Zhijun Li, Ph.D., Chair Professor, IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow Dean, School of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Intelligent Autonomous Robotics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. E-mail: zjli@ieee.org

Education

Ph.D. in Mechatronics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P. R. China (1999 – 2002) M. Eng. in Mechanical Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, P. R. China (1996 – 1999) B. Eng. in Mechanical Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, P. R. China (1992 – 1996)

Employment

Dean, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, China (2023-present) Dean, Institute of Intelligent Autonomous Robotics, Tongji University, China (2025-present) Director, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Wearable Robotics and Human-Machine Interaction, Shanghai, China (2024-present) Chair Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, China (2023-present) Director of Intelligent Robotics Lab, Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Anhui (2020-2024) Vice Dean, School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China (2019-2023) Director of Advanced Robotics Center, Institute of Advanced Technology, University of Science and Technology of China (2019-2023) Chair Professor, University of Science and Technology of China (2022-2027) Professor, Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China (2017-2023) Professor, College of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology (2011-2017) Visiting Professor, The Faculty Science and Technology, University of Macau (2015) Visiting Professor, Department of Advanced Robotics, Italian Institute of Technology (2015) Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing (2007-2008) Research Fellow, Electronics and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (2005–2006) Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent System, The University of Electro-Communications (2003–2005)

Awards

Outstanding Associate Editor Award	Robotic Intelligence and Automation	2023
Fellow	AAIA (Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association)	2022
Fellow	IEEE	2021
Outstanding Paper Award	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2022
Best Paper Award Finalist	IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics	2020
Norbert Wiener Review Award	IEEE/CAA J. of Autom. Sinica	2019
Highly Cited Researcher	Web of Science Group	2019-2024
Wu Wenjun first prize in Natural Science	Chinese society of artificial intelligence	2019
Distinguished Lecturer	IEEE Robotics and Automation Society	2018
National Ten-thousand Talents Program	China	2017
Distinguished Young Scientist Award	Chinese Automation Association	2017
Toshio Fukuda Best Mechatronics Paper Award	IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics & Mechatronics	2017
Best Associate Editor Award	IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society	2017
National Distinguished Young Scholar	National Natural Science Foundation of China	2016
Best Cognitive Robotics Award	IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics & Mechatronics	2016
Best Paper Award	The 8th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics & Applications	2015
Best Conference Paper Award	IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation	2015
Steve and Rosalind Hsia Best Biomedical Paper Award	The 11th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation	2014
T. J. Tarn Best Student Paper Award	The 11th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation	2014
Best Conference Paper Award	The 2012 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation	2012
New Century Talents Award	Chinese Ministry of Education	2012

Professional Services

Member, Board of Governors, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (2023-2025) Founder Co-Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Bio-mechatronics and Bio-robotics Systems, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (2015-present) Founder Co-Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Neuro-Robotics Systems, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (2017-present) Founding Co-Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Flexible Electronic Systems, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (2024-present) Vice Chair, IEEE SMC Beijing Capital Region Chapter (2021-present) Member, IEEE-CIS Technical Committee on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (2017-2023) Chair, IEEE ICRA 2021 Best Paper Award Panel on Robot Vision

Editorship

Senior Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automation on Science and Engineering (2022-present) Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (2022-present) Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2022-present) Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (2019- present) Associate Editor, Robotic Intelligence and Automation (2021-present) Associate Editor, IET Cognitive Computation and Systems (2018-present) Associate Editor, Control Engineering, Chinese Version (2017-present) Editor, Robot (Chinese phonetic alphabet: Jiqiren) (2019.7-present) Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on System, Man and Cybernetics: Systems (2015-2023) Editor-at-large, Journal Intelligent & Robotic Systems (2009-2022) Technical Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics (2019-2022) Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Development Systems (2017-2022) Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automa on Science and Engineering (2016–2019) Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and Learning Systems (2015-2021) Associate Editor, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (2017-2021) Guest Editor, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2016 Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics: Systems, 2015 Guest Editor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter, 2017 Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions Industrial Informatics, 2017 Guest Editor, Science China: Information Science, 2018, 2019 Guest Edirot, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2019 Guest Editor, Advanced Robotics, 2019 Associate Editor, Journal of Control Theory and Application (2013-2016) Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2020 Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2021 Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2025

