Professor Guoqiang Hu joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2011, where he is currently a full professor. He received a B.Eng. in Automation from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2002, M.Phil. in Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2004, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Florida in 2007. His research interests include optimization and control, distributed optimization and game theory, and data science, with applications to multi-robot systems and smart city systems