Panos J. Antsaklis received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. His main research interests are in the area of systems and control, and in particular in linear feedback systems, and in intelligent autonomous control systems, with emphasis on hybrid and discrete event systems and on reconfigurable control. He is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He has held regular and visiting teaching and research positions at Imperial College of the University of London, Brown University, Rice University, MIT, the National Technical University of Athens, and the Technical University of Crete, Greece. Dr. Antsaklis has been awarded a departmental outstanding teacher award, he has been keynote speaker of a number of conferences and he is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He has authored a number of publications in journals, conference proceedings and books and has co-edited two books He has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and the Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, and he has been the guest editor of special issues in these and other journals. He has served as program chair and general chair of major systems and control conferences, he is an IEEE Fellow and the 1997 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society.Derong Liu received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, in 1994, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 1987, and the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the East China Institute of Technology (now Nanjing University of Science and Technology), Nanjing, China, in 1982. From 1982 to 1984, he was a product design engineer at China North Industries Corporation, Jilin, China. From 1987 to 1990, he was an instructor at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. From 1993 to 1995, he was a staff fellow at General Motors Research and Development Center, Warren, Michigan. From 1995 to 1999, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. He joined the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1999 as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, where he is now an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, of Bioengineering, and of Computer Science. He has also coauthored many books, served on many committees, and recieved many honors and awards in his tenure.