Xiaoping Liu received his B.Sc. Degree in automation from Northeastern University (China) in 1984, his M. Sc. Degree and Ph. D. degree in Control Theory and Applications from Northeastern University (China) in 1987 and 1989, respectively. From 1989 to 2000, he was with the Department of Automatic Control at Northeastern University (China). He has held visiting appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University, in the Institute of Information Theory and Automation at Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, in the Department of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and in the Department of mathematics at the City University of Hong Kong. He joined Lakehead University as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering in July 2001.