Albert C. J. Luo, Distinguished Research Professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He is an internationally recognized scientist on nonlinear dynamics, discontinuous dynamical systems, nonlinear physics, and applied mathematics. His main contributions are on developing a local singularity theory for discontinuous dynamical systems, dynamical systems synchronization, generalized harmonic balance method for analytical solutions of periodic motions to chaos, implicit mapping method for semi-analytical solutions of periodic motions to chaos; a nonlinear dynamical theory for the Hilbert 16th problem; nonlinear Hamiltonian chaos.