Zhong Yang obtained his PhD in engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1996 and did a 2-year research postdoc at Southeast University in Automatic Control until 1997. He is the chief investigator of several academic and teaching reform research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province. He has also received several highly recognized prizes, including the Second Prize of Science and Technology in China Machinery Industry. Currently, Prof. Yang serves as the dean of the College of Intelligent Science and Control Engineering, Jinling Institute of Technology, as well as the research degree supervisor. His research interests now focus on intelligence science, control engineering, solar energy photovoltaic generation, and optical scattering.