MengChu Zhou received his B.S. degree from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China in 1983, M.S. degree from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China in 1986, and Ph. D. degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in 1990. He joined New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ in 1990, and is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of Discrete-Event Systems Laboratory. His research interests are in Petri nets, computer-integrated systems, wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, system security, semiconductor manufacturing, and embedded control. He has about 300 publications including 6 books, 120+ journal papers, and 16 book-chapters. He co-authored with F. DiCesare Petri Net Synthesis for Discrete Event Control of Manufacturing Systems, Kluwer Academic, Boston, MA, 1993, edited Petri Nets in Flexible and Agile Automation, Kluwer Academic, 1995, co-authored with K. Venkatesh Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems: A Petri Net Approach, World Scientific, 1998, co-edited with M. P. Fanti, Deadlock Resolution in Computer-Integrated Systems, Marcel Dekker, 2005, and co-authored with B. Hruz, Modeling and Control of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, Springer, 2007. Based on the data analysis from Scopus database (the world's most extensive database covering science and engineering papers), in the area of Petri nets, Dr. Zhou ranks the top one in terms of the number of publications; and top two in terms of the number of citations. He ranks the top one in the area of automated manufacturing systems in both indices. He served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation from 1997 to 2000, and IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering from 2004-2007, and currently Managing Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part C, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part A and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems. He served as Guest-Editor for many journals including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing. He was General Co-Chair of 2003 IEEE International Conference on System, Man and Cybernetics, Washington DC, October 5-8, 2003, Founding General Co-Chair of 2004 IEEE Int. Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control, Taipei, March 21-23, 2004, and General Chair of 2006 IEEE Int. Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A. April 23-25, 2006. He was Program Chair of 1998 and 2001 IEEE International Conference on System, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) and 1997 IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation. He is serving as General Chair of IEEE Conf. on Automation Science and Engineering, Washington D.C., August 23-26, 2008. Dr. Zhou was the recipient of NSF's Research Initiation Award, CIM University-LEAD Award by Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Perlis Research Award by NJIT, Humboldt Research Award for US Senior Scientists, Leadership Award and Academic Achievement Award by Chinese Association for Science and Technology-USA, Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE SMC Society, and Chang Jiang Visiting Scholars Program Award from PRC Ministry of Education. He was the founding chair of Discrete Event Systems Technical Committee of IEEE SMC Society, and Chair of Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation Technical Committee of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. He is a life member of Chinese Association for Science and Technology-USA and served as its President in 1999.