Junkai Yi was born in Hunan Province, China. He graduated with a BSc from the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) in June 1989, majoring in Optic Engineering. He then studied Mechatronics at the BIT. He received his doctorate (Mechatronics) at the BIT in 1998 after studying for 5 years in the group of Prof. Kejie Li, Laboratory of Robotics. He then worked at Tsinghua University for three years. In 2001, Junkai Yi came to the National University of Singapore as a postdoctoral fellow. Now, he is working as a professor at Beijing Information and Science Technology University. His interests include Artificial Intelligence and Dynamic Navigation.