Zhuming Bi (Senior Member, IEEE) received his Ph.D. degree from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 1994 and a second Ph.D. degree from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, in 2002. He has international work experience with the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, from 1994 to 1998, the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 1997, the National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, from 2003 to 2007, the Northern Ireland Technology Centre (NITC), Belfast, U.K., in 2008, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, in 2016. He is currently a Professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN, USA. His current research interests include robotics, mechatronics, Internet of Things (IoT), digital manufacturing, automatic robotic processing, and enterprise information systems.