Biosketch: YangQuan Chen (SM'95-SrM'98) received the B.S. degree in industrial automation from the University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing, China, in 1985, the M.S. degree in automatic control from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree in advanced control and instrumentation from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, in 1998. He had been an Associate Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Utah State University, Logan, and the Director of the Center for Self-Organizing and Intelligent Systems. Since 2012, he joined University of California, Merced, the first research university established in the 21st century in USA where he started MESA Lab (mechatronics, embedded systems and applications http://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu). He is the holder of 13 U.S. patents in various aspects of hard disk drive servomechanics and one US patent on fractional order controller tuning. He has published over 200 journal papers, over 20 book chapter papers, over 300 refereed conference papers, and more than 50 industrial technical reports. His current areas of research interests include: distributed measurement and distributed control of distributed parameter systems using mobile actuator and sensor networks, smart mechatronics and process controls, applied fractional calculus in controls, signal processing and energy informatics, multi-UAV based cooperative personal remote sensing and real time water management and irrigation control. Dr. Chen is an Associate Editor on the Conference Editorial Board of the Control Systems Society of the IEEE (since 2002) and an Associate Editor on the Instrument Society of the America Editorial Board for the American Control Conference (since 2004). He was the General Chair for IEEE/ASME Int. Conf. on Mechatronics and Embedded Systems Applications (MESA) 2010, Qingdao, China and served as Program Chair for the ASME/IEEE Int. Conf. on MESA, Las Vegas, NV, in 2007 and MESA09 San Diego, CA, 2009 and Program Co-Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation for 2006 and 2007. He is the TC Chair for MESA under ASME DED, Chair for MES for IEEE ITSS, and a member of IFAC TC2.2. Dr. Chen is a member of AMA, AWRA, AUVSI, ASME, IEEE, and the American Society for Engineering Education. He serves as an Associate Editor for IET Control Theory and Applications, ISA Transactions, IFAC journals Mechatronics and Control Engineering Practice (CEP), Acta Montanistica Slovaca, Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis (FCAA), Fractional Differential Calculus (FDC), ASME J. of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control and IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (TCST). He is a member of Editorial Advisory Board of An International Journal of Optimization and Control: Theories & Applications (IJOCTA); a founding editorial board member of Unmanned Systems (2013-2015). Currently, Dr. Chen serves as the TC Co-Chair for IEEE Robotics and Automation Society on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Program Co-Chair for ICUAS (Int. Conf. on Unmanned Aricraft Systems) 2016. Since 2015, he serves on IEEE-USA's Committee on Transportation and Aerospace Policy (CTAP) representing IEEE RAS. He is a member of IFAC TC 2.2. His ISI H-index is 35 and Google Scholar MyCitation H-index is 58 and the i10-index is 308.Webpage is at http://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/GoogleMyCitation: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RDEIRbcAAAAJ&hl=en http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-2301-2008https://www.researchgate.net/profile/YangQuan_ChenRead more about this authorRead less about this author