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, He is currently a Ph.D student with L2S (Laboratory of Signals and Systems) and Université Paris-Sud located at Gif-sur-Yvette, France. His research interest includes time-delay systems, Chi Jin was born in Shanghai, China in 1989. He received the B.S. degree from Tongji University, 2012.

, His research interest includes control systems and nonlinear dynamical systems, with emphasis on timedelay systems. He authored or co-authored more than 100 papers in archive journals and technical conferences, and is the lead author of the book Stability of Time-Delay Systems. He was the US Coordinator of three US-France cooperative research projects. He is currently serving or served in editorial board of a number of major technical journals in the systems and control area, including Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and Systems and Control Letters. He

, Since 2016, he is an associate member of Inria Saclay DISCO project. His research interest belongs to the field of the qualitative theory of dynamical systems and its application in control. It covers the analysis of the delay effect on dynamics, stability and stabilization of delay systems and hyperbolic partial differential equations, oscillations and periodic solutions of functional differential equations, control of vibrations. He authored or co-authored 2 monographs and more than 30 papers in journals, book chapters and international conferences proceedings, December 2008, he received his Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from Normandy University. In 2016 he obtained the French habilitation (HDR) in Physics from University Paris Saclay. In 2010, I, 1992.

. Dr, Niculescu was awarded the CNRS Silver and Bronze Medals for scientific research and the Ph, respectively. For further information, 1996.