Jing Jiang received a Ph.D. degree from theUniversity of New Brunswick in 1989. He has been with the Department ofElectrical and Computer Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, ON,Canada since 1991, where he is currently an NSERC/UNENE Senior IndustrialResearch Chair Professor. His current research interests include fault-tolerantcontrol of safety-critical systems, advanced control of power plants containingnon-traditional energy resources, and instrumentation and control for nuclearpower plants. He is a registered professional engineer (P. Eng.) in Ontario anda fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.