Weiqiu Zhu is a professor of mechanics in Zhejiang University, China and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He worked in the field of random vibration and stochastic dynamics for over four decades and conducted long-term cooperative study with Prof. S.H. Crandall at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Prof. Y.K. Lin at Florida Atlantic University, the USA. During past three decades, he and his research team developed the nonlinear stochastic dynamics and control in Hamiltonian formulation. He published 260 papers on international peer review journals and three monographs. He was the chairman of the fifth International Conference on Stochastic Structural Dynamics in 2003 and IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics and Control in 2010, and was Editor-in-Chief of proceedings of the conferences. He was editorial board member of seven international journals. He won the second prize of China National Natural Science Awards and is one of the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2023 (career-long impact).