2 Co-Editors-in-Chief for TII and 3 Co-Editors-in-Chief for TIE Announced
During Industrial Electronics Society’s Administrative Committee (AdCom) meeting, held on 27 June 2026 in Nagoya, Japan, IES President Professor Juan José Rodríguez Andina has appointed 2 co-Editors-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE) and 3 co-Editors-in-Chief (co-EiC) for IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics (TII). The appointment is advised by Publication Committee and validated by AdCom members.
The co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics who will serve their three-year term from 2027 to 2029 are:
- Vinod Khadkikar, Co-EiC for TIE (2027-2029), second term
- Youmin Zhang, Co-EiC for TIE (2027-2029)
The co-Editor-in-Chiefs of IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics who will serve their three-year term from 2027 to 2029 are:
- Zhiwei Gao, Co-EiC for TII (2027-2029), second term
- Honghai Liu, Co-EiC for TII (2027-2029), second term
- Shen Yin, Co-EiC for TII (2027-2029), second term
See their biography below.
Vinod Khadkikar
Co-Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics for a three-year term (2027-2029), second term
Vinod Khadkikar (IEEE Fellow) received M. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IITD), New Delhi, India, in 2002 and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Ecole de Technologie Superieure (E.T.S.), Montreal, QC, Canada, in 2008. From December 2008 to March 2010, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada. From April 2010 to December 2010, he was a Visiting Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA. Currently he is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Khalifa University (formerly as Masdar Institute) Abu Dhabi, UAE. His research interests include applications of power electronics in distribution systems and renewable energy resources, grid interconnection issues, power quality enhancement, active power filters and electric vehicles. Dr. Khadkikar is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Industry Applications Society.
Youmin Zhang
Co-Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics for a three-year term (2027-2029)
Youmin Zhang is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering and the Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design and Innovation, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in automatic control from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, in 1983, 1986, and 1995, respectively. His main research interests are in the areas of condition monitoring, fault detection and diagnosis, fault-tolerant control, and remote sensing with applications to single and multiple unmanned aerial/space/ground/marine vehicles, smart grids, smart cities, and cyber-physical systems. He has published 8 books, over 550 journal and conference papers with high citations. He has been selected in World’s Top 2% Scientists list. He has been elevated to IEEE Fellow “for contributions to fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control systems”. Dr. Zhang is also a Fellow of Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME), an Editorial (Advisory) Board Member, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor of several international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, etc. He has served as (Honorary) General Chair, Program Chair of several unmanned systems and renewable energies relevant international conferences. He was the President of International Society of Intelligent Unmanned Systems during 2019-2022.
Zhiwei Gao
Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions on Industrial Informatics for a three-year term (2027-2029), second term
Zhiwei Gao (Fellow IEEE) received BEng in Industrial Automation, MEng and PhD degree in Systems Engineering all from Tianjin University, respectively in 1987, 1993 and 1996. His research interests include soft sensors, fault diagnosis, fault tolerant control, data driven approaches, machine learning, artificial intelligence, digital twins, biometrics, and their applications in wind turbines, power electronics, electric vehicles, and offshore energy systems. He was elevated to the IEEE Fellow in 2023. He was awarded the RAEng/Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow in 2024, and Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in 2025. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He is also the academic editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics: Systems, and Renewable Energy (Elsevier).
Honghai Liu
Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions on Industrial Informatics for a three-year term (2027-2029), second term
Honghai Liu (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in intelligent robotics from Kings College London, London, U.K., in 2003. He is a Professor with the Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China. He is also a Professor of human machine systems with the University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, U.K. His research interests include intelligent sensing and understanding, machine learning, intelligent robotics, and their applications with an emphasis on approaches that could make contribution to the intelligent connection of perception to action using contextual information. Prof. Liu is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.
Shen Yin
Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions on Industrial Informatics for a three-year term (2027-2029), second term
Shen Yin is the DNV Endowed Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He received his MSc and Dr.-Ing. degrees from the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. His research focuses on the fundamental principles and methodological development underlying fault diagnosis, prognosis, and fault-tolerant mechanisms in complex systems. He has also worked extensively on machine learning and data-driven modelling, with emphasis on the theoretical aspects that support inference, reliability analysis, and decision-making under uncertainty. In recent years, he has contributed to the foundations of assurance frameworks for artificial intelligence and digital-twin-based systems in safety-critical contexts. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA).