lzj Zhijun Li, Ph.D., Chair Professor, IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow
Dean,
School of Mechanical Engineering,
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)
  • Chair Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, China (2023-present)
  • Director of Intelligent Robotics Lab, Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Anhui (2020-present)
  • 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, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
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
  • Founder Co-Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Bio-mechatronics and Bio-robotics Systems, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society
  • Founder Co-Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Neuro-Robotics Systems, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
  • Founding Co-Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Flexible Electronic Systems, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society
  • Vice Chair, IEEE SMC Beijing Capital Region Chapter
  • 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

General Chair/Technical Program Committee

  • 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
  • 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, 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, Dec 2023, Volume: 53, Issue: 12, Page(s): 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 Trans. Robotics, OCTOBER 2022, Volume: 38, Issue: 5, Page(s): 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 Trans. Mechatronics, OCTOBER 2021, Volume: 26, Issue: 5, Page(s): 2700-2711.
  • H Xia, Y Zhang, N Rajabi, F Taleb, Q Yang, D Kragic, Z Li, Shaping high-performance wearable robots for human motor and sensory reconstruction and enhancement, Nature Communications 15(1), 1-12.