Mo Hongqiang, PhD, received his academic training from South China University of Technology and the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Yonsei University, Republic of Korea. He has served as Principal Investigator for one project each funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Education's Fund for Returned Overseas Scholars, the Guangdong Provincial Industry-University-Research Collaboration Program (as institutional PI), the Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Support Program (as institutional PI), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. He has also participated as a key member in five research projects, including an open grant from the State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, and scientific and technological key projects funded by Guangdong Province and Guangzhou Municipality. His research interests include mechanism analysis of genetic algorithm coding, signal processing and instrument development for ventilators and cough monitors, and process control of rotary kilns. He was awarded the First Prize of Guangzhou Science and Technology Progress Award (2005) and the Second Prize of Guangdong Science and Technology Progress Award (2007, ranked 5th). In the past three years, he has published six papers as first author, including two indexed by SCIE and one in an EI-comprehensive journal. He holds one invention patent and one utility model patent, and has registered two software copyrights.

Dr. Mo has contributed to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, serving as a team member in the construction of Principles of Automatic Control (a Guangdong Provincial Excellence Undergraduate Course), and teaching Intelligent Information Processing (for both master's and PhD students), Linear System Theory (for engineering master's students), and Electrical Control and Programmable Logic Controllers (undergraduate course). He is also a co-author of the textbook Principles of Automatic Control (published by Electronics Industry Publishing House, 2011). He was honored with the title "My Favourite Supervisor" at South China University of Technology (2009) and received the Sixth University-Level Teaching Achievement Award (First Class, 2008, ranked 5th).