At the invitation of the School of Information Science & Engineering, Shi Yang, a tenured professor at the University of Victoria, Canada, paid a visit to ECUST and gave a lecture entitled “Model Predictive Control (MPC) for Cyber-Physical Systems: Some Results and Applications” on April 13th,2017. The report, which was presided by Professor Du Wenli, Dean of the School of Information Science and Engineering, attracted the great attention of the present students and teachers with Professor Shi Yang’s in-depth elaboration.