Tao Liu received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, China, in 2001, his M.Eng. degree in mechanical engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, in 2003, and his Ph.D. degree in engineering from the Kochi University of Technology, Kochi, Japan, in 2006. He was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Intelligent Mechanical Systems Engineering, Kochi University of Technology, from 2009 to 2013. He is currently a Professor with the State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power Transmission and Control, School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China. He also holds one Japanese patent in wearable sensors for gait analysis, which was commercialized. His current research interests include wearable sensor systems, rehabilitation robots, biomechanics, and human motion analysis. He was a recipient of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Encouragement Prize in 2010. In 2013, he joined the Chinese Recruitment Program of Global Youth Experts.