Dr. Jianbo Lu is currently a Technical Expert in Advanced Vehicle Controls at Autonomous Vehicle and Controls Research and Advanced Engineering, Research & Innovation Center, Ford Motor Company. He holds a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University. He has published around 70 referred research articles. He is an inventor or co-inventor of more than 100 US patents. His invented technologies have been widely implemented in the tens and millions of vehicles with brand name such as Ford, Lincoln, Volvo, and Land Rover. His research interests include Automotive controls, vehicle dynamics, advanced driver assist systems (ADAS), active safety systems, intelligent vehicle systems (IVS), automated driving, future mobility, prognostics and fault tolerance, personalization and user experience. He is a two-time recipient of the Henry Ford Technology Award at Ford Motor Company. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and he is on the editorial board of International Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems and International Journal of Vehicle Performance. He also serves as the Chair of Intelligent Vehicular Systems and Control Technical Committee under IEEE Society of Systems, Man and Cybernetics. From 2008 to 2014, he served as an Associate Editor for the IFAC J. of Control Engineering Practice. He served as the Vice Chair for Industry and Applications at the 2015’s American Control Conference. Dr. Lu is a senior member of IEEE Control System Society, a member of ASME, SAE, and Tau Beta Pi.