Joe H. Chow is a Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Registered Professional Engineer, State of New York, since 1983. In 1979, he won the Donald P. Eckman award from the American Automatic Control Council for outstanding contributions to control engineering by a young engineer. He has served as the Associate Editor for Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Dr. Chow has also participated on the NSF Initiation Grant Review Committee, NSF Presidential Young Investigator Grant Review Committee, and the NSF Small Business Innovative Research Grant Review Committee.