Prof. Shengzhi Du received a Ph.D. degree from Nankai University in 2005. He was appointed as a permanent Professor with the Department of Electrical and Mining Engineering, South Africa University. Since 2014, he has been a permanent Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a Program Leader with the Department of Electrical Engineering. Prof. Du is currently a permanent full Professor at the Tshwane University of Technology and the group leader of Mechatronics in the Faculty of  Engineering and the Built Environment. His research interests include intelligent human-machine systems, computer vision, process control, image analysis and understanding, and brain-computer interfaces.