Lin Pan received the M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics from Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2007 and Ph.D. degree in Control engineering from the Donghua University, Shanghai, China, in 2010. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Sino-German joint Ph.D. with The FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany. From 2010 to 2016, he was with the School of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, China, as an associate Professor. From 2011 to 2012, he conducted his postdoctoral research with King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. From 2013 to 2016, he was with The Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust(SnT), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, as a Marie Curie Research Fellow and Senior Researcher. Since 2016, he is with School of Logistics Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, as a Professor. From May 2019 to November 2019, he was with The Fachgebiet Regelungssysteme, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, as a Senior research scholar. His current research interests include Control for Shore-to-Ship Power in Port, Control of Wind Energy for Off-shore Wind Farms, Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Control of Complex Dynamic Network System and Multi-Agent Systems. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed academic papers, including over 20 in reputable journals. He has been an Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member of several referred international journals. He also serves as a Reviewer for over 60 international journals/papers.