He has authored and co-authored >40 papers in peer-reviewed journals, with a cumulative impact factor of up to 450. His works have appeared in several high-impact journals, including Science, ACS Nano, Nano Letters, Advanced Functional Materials, Laser & Photonics Reviews, Small, Optica, etc. He has been recognized with National High-Level Young Talents, Hubei Outstanding Youth, Ryan Fellow from the International Institute of Nanotechnology, SPIE Optics+Photonics Education Award, IEEE Photonics Society Conference Award, etc.

Professor Xiaodong Zhang has been a Professor since 2011, and now is a deputy director, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems with school of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China. He was a Visiting Scholar in Department of Mechanical and Medical Engineering, University of Bradford, UK, about three months from 2001 to 2002. He was a Researcher in School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, about two years from 2003 to 2005. He was a visiting professor in the Lab on Intelligent robotics, Michigan State University, USA, about one month in November, 2010, and in the Lab on the Control and Intelligent Systems Engineering, University of Hull, UK, about 3 weeks in October, 2011, and in School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, about 2 weeks in July, 2017, and in the Lab on Mechatronics and Intelligent robotics, University of Essex, UK, about 6 months from 2019 to 2020, respectively. Furthermore, he was a lecture professor funded by K. C. Wong Education Foundation in Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, about 2 weeks in December, 2018.

Professor Xiaodong Zhang has published more than 140 papers, include 48 papers indexed by SCI & about 100 papers indexed by EI, and won 30 Patents of invention & 10 Design Patents, and served as an Associate Editor of Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology & Editor of Intelligent Service Robotics. He won best paper award of the 2008 International Conference on Rehabilitation in China, best session paper award of CCCT 2010 in USA, best application paper award of IEEE URAI 2016 in China, outstanding paper award of IEEE URAI 2017 in Korea, finalist best paper award of IEEE CYBER 2019 in China, respectively. He served the IEEE NEMS 2015 as the local arrangement chair, the IEEE URAI 2016 & URAI 2017 as a program co-chair, and the IEEE CYBER 2020 & CIVEMSA2024 as the General Chair. His recent research interests are Robotics and Intelligent System, Bio-mechatronics technology, EEG/EMG signal processing and its application on robotics, intelligent measurement and control technology, etc.

Zhengji Xu is an Associate Professor in Sun Yat-sen University, China. He received B.Eng. degree and Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2010 and 2016, respectively. He worked as a scientist in Institute of Microelectronics, ASTAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), Singapore from Nov 2017 to Mar 2020. His research interests include flat optics, near field optics, nanofabrication and nanophotonics integration. He had authored more than 60 papers in the peer reviewed journals and international conferences.