Dr. Xinjie WANG is an Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology. He received his M.E. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Design and Theory from the Harbin Institute of Technology in July 2006 and March 2011, respectively. From January 2018 to January 2019, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. His research fields are smart materials and structures, micro-driving and control based on photostrictive materials, and active control of structures laminated with piezoelectric materials. He has presided over three projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, two projects from the Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory, and one project from the China Postdoctoral Foundation. He has published more than 40 SCI/EI papers as the first author or corresponding author. He is the reviewer of Smart Materials and Structures, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Shock and Vibration, and the Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a senior Member of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, and a session chair for the Control of Smart Structures and Structronic Systems, ASME 2016 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2016 IMECE).