Xiaolong Lu graduated with a Ph.D. degree from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2014. He is an associate professor/doctoral supervisor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is currently deputy director of the Institute of Precision Drive and Control, and assistant to the dean of the Graduate School, a visiting scholar at the University of California San Diego, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany. He is a permanent scientific researcher at the State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Structural Mechanics and Control, a member of the Micro-Nano Manufacturing Branch of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, a director of the Vibration Utilization Engineering Professional Committee of the Chinese Vibration Engineering Society, and a member of the editorial board of “Vibration, Testing and Diagnosis”. In terms of scientific research, he has long been committed to the research of a new generation of piezoelectric actuators based on advanced functional materials. The current main research direction is micro-scale intelligent actuation (MIA) technology, which has broad application prospects in the fields of precision manufacturing and intelligent robots.