Xiongkui He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in agricultural and mechanical engineering from China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, in 1989 and 1995, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in agricultural engineering from the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany, in 2000. He is currently a Professor with the College of Science, China Agricultural University. His research interests include agricultural unmanned systems, intelligent plant protection equipment, and intelligent agricultural technologies. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed international journal articles and conference papers. He serves as the Dean in the college of Agricultural Unmanned System and the Director of the Pesticide Application Technology Research Center at China Agricultural University, a member of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee TC 23/SC 6 for Plant Protection Machinery and Application Technology, and as an editorial board member for several scientific journals.