Yunlai Shi received a Bachelor’s degree in Heat Treatment from Shandong University of Technology, China, in 1999. From 1999 to 2004, he was an engineer in Yankuang Group Ltd. Then, he received a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Design and Theory from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), China, in 2011. From 2017 to 2018, he worked as a visiting professor of the Nano Robotics Laboratory with Polytechnique Montréal. He is currently an associate professor at NUAA. His research interests are mainly piezoelectric actuation technology and its applications. He has received several awards for the research of piezoelectric motors in China.