Yong Xu was born in Zhejiang Province, China, in 1983. He received the B.S. degree in information engineering from Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang, China, in 2007, the M.S. degree in control science and engineering from Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China, in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2014.

    He was a visiting internship student with the department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, from June 2013 to November 2013, where he was a Research Fellow from February 2018 to August 2018. Now he is a professor with School of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. His research interests include networked control systems, unmanned systems and learning.

    Dr. Xu was a recipient of the Guan Zhaozhi Award at the 38th Chinese Control Conference in 2019, He was honored the Pearl River Young Scholars Program of Guangdong Province in 2017 and the Yangtze River Young Scholars Program by the Ministry of Education of China in 2019.