Le Gao (S’08 - M’11) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Hunan University, Changsha, China, in 2005 and 2011, respectively. He was a Visiting Student and a Postdoctor with The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, from 2007 to 2012, respectively. He joined Sany Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd. Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, in 2021, where he is currently the founding Director of the newly established Intelligent Research Institute and focus on develop and application for autonomous excavator and wheel loader. His research interests include data-driven based model predictive control for high-performance motion/servo control, high-precision positioning and mapping, multimodal large language model based end-to-end autonomous excavator. He has received several Government Prestigious Awards, including Jiangsu Shuangchuang Leading Talent in 2023, Suzhou Shuangchuang Leading Talent in 2022, Weifang Yuandu Leading Talent in 2018. He has served as an boarding member of Application Committee of CAA(Chinese Association of Automation) from 2023.