Lihua Xie is a Professor and the Head of Control and Instrumentation Division at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include robust control and estimation, networked control systems, multi-agent networks, and disk drive servo. In these areas, he has published over 210 journal papers and co-authored two patents and four books. He has served as an Associate Editor of a number of journals and is Fellow of IEEE and IFAC.