Xi Wang received the B.S. degree in Automation from Liren College, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China, in 2008, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Xidian University, Xi'an, China, in 2011 and 2016, respectively. He joined Xidian University in 2016. During 2013 and 2015, he was a visiting Ph.D. student at the Systems Control Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada. Dr. Wang has been awarded a 24-month Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers during February 2018 and January 2020. His research interests include dynamic reconfiguration and scheduling of real-time systems and supervisory control of discrete-event systems.
Zhiwu Li received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Automatic Control, and Manufacturing Engineering, respectively, all from Xidian University, Xi'an, China, in 1989, 1992, and 1995, respectively. He joined Xidian University in 1992. Over the past decade, he held a visiting professorship at the University of Toronto, Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), University of Cagliari, and Meliksah Universitesi. He is now with the Institute of Systems Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau. His research interests include Petri net theory and applications, supervisory control of discrete-event systems, and systems engineering. Dr. Li is a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Research Grant, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. He is a fellow of IEEE (2016).