Prof. Dr. Yisheng Guan

Yisheng Guan received a Master's degree from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 1990, and a Ph.D. degree from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA), Beijing, China, in 1998, both in mechanical engineering. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, from 1998 to 2000, and a JSPS research fellow in the Intelligent Systems Institute, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan, from 2003 to 2006. In 2007, he joined the School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China as a professor. Since 2013, he has been the director of the Biomimetic and Intelligent Robotics Lab (BIRL) and a Professor at the School of Electro-Mechanical Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT), Guangzhou, China. His research interests include biomimetic robotics, intelligent robots, modular robots, and humanoids. Prof. Guan has chaired several IEEE international conferences (PC of ROBIO 2018, Co-PC of ROBIO 2012 and ICIA 2009), has been a PC member of 60+ conferences (AE of IROS since 2012, ROBIO, AIM, ICMA, ICIA, Humanoids, and so on), and a reviewer of about 40 international journals.