Zhengtao DingZhengtao Ding is a professor of control systems in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, at the University of Manchester, in the United Kingdom. He has authored and co-authored three books, including the book Nonlinear and AdaptiveControl Systems (IET, 2013), and the book Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems: An Optimal and Robust Perspective (Academic Press, Elsevier, 2020). Dr. Ding has published over 300 research articles, with most of them in leading academic journals in his research area. His research interests include nonlinear and adaptive control theory and their applications, more recently network-based control, distributed optimization, and distributed machine learning, with applications to power systems and robotics. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Drones and Autonomous Vehicles, and the Specialty Chief Editor for Nonlinear Control for Frontiers in Control Engineering. He also serves as the Editor-in-Chief for an encyclopedia in the systems and control subject area, commissioned by Elsevier. He is an associate editor and past associate editor for a number of journals, including Scientific Reports, International Journal of Systems Sciences, Journal of Franklin Institute, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, among others. He is a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Nonlinear Systems and Control, IEEE Technical Committee on Intelligent Control, and IFAC Technical Committee on Adaptive and Learning Systems. He is a Fellow of The Alan Turing Institute, the U.K.’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. Read More Read Less