Zhigang Zeng is a Professor and the Dean of School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China. He has over 20 years of experience in teaching and research of system synthesis and analysis, and was awarded by the IEEE Fellow Membership Grade for contributions to analysis and synthesis of neurodynamic systems. His current research interests include theory of functional differential equations and differential equations with discontinuous right-hand sides, and their applications to dynamics of neural networks, memristive systems, and control systems. He has authored or co-authored over 200 scientific papers published in leading journals. He is also a Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science listed by Clarivate Analytics. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, and a member of the Editorial Board of Neural Networks, Cognitive Computation, and Applied Soft Computing. He has been the General Chair, Program Committee Chair, Publications Chair, and Workshop and Special Sessions Chair for over 40 international conferences.