Gang XiongDr. Gang Xiong received his Ph.D. degrees in Control Science and Engineering in 1996 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CHINA. From 1996 to 1998, he worked as Post doctor and Associate Professor with the Institute of Industrial Process Control, Zhejang University, CHINA. From 1998 to 2007, he successively worked with Automation and Control Institute, Tampere University of Technology, FINLAND (1998-2001), Nokia Corporation, FINLAND (2001-2007), and Accenture and Chevron, USA (2007). In 2008, he worked as Deputy Director with Informatization Office, CAS, CHINA. In 2009, he started his current work as Professor of State Key Laboratory of Management and Control of Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, CAS, CHINA. In 2011, he became Deputy Director of Beijing Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Technology, Deputy Director of Cloud Computing Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is an IEEE Senior member, INFORMS member, INCOSE member, Committee member of Chinese Association of Automation, MARQUIS WHO'S WHO in the world 2007, General Chair of IEEE SOLI 2011, SOLI 2012, and SOLI 2013 etc. Read More Read Less