Dr. Zhuang Yan obtained the Bachelor and Master's Degree in Control Theory and Engineering from Northeastern University, China, in 1997 and 2000 respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in Control Theory and Engineering from the Dalian University of Technology, China in 2004. He joined Dalian University of Technology in 2005 as a Lecturer and became an Associate Professor in 2007. Currently, he is a Full Professor and Vice Dean of School of Control Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, leading the Intelligent Robotics Lab (DUT Robotics Lab). His research interests include mobile robot autonomous environment perception, SLAM, navigation, scene understanding and machine learning in robotics. He is an Associate Editor/Guest Editor for several international journals and has been a chair or committee member for many international conferences such as IEEE ICSSE, IEEE CYBER, IEEE ROBIO and WCICA.
