Dezong Zhao received the BEng and MS degrees from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2003 and 2006, respectively, and the PhD degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2010, all in control science and engineering. He is currently a senior lecturer in autonomous systems at James Watl School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK. His research interests include connected and autonomous vehicles, machine learning, and control engineering. His work has been recognised by being awarded an EPSRC Innovation Fellowship and a Royal Society-Newton Advanced Fellowship in 2018 and 2020, respectively.