Zheng Chen received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in control science engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China, in 2004, 2007 and 2012, respectively.

He is currently a Professor with the Faculty of Transportation Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan, China. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow and a Research Scholar with the University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI, USA from 2008 to 2014, and a Marie-Curie Research Fellow with Queen Mary University of London, London, U.K. from 2019 to 2021. He has conducted over 30 projects and has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal papers and conference proceedings. His research interests include autonomous driving of electric vehicles. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.