Chunhua Yang has served as a subject matter expert in Advanced Manufacturing Technology (863 Program), a member of Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), a member of the Process Control Technical Committee of CAA, a member of the Technical Committee of Component and Instrument of CAA, a member of the Technical Committee on Control Theory of CAA, Secretary-General of Computer Science Committee in nonferrous Metals Society of China, and Vice-Chair of the IFAC TC 6.2 Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing. She also serves as an associate editor for several journals including Acta Automatica Sinica, Control Theory & Applications, etc. She served as the Chair of the National Organizing Committee in the 5th IFAC workshop on Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing held in Shanghai, August 2018. Prof. Yang has won many prestigious awards and honours, including the Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress for 3 times Bei Sun obtained his PhD degree in 2015, which was jointly supervised by Central South University and New York University. Since Dec 2015, he is with the School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, as a Lecturer. From Dec 2016 to Sep 2018, he is a postdoctoral researcher of the School of Chemical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland. His research interests include process modeling, identification and control, intelligent manufacturing of process industries. He is a recipient of the Fisrt Prize of Science and Technology of the Nonferrous Metals Society of China, and a member of IFAC TC 6.2.