Yuan Ren (M’15) was born in Sichuan, China, in 1982. He received a Ph.D. degree in instrument science and technology from Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 2012. From 2016 to 2017, he was a Visiting Scholar at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA and was working with co-advisor Prof. E. H. Dowell. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Aerospace Engineering University, Beijing, China. He has authored or coauthored more than 60 papers as a corresponding author and published one monograph. He has been granted more than 30 Chinese invention patents as the first or the second inventor. His current research interests include spacecraft guidance, navigation and control technologies, and novel quantum sensing and control technology.