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Dr. Hao Ying (应浩 in Chinese) is Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Michigan, USA. He has published one single-author research monograph/advanced textbook entitled Fuzzy Control and Modeling: Analytical Foundations and Applications (IEEE Press, 2000, 342 pages; foreword by Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh), which contains solely his own research results. He has coauthored another book titled Introduction to Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Control: Theory and Applications (IEEE Press and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014). In addition, he has published 131 peer-reviewed journal papers, over 160 peer-reviewed conference papers, and 6 book chapters. Prof. Ying's work has been highly cited - his Google Scholar h-index is 52 with the total number of citations for all his publications being over 11,000. He is ranked among top 25% of the 100,000 most-cited authors across all 22 scientific fields (176 subfields)*. He was awarded the 2023 IEEE CIS Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award, the highest level honor of the Computational Intelligence Society, with the citation “For fundamental contributions to model-free fuzzy control theory and its biomedical applications.” 　 Professor Ying is serving as an Associate Editor or a Member of Editorial Board for 17 international journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. He served in the same role in the past for seven other international journals. He serves as a Member of the 2023 Fellows Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (was also on the Committee in 2021 and 2020). He served the same committee of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society in 2016, 2017, and 2020. He served as a Member of the Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society between 2008 and 2013 and between 2015 and 2022. He was elected to serve as a Board Member of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society for two terms (2005-2008 and 2008-2011). He served as Program Chair/Co-Chair for four international conferences. He served as the Publication Chair for the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and the Competition Chair for this annual conference 2009-2011. He also served as a Program/Technical Committee Member for over 150 international conferences. He is an IEEE Fellow.