Dr. Qikun Shen received the B.Sc. degree in computer science and applications from the Chinese University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China, in 1996, the M.Sc. degree in computer science and applications from Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in control theorem and control applications from the College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 2015.

Dr. Shen is currently Professor with the College of Information Engineering, Yangzhou University. His current research interests include distributed control, consensus control, fault-tolerant control, adaptive control, fuzzy control, neural networks-based control, and intelligent control.