Dr. Ping Zhao is currently a full Professor in Hefei University of Technology. She got her B.S. in 2009 from USTC, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering in Stony Brook University in 2013. Ping Zhao’s research areas include Computational kinematics, Kinematic design of one/few-DOF rehabilitation devices and robotics, Planar/Spatial motion synthesis. She has received several grants from Natural Science Foundation of China, National Key R&D Projects and Provincial Natural Science Foundation. She has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers, over 30 Chinese patents as well as 3 US patents. She serves as a frequent reviewer for several distinguished journals such as Mechanism and Machine Theory, ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, Journal of Engineering and Science in Medical Diagnose and Therapy, as well as many ASME conferences. Dr. Zhao has also served as proposal reviewer for Natural Science Foundation of China. She is Associate Editor of ASME Journal of Engineering and Science in Medical Diagnose and Therapy, and served in the organization committee of ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE2018~2023), IEEE International Conference of Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation (ICMRA2018~2019), International Conference on Automation, Control and Robotics Engineering (CACRE2022~2023). She has won the best paper award in 2012 ASME Mechanism and Robotics Conference.