Dr. Jing Ren is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Ontario Tech University. She graduated with a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Shandong University, China in 1993. She then received her MSc and PhD in  Electrical Engineering from University of Western Ontario in 2003 and 2005. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Robarts Research Institute from 2005-2006. She obtained her MBA from Schulich Business School, York University in 2018. Her research interests include haptics and virtual reality, robotics and control, image processing and soft computing.