General Chair/Technical Program Committee

Steering Committee, 2025 International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics, Portsmouth, UK Associate Editor, 2025 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Atlanta, USA Steering Committee, 2024 International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics, Tokyo, Japan Steering Committee, 2024 International Conference on Flexible Electronics and Systems, Hong Kong, China Associate Editor, 2024 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Yokohama, Japan General Chair, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, Macau, China Associate Editor, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, London, UK Associate Editor, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Philadelphia, USA Program Chair, 2022 Chinese Control Conference, Hefei, China Co-General Chair, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics & Mechatronics, Guilin, China Co-General Chair, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics & Mechatronics, Chongqing, China Program Chair, 2020 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics & Mechatronics, Shenzhen, China Program Chair, 2019 4th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics & Mechatronics, Osaka, Japan Program Chair, 2018 3rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics & Mechatronics, Singapore Program Chair, 2017 2nd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics & Mechatronics, Hefei, China General Chair, 2016 1st IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics & Mechatronics, Macau, China

Monograph

	Advanced Control of Wheeled Inverted Pendulum Systems	Zhijun Li, Chenguang Yang, and Liping Fan	Springer, London, 2012
	Fundamentals in Modeling and Control of Mobile Manipulators	Zhijun Li, Shuzhi Sam Ge	CRC Press, 2013
	Intelligent Networked Teleoperation Control	Zhijun Li, Yuanqing Xia, and Chun‐Yi Su	Springer,July, 2015

Selected Journal papers

Zhijun Li, Ting Zhao, Yingbai Hu, Fei Chen, Chun-Yi Su, Toshi Fukuda, Reinforcement Learning of Manipula on and Grasping using Dynamical Movement Primi ves for a Humanoid-like Mobile Manipulator, IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 23, no.1, 2018, pp. 121 – 131. Zhijun Li, Chenguang Yang, Chun-Yi Su, Jun Deng, and Weidong Zhang, Vision-Based Model Predictive Control for Steering of a Nonholonomic Mobile Robot, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 24, no. 2, 2016, pp. 553-564. Zhijun Li, Chun-Yi Su, Liangyong Wang, Zi ngng Chen, Tianyou Chai, Nonlinear Disturbance Observer Design for a Robotic Exoskeleton Incorporating Fuzzy Approximation, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 62, no. 9, 2015, pp. 5763–5775. Zhijun Li, Chenguang Yang, ChunYi Su, Shuming Deng, Fuchun Sun, Weidong Zhang, Decentralized Fuzzy Control of Mulple Cooperating Robo c Manipulators with Impedance Interaction, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 23, no. 4, 2015, pp. 1044 – 1056. Zhijun Li, Shuzhi Sam Ge, and Sibang Liu, Contact-Force Distributed optimization and Control for Quadruped Robots Using Both Gradient and Adaptive Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, vol. 25, no. 8, 2014, pp. 1460 – 1473. Zhijun Li, Bo Huang, Arash Ajoudani, Chenguang Yang, Chun-Yi Su, Antonio Bicchi, Asymmetric Bimanual Coordinate Control of Dual-Arm Exoskeleton Robots for Human Cooperative Manipulations, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 34, no.1, 2018, pp. 264-271. Zhijun Li, Qinjian Li, Pengbo Huang, Haisheng Xia, and Guoxin Li, Human-in-the-loop Adaptive Control of a Soft Exo-suit with Actuator Dynamics and Ankle Impedance Adaptation, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 53, no. 12, 2023, pp. 7920-7932. Zhijun Li, Xiang Li, Qinjian Li, Hang Su, Zhen Kan, and Wei He, Human-in-the-Loop Control of Soft Exosuits Using Impedance Learning on Different Terrains, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 38, no. 5, 2022, pp. 2979-2993. Zhijun Li, Kuankuan Zhao, Longbin Zhang, Xinyu Wu, Tao Zhang, Qinjian Li, Xiang Li, and Chun-Yi Su，Human-in-the-Loop Control of a Wearable Lower Limb Exoskeleton for Stable Dynamic Walking, IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 26, no. 5, 2021, pp. 2700-2711. Haisheng Xia, Yuchong Zhang, Nona Rajabi, Farzaneh Taleb, Qunting Yang, Danica Kragic, Zhijun Li, Shaping high-performance wearable robots for human motor and sensory reconstruction and enhancement, Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, 2024, pp. 1-12. Junjun Li, Zhijun Li, Fei Chen, Antonio Bicchi, Yu Sun, and Toshio Fukuda, Combined Sensing, Cognition, Learning and Control to Developing Future Neurorobotics Systems: A Survey, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, vol. 11, no. 2, 2019, pp. 148-161.