Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2019, Professor Yongduan Song is a distinguished Chinese control scientist and artificial intelligence researcher whose research and professional work have focused on intelligent control, adaptive control, fault-tolerant control, and intelligent robotic systems. Born in June 1962 in Changshou, Chongqing, he received his B.S. from Sichuan University in 1983, his M.S. from Chongqing University in 1986, and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Tennessee Technological University, USA, in 1992, following doctoral studies at Beihang University and the University of Newcastle, Australia. From 1993 to 2008, he held a tenured full professorship at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and, from 2005 to 2008, served as one of the six Langley Distinguished Professors and Founding Director of the Center for Cooperative Systems at the National Institute of Aerospace, USA. He returned to China in 2008 as a Professor at Beijing Jiaotong University and served as Dean of the School of Automation at Chongqing University from 2012 to 2022, where he currently serves as Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute. In November 2025, he was elected a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He currently serves as Dean of the School of Data Science and Chair Professor of Industrial Data Science at Lingnan University. He is a Fellow of IEEE, the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, and the Chinese Association of Automation, and has been included in Stanford University’s list of the world’s top 2% of scientists and Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers.