Professor Yu Liu received his PhD from the School of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, in 2009. He was a Visiting Student with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, from 2008 to 2009, and a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA, from 2017 to 2018. He is currently a Full Professor with the School of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, and with the R&D Center of Precision Electronic Manufacturing Technology, Guangzhou Institute of Modern Industrial Technology, Guangzhou, China. He is serving as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems and International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing. His current research interests include distributed parameter systems, intelligent control system, robotics, intelligent perception and decision making and machine vision.