Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi (Senior Member,IEEE) received a BSc Degree in mechanical engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1987, an MSc degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Toronto, ON, Canada, in 1990, and a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 1995. Since 1997, he has been with the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada, where he is currently a Professor of mechanical and industrial engineering and the Director of the Robotics, Mechatronics, and Automation Laboratory (RMAL). He was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor with the Center for Intelligent Machines and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, from 1995 to 1997. He has been a Visiting Professor with KAIST, Daeijeon, Korea; IRISA-INRIA, Rennes, France, and TUM, Munich, Germany. His research interests include optomechatronic systems with a focus on robot control. Dr. Janabi-Sharifi has been an organizer and co-organizer of several international conferences on optomechatronic systems control. He was the Technical Editor of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics and the Associate Editor of several journals, including the International Journal of Optomechatronics and the Journal of Robotics. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers, Engineering Institute of Canada, and Canadian Academy of Engineering.