Professor Biao Huang is an internationally recognized expert in process control, particularly in areas of data analytics, performance monitoring, fault diagnosis, and process identification. He has published extensively with over 300 refereed journal articles and 5 books. The impact of his contributions to process control in general and its application to the oil sands industry in particular is well recognized by such awards as IEEE Fellow, the Syncrude Canada Innovation Award by CSChE and the NSERC senior industrial research Chair position at Alberta. Huang is currently the Editor-in-Chief for Control Engineering Practice, Subject Editor for Journal of the Franklin Institute and an Associate Editor for Journal of Process Control.