Dr. Bin Zi is currently the Dean and Full Professor of the School of Mechanical Engineering, and the Director of the Robotics Institute in Hefei University of Technology, China. He received his Ph.D. in Mechatronic Engineering from Xidian University, China, in 2007. He was a visiting scholar with the Chair of Mechanics and Robotics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, from 2011 to 2012, and a visiting professor with the Robotics and Automation Laboratory, Institute of Technology, University of Ontario, Canada, in 2015. Dr. Zi has received the 2019 National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China. He has been invited as the keynote/plenary speaker in several academic symposiums and conferences. He also served on the technical program or organization committees of several ASME and IEEE conferences.