Prof. Jianxiao Zou (邹见效 教授）
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China (电子科技大学)  

Biography: Jianxiao Zou received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Control Science and Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2000, 2003 and 2009, respectively. He is presently working as a Professor at UESTC, and has been serving as the Vice Dean of the School of Automation Engineering since 2011. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, in 2010; and a Senior Visiting Professor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, in 2014. His current research interests include control theory and control engineering, renewable energy control technologies, intelligent information processing and control.
He also has been serving as the director of Sichuan Province New Energy and Intelligent Grid Automation Technology Research Center, the Vice President of Sichuan Electrotechnical Society, the Vice President of Society for electrical engineering, and the Chairman of Member Development, Chengdu Section of IEEE China. He is the recipient of the 3rd Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award from Sichuan Province(2012), 2nd Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award from Ministry of Education(2008), and 2nd Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award from Sichuan Province(2006). He organized more than 10 international conferences/symposiums as general/program chairs and Session Chair. He has been publishing more than 50 journal papers and has been authorized more than 120 Chinese invention patents.