Daoxiong Gong received his Master’s degree from Shenyang Ligong University (SYLU), China, in 1998, and his Ph.D. in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from Beijing University of Technology (BJUT), China, in 2004. From 2012 to 2013, he was a Visiting Scholar at Michigan State University, Lansing, USA. He is currently a Professor at the School of Information Science and Technology, BJUT. His research interests include artificial intelligence, intelligent robotics, teleoperation, pneumatic artificial muscles, and evolutionary computation. He has published over 50 papers and holds more than 10 authorized China invention patents, of which 7 have been successfully transferred to enterprises. He is the recipient of the Wu Wenjun AI Invention Award (Second Prize) from the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) in 2020 and the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award (Second Prize) from the China Association of Inventions (CAI) in 2022.