Xiaoping Qian is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his MS and BS from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, all in mechanical engineering. He is an elected ASME Fellow. He has served as an associate editor for ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering and ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering as well as in the editorial board of the journal Computer-Aided Design.