 he served as Head of the Control and Power Group at Imperial College London. He is the recipient of the IEEE CSS A. Ruberti Young Researcher Prize (2007). He is IEEE Fellow, IFAC Fellow and Member of the Academia Europaea.

He served as Associate Editor for Automatica, Systems and Control Letters, the IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control; as Area Editor for the Int. J. of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing; as Senior Editor for the IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control; and as Editor-in Chief for the European Journal of Control. He was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control (2018–2025). He served as Chair of the IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board (2010-2017) and in the IPC of several international conferences. He has served as Chair of the IEEE CSS Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize (2015-2021); he is Vice Chair of the IFAC Technical Board (2020-2023) and he has been/is a Member of the IEEE Fellow Committee (2016), (2019-2022). He is currently a member of the IEEE PSPB Strategic Planning Committee and of the IEEE Fellow Nomination & Appointment Committee.

His research interests are focused on mathematical control theory and control applications, with special emphasis for the problems of discontinuous stabilization, robust and adaptive control, observer design and model reduction.

Wenwu Yu received the B.Sc. degree in information and computing science and M.Sc. degree in applied mathematics from the Department of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, in 2010. Currently, he is the Founding Director of Laboratory of Cooperative Control of Complex Systems and the Deputy Associate Director of Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Networked Collective Intelligence, an Associate Dean in the School of Mathematics, and a Full Professor with the Young Endowed Chair Honor in Southeast University, China.

His research interests include multi-agent systems, complex networks and systems, distributed optimization, smart grids, intelligent transportation systems. Dr. Yu serves as an Editorial Board Member of several flag journals, including IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Science China Information Sciences, Science China Technological Sciences, etc. He is listed by Clarivate Analytics/Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering.

Simone Baldi received the B.Sc. in electrical engineering, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. in automatic control engineering from University of Florence, Italy, in 2005, 2007, and 2011, respectively. He is full professor at Self-organizing Mobility Lab, Southeast University. He was assistant professor at Delft Center for Systems and Control, TU Delft, from 2014 to 2019. He was awarded outstanding reviewer of Applied Energy (2016) and Automatica (2017), and outstanding associate editor for Journal of the Franklin Institute (2023-2024) and IEEE Control Systems Letters (2024). He is a subject editor of International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, a senior editor of IEEE Control Systems Letters, a technical editor of IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, an associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control and IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering. His research interests include adaptive and learning systems with applications in networked systems and intelligent vehicles.