Associate Professor Chen received his bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and his master's and Ph.D. in Robotics from McGill University. He was a Postdoc Fellow at the University of Toronto. He joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Monash University as a Lecturer in 2007, and established the Laboratory of Motion Generation and Analysis (LMGA) at Monash University. The project of the Monash Apple Retrieving System (MARS) led by him received the 2023 Excellence Award of Project of the Year by Engineers Australia Victoria.