Yongping Pan received the Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering from the South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou, China in 2011. He was a Control Engineer with the Santak Electronic Company, Ltd., Eaton Group, Shenzhen, China, and the Light Engineer-ing Company, Ltd., Guangzhou from 2007 to 2008. From 2011 to 2013, he was a Research Fellow with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is currently a Research Fellow with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore. He has authored or co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed research papers in journals and conferences. His research interests include automatic control, computational intelligence, and robotics and automation. Dr Pan is an Associate Editor of the In-ternational Journal of Fuzzy Systems, and serves as a Reviewer for several flagship journals. He was a recipient of the Rockwell Automation Master Scholarship, the GDUT Postgraduate Academ-ic Award in 2006, the SCUT Innovation Fund of Excellent Doctoral Dissertations, and the SCUT Ex-cellent Graduate Student Award in 2010.