Zhong-Ping Jiang is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Polytechnic organization of Engineering, New York University. He received his B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from the University of Wuhan in 1988, an M.Sc. degree in Statistics from the University of Paris XI, France, in 1989, and a Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control and Mathematics from the Ecole des Mines de Paris, France, in 1993.