LIUPING WANG, PHD, is a Professor at RMIT University in Australia. An electrical engineer by training, Professor Wang gained substantial process control experience by working in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Toronto, Canada, and the Center for Integrated Dynamics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the author of four books in the areas of model predictive control, control systems for electric drives and power converters, system identification, and PID control.