• Intelligent control
• Computational intelligence
• Rehabilitation and assistive robotics for the elderly with cognitive and motor impairments
• Medical robots for vascular interventions and surgery

•  03/1997, Ph.D., School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.

•  12/1993, Master's Degree, School of Automation, Yanshan University, China.

•  07/1991, Bachelor's Degree, School of Automation, Yanshan University, China.

• 06/2004 - present, Professor, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China.

• 10/2012 - present, Chair Professor, School of Artificial Intelligence, University of CAS, Beijing, China.

• 08/2020 - present, Guest Professor, Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), Macau, China.

• 09/2018 - present, Guest Professor, Beijing University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China.

• 12/2016 - 12/2024, Distinguished Adjunct Professor, Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Shanghai Institute of Neuroscience, CAS, Shanghai, China.

• 09/2003 - 10/2004, Visiting Professor, College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

•  07/1999 - 05/2004, Associate Professor, Institute of Automation, CAS.

•  05/2000 - 01/2001, Research Assistant, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.

•  05/1997 - 07/1999, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

•  05/2023, Dennis Gabor Award, International Neural Network Society (INNS).

•  10/2021, Wu Wen-tsun AI Award (First Class), Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI).

•  09/2021, Technological Invention Award (First Class), Chinese Association of Automation (CAA).

•  03/2021, Gold Medal, International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva.

•  11/2020, elected as Fellow of CAA (Chinese Association of Automation).

•  11/2018, elected as Fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).

•  05/2015, “Excellence Award for Scientific Research” by Institute of Solid Mechanics, Romanian Academy.

•  11/2017, Outstanding Achievement Award, APNNS.

•  10/2025, Outstanding Postgraduate Supervisor Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

•  09/2019, Outstanding Postgraduate Supervisor Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

•  03/2010, Yang Jiachi Science and Technology Award (Second Class), Chinese Association of Automation (CAA).

•  06/2023, “Best Paper Award”, Neural Networks (Elsevier), for "Cross-modality paired-images generation and augmentation for RGB-infrared person re-identification".

•  07/2014, “Outstanding Paper Award”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, for "Recurrent neural network for nonsmooth convex optimization problems with application to identification of genetic regulatory networks".

•  08/2025, “Best Conference Paper Award”, International Conference on Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics (ICBIR), 2025, Zhangye, for "CNN-transformer based temporal-spatial fusion network for EEG-fNIRS hybrid decoding".

•  12/2023, “Best Paper Award”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (IEEE ROBIO), Thailand, 2023, for An original design of robotic-assisted flexible nasotracheal intubation system".

•  07/2022, “Best Paper Award”, IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (IEEE RCAR), 2022, for "Single camera based gait analysis methods with scaled and image coordinate key-points".

   

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[16] Zhou, X., Xie, X., Liu, S., Feng, Z., Hou, Z.G., (2022) “Surgical skill assessment based on dynamic warping manipulations”, IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 4(1), pp.50-61.

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[1] PCT/US Patent: “Multi-posture lower limb rehabilitation robot”, No.: US10722416B2, Date of Patent: 2020.07.28.

[2] PCT/US Patent: “Method and system for predicting outcomes based on spatio/spectro-temporal data”, No.: US10579925B2, Date of Patent: 2020.3.3.

[3] PCT/US Patent: “Upper limb rehabilitation robot system”, No.: US10596056B2, Date of Patent: 2020.03.24.

[4] PCT/US Patent: “System of functional electrical stimulation”, No.: US8983621B2, Date of Patent: 2015.03.17.

[5] PCT/US Patent: “Catheter manipulating device for vascular intervention”, No.: US10252029B2, Date: 2019.4.09

[6] CN Patent: “A BCI based attention-regulation system”, No.: CN107397648B, Date of Patent: 2019.07.12.

[7] CN Patent: “A hand rehabilitation device and system”, No.: CN107397648B, Date of Patent: 2019.07.12.

[8] CN Patent: “An active training control method for rehabilitation robots”, No.: CN105771182B, Date: 2018.06.29.

[9] CN Patent: “Rehabilitation training method based on impedance control”, No.: CN104644378B, Date: 2017.06.13.

[10] CN Patent: “Fingers and wrist rehabilitation training device”, No.:CN105796285B, Patent Date: 2017.11.21.

[11] CN Patent: “sEMG-based active training control for rehabilitation robots”, No.:CN104492033B, Date: 2017.7.21.

•  Vice-President, Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), 2018 - present.

•  Vice-President, Asia Pacific Neural Network Society (APNNS), 2020 - 2025.

•  BOG member, International Neural Network Society (INNS), 2017 - 2022, 2025 - present.

•  Awards Committee Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), 2024 - 2026.

•  Fellow Nomination and Appointment Committee Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), 2023.

•  Chair, Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning Technical Committee (ADPRLTC), IEEE CIS, 2017.1 - 2018.12.

•  Chair, Neural Networks Technical Committee (NNTC), IEEE CIS, 2015.1 - 2016.12.

•  General Chair, 34th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), Bangkok, Thailand, November 2027.

•  General Chair, International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Nature-Inspired Computing (MIND), Chongqing, China, November 13-15, 2026.

•  NOC Chair, 16th IFAC Symposium on Analysis, Design and Evaluation of Human-Machine Systems (IFAC HMS), Beijing, 2025.

•  Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (IEEE ROBIO), Chengdu, December 3-7, 2025.

•  Technical Chair, IEEE Int. Joint Conf. on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Yokohama, Japan, June 30-July 5, 2024.

•  Tutorial Chair, IEEE Int. Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Gold Coast, Australia, June 18-23, 2023.

•  PC Chair, IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Shenzhen, China, July 18-22, 2021.

•  Chair, IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (IEEE ADPRL), 1-4 December, 2020, Canberra, Australia.

• PC Chair, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Xiamen, December 6-9, 2019.

•  PC Chair, International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI), Xiamen, March 29-31, 2018.

•  Organization Chair, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), Beijing, China, July 6-11, 2014.

•  Associate Editor-in-Chief, Intelligent Sports and Health (ScienceDirect), 2024-present.

•  Associate Editor, Neural Networks (Elsevier), 2013-present.

•  Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2014-present.

•  Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2024-present.

•  Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2008-2011, 2024-present.

•  Associate Editor, Evolving Systems (Springer), 2008-2011, 2023-present.

•  Grant Evaluator/Panel Evaluator for National Science Foundation of China, Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Research Grant Council.

•  PhD external examiner/External reviewer for professional promotion for over 20 universities in numerous countries/regions.

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Jingyao Chen, 01/2026-present, Project Title: Research on Quantitative Motion Analysis for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation.

• Shengda Liu, 09/2021-05/2025, Project Title: Optimization of Physical Human-Robot Interaction via Coupled Updates of an Optimal Control Model. Assistant Professor, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

• Peiliang Wu, 09/2017-09/2020, Project Title: Cognition of Everyday Tool Affordances for Domestic Service Robots. Professor and Deputy Dean, School of AI, Yanshan University.

• Tairen Sun, 07/2017-07/2019, Project Title: Rehabilitation Robotics Research. Professor, School of Health Science and Engineering, Professor, Shanghai University of Science and Technology.

• Zhongpu Xia, 07/2017-07/2019, Project Title: Research on Autonomous Driving for Unmanned Vehicles. Research Scientist, Baidu, Inc.

• Dongxu Zhang, 07/2015-07/2017, Project Title: Rehabilitation Robotics Research. Associate Professor, Xiamen University.

• Lina Tong, 05/2011-05/2013, Project Title: Multi-Channel Surface EMG-Based Methods for Human Motion Intention Recognition. Associate Professor, China University of Mining and Technology.

• Qingling Li, 07/2009-07/2011, Project Title: Application of Surface EMG Signals in Rehabilitation Robotic Systems. Associate Professor, China University of Mining and Technology.

Current Graduate Students

• Patrik Molnar (Danish), Master student, 09/2024-06/2027, Project title: Early Diagnosis of Neural Degenerative Diseases for the Elderly via Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI).

• Dexing Huang, Ph.D. candidate, 09/2024-present, selected for Ph.D. AI Pilot Program of University of CAS.

• Tianyu Xiang, Ph.D. candidate, 09/2023-present, recipient of "2025 IEEE CIS Graduate Student Research Grant".

• Xiyao Ma, Ph.D. candidate, 09/2022-present, recipient of the 2024 “Pandeng Second-Class Scholarship”.

Graduated Students

•  Meng Song, Ph.D., 09/2021-06/2025, Dissertation title: Intraoperative Imaging Perception-Based Decision Support Methods for Endovascular Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm.

•  Chayut Bunterngchit, Ph.D., 09/2020-06/2025; Dissertation title: Toward Early Detection of Neurological Disorders: Deep Learning-Based Multimodal Integration and Classification of Hybrid EEG-fNIRS Data.

•  Wachirayongyot Thimabut, Ph.D., 09/2018–04/2025, Dissertation title: A Novel Foot Orthosis for Tactile Stimulation in Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathic Patients.

•  Meijiang Gui, Ph.D., 09/2019–06/2024, Dissertation title: Multi-dimensional Information Representation of Bionic Tactile Perception System.

•  Sheng Chen, Ph.D., 09/2016–06/2024, Dissertation title: Intelligent Early Diagnosis of Cognitive Impairment Based on Multimodal Feature Selection.

•  Chenchen Fan, Ph.D., 09/2018–06/2023, Dissertation title: Early Diagnosis of Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults via Multimodal Data Fusion.

•  Yanjie Zhou, Ph.D., 09/2017–06/2022, Dissertation title: Vision Perception Methods for Autonomous Navigation of Vascular Interventional Surgical Robots.

•  Zhenliang Ni, Ph.D., 09/2017–06/2022, Dissertation title: Key-Region Segmentation Methods for Endoscopic Images in Minimally Invasive Surgery.

•  Jiaxing Wang, Ph.D., 09/2016–06/2021, Dissertation title: Engagement Assessment and Enhancement Methods for Neurorehabilitation.

•  Chen Wang, Ph.D., 09/2016–06/2021, Dissertation title: Control Strategies and Motor Function Evaluation Methods for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation Robots.

•  Guan-an Wang