Dr. Qu received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in June 1990. Since then, he has been with the University of Central Florida (UCF). He is a Pegasus Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, the PI and Director of DoE-funded FEEDER center, and the SAIC Endowed Professor at UCF. He is the author of three books, including Robust Control of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems by John Wiley & Sons (1998) and Cooperative Control of Dynamical Systems by Springer Verlag (2009). Dr. Qu is serving on the board of ECEDHA, and is/was an Associate Editor for Automatica, IEEE ACCESS, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and International Journal of Robotics and Automation. Currently, he is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE AES and also serves as the chair of IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Smart Grid. He is a Fellow of IEEE and AAAS.​