Editor Name: Jinde Cao

Designation: Professor

University: Southeast University

Country: China

Biography: Professor Cao received the B.S. degree from Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China, the M.S. degree from Yunnan University, Kunming, China, and the Ph.D. degree from Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, all in Mathematics/Applied Mathematics, in 1986, 1989, and 1998, respectively. From March 1989 to May 2000, he was with the Yunnan University. In May 2000, he joined the School of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. From July 2001 to June 2002, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. In the period from 2006 to 2008, he was a Royal Society Research Fellow and a Visiting Professor at the School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics, Brunel University, UK. Currently, he is a distinguished professor and doctoral advisor at the Southeast University, prior to which he was a Professor at Yunnan University from 1996 to 2000.