T-ITS Editorial Board Member

Mengchu Zhou received his B.S. degree from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, in 1983, M.S. degree from Beijing Institute of Technology, China in 1986, and Ph. D. degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA in 1990. He joined New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA in 1990, and is now a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in Petri nets, intelligent automation, Internet of Things, AI, optimization, and intelligent transportation. He has over 1200 publications including 17 books, 850+ journal papers (650+ in IEEE transactions), 31 patents and 32 book-chapters. He served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica and Associate Editor/Senior Editor of several IEEE Transactions. He is a recipient of Humboldt Research Award for US Senior Scientists from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Franklin V. Taylor Memorial Award and the Norbert Wiener Award from IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society. His Google citation count is over 74000 with h-index being 137. He is Fellow of IEEE, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) and National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

"Petri nets and discrete event systems in transportation Internet of Things and Internet of Vehicles Communication and control for high-speed trains and rail networks Big data analytics, cloud computing and fog computing in ITS"