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 50 projects and has published over 270 peer-reviewed journal papers and conference proceedings. His research interests include eco-driving control of connected and autonomous vehicles and intelligent management of lithium-ion batteries. He won the second prize of IEEE VTS Motor Vehicle Challenge in 2017 and 2018. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and an editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification.