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As Editor-in-Chief, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 Travel Award sponsored by Systems. The award was granted to Mr. Peng Xu, a Ph.D. student of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He will be supported with 800 Swiss Francs to cover travel expenses of the 29th Annual INCOSE International Symposium, which will be held in Orlando, FL, USA.
Mr. Peng Xu’s current research focuses on intelligent manufacturing, production automation, mathematical modeling, and data analytics. He currently is a graduate research assistant in the Systems Engineering and Design Lab, VT.
Systems is proud to support this young researcher working in the field of systems science, systems engineering, and systems-related fields and wishes him the greatest success in his career. We would also like to express our gratitude to all who submitted applications—thank you for letting us get to know you and your work. We hope all of you continue to pay attention to Systems in the future.
I would like to congratulate the winner and thank the selection committee for their excellent work in selecting the winner from such a large number of outstanding candidate profiles.