中文摘要：

Qianchuan ZHAO received the B.E. degree in Automatic Control in July 1992, the B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics in July 1992, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Control Theory and its Applications in July 1996, all from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is currently a Professor and Director of the Center for Intelligent and Networked Systems （CFINS）, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University. He was a Visiting Scholar at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, in 2000 and 2002, respectively. He was a Visiting Professor at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 2006. His current research focuses on control and optimization of complex networked systems with applications in smart buildings, smart grid and manufacturing automation. He has published more than 80 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He received the 2009 China National Nature Science Award for the project ＂Ol~timization Theory and Optimization for Discrete Event Dynamic System＂. Dr. Zhao is a deputy Editor-in-Chief of Chinese version of the journal Control Theory ＆ Applications, an associate editor for Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, for IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, and for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. He serves as a chair of the technical committee on smart buildings of IEEE RAS. E-mail： zhaoqc@tsinghua.edu.cn.