Zhikai_Yao received the Ph.D. degree in mechatronic control from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, in 2021. From September 2019 to September 2021, he was an Exchange Student with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, AZ, USA. He is an Associate Professor with the School of Automation, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China. His current research interests include hypersonic vehicles, hydraulic systems, robotics, adaptive optimal control, motion planning, human-robot interaction, and reinforcement learning.