Bin Zi is currently the Dean and Professor of School of Mechano-Electronic Engineering in Xidian University, 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 and presided over more than 20 research projects including the NSFC Key Program and National Key R&D Program of China on Intelligent Robots. He has published four monographs, more than 100 papers and more than 100 authorized invention patents. He is the associate editor of ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 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.