Biography: ZhiDong Wang received his Bachelor of Engineering from Beihang University, China in 1987, and received his Master degree and Ph.D in Engineering from Tohoku University, Japan in 1992 and 1995 respectively. From 1995, he joined the Advanced Robotics Laboratory and later the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Tohoku University as an assistant and associate professor respectively. From 2006, he joined the Department of Advanced Robotics, Chiba Institute of Technology, and is currently professor and head of Biomimetic Systems Lab. at CIT, Japan. 

Dr. Wang has published numerous journal and conference articles. He and his colleague received several best paper awards including the 2014 ROBIO Best Paper in Robotics Award, the JSME Award for best paper in 2005, and 2005 IROS Cyberbotics Award for Best Paper in Experimental Robotics, 2019 ROBIO Best Paper in Robotics Award. He served several academic meetings and was General Chair of ROBIO2011, Cyber2014, and ROBIO2021, a Program Chair of ROBIO2007, Nanomed2016, and Program Co-Chair of ICRA2011, IROS2013. He will serve as General Chair of ICRA2024 at Yokohama, Japan. From 2018 to 2021, he serves as the VP of IEEE RAS EPSB board. His main research interests are human-robot interaction, distributed robotics, nano-manipulation, and the application of cooperative robotics.