A list of the professional achievements of the Professor Derong Liu includes:Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), since 2005AdCom Member (elected), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, 2006-2009Editor, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Electronic Letter, 2004-presentLetters Editor, IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, 2006-presentAssociate Editor, Automatica, 2006-presentAssociate Editor, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 2006-presentAssociate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, 2004-2006Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, 2001-2003Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems-I, 1997-1999 Member, Conference Editorial Board, IEEE Control Systems Society, 1995-2000General Chair, IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensingand Control, Sanya, China, 2008General Chair, 4th International Symposium on Neural Networks,Nanjing, China, 2007Program Chair, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Hong Kong, 2008Program Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Approximate Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2007Program Chair, 21st IEEE International Symposium on IntelligentControl, Munich, Germany, 2006Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 2006University Scholar, University of Illinois, 2006-2009 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 1999Harvey N. Davis Distinguished Teaching Award, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1997Michael J. Birck Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, 1990Listed in Who's Who in AmericaListed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering