Prof. Tao Zhang obtained his Bachelor’s degree in automatic control, Master’s degree in automatic instrumentation and equipment, and PhD in detection technology and automatic equipment from Tsinghua University in 1993, 1995, and 1999, respectively. He then earned a PhD in system control from the Graduate School of Engineering, Saga University, Japan in 2002. From 2003 to 2006, he worked as a Researcher at the National Institute of Informatics, Japan. Since 2006, he has been serving as an Associate Professor, Professor, and Doctoral Supervisor within the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University. He is currently the Head of the Department of Automation and the Vice Dean of the School of Information Science and Technology. His research interests include intelligent control theory and methods, robot navigation and control, and intelligent system modeling and simulation.