Jianping Hu is a professor at the Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Hi-Tech Research for Intelligent Agricultural Equipment, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China. He graduated from Jiangsu University (formerly Jiangsu Institute of Technology) in 1986 and received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Design and Theory from Jiangsu University in 2004. He is a senior member of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering and a member of the Tillage Machinery Branch of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Machinery. He won the second prize in the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2009. His research interests are digital design and intelligent control technology of agricultural machinery, as well as key technologies of planting machinery.