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Zhendong Sun, Ph.D., is a researcher and doctoral supervisor, and a recipient of the National Distinguished Young Scholar award. He was selected for the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ “Hundred Talents Program.” In 1990, he earned his bachelor’s degree from the Department of Applied Mathematics at Qingdao Ocean University. He completed his master’s degree in 1993 at the Department of Systems Science, Xiamen University, and obtained his Ph.D. in 1996 from the Seventh Research Laboratory at Beihang University. From 1996 to 1998, he conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University. From 1998 to 2002, he served as an associate professor in the School of Science at Beihang University. During this period, he spent a year each as a research associate at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia. From 2002 to 2005, he was appointed as a senior research associate at the Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM). In 2005, he joined the School of Automation at South China University of Technology as a professor and was approved as a doctoral supervisor in 2006. Since 2012, he has served as a researcher at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on hybrid control design for complex dynamic systems, micro/nano sensing and control for biomedical engineering applications, and autonomous control and cooperative optimization of multi-agent systems. As the first author, he has completed two academic monographs published by Springer and has published 25 papers in international academic journals, 20 of which appeared in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Automatica.