Da-Wei Gu has held lecturing positions at Shanhai Jiao Tong and Oxford Universities and is now a Reader in Leicester. He has been involved in many industrial projects, mainly in the aerospace and manufacturing sectors. He is the co-author of Perturbation Theory for Matrix Equations (North-Holland/Elsevier) 0-444-51315-9 in addition to his over 120 refereed journal and conference papers. Doctor Gu received a prestigious JSPS fellowship from the Japanese Government in 1997. He is a founder member of NICONET, the EU network for reliable software for control engineering. Doctor Gu is a Chartered E...