Xiuli Zhang, Doctor of Engineering, has been working on bionic and intelligent robots, robot mechanisms, and control. She is currently an associate professor at the School of Mechanical and Electronic Control Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, and a member of IEEE, IEEE RAS (Robotics and Automation Society), and the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering. The Bionic Intelligent Robotics Team at Beijing Jiaotong University has been focusing on animal locomotion mechanisms and legged robots for over 20 years, since 2000. She has presided over or participated in the National 863 Project 'Research on Bionic Robot Motion Control System Based on Bio-Neural Networks', the National Natural Science Youth Fund Project 'Adaptive Motion Control of Robots Based on Biosensing-Motion Fusion Mechanism', and the National 863 Theme Project 'High Performance Quadrupedal Bionic Robot', as well as several projects funded by the JW Science and Technology Commission and the Ministry of Education's Central Universities and Colleges. She is also the author of several JW Science and Technology Commission and Ministry of Education Central Universities Fund projects. She has published more than 30 high-profile SCI/EI papers and has been involved in the invention of over 20 patents in related fields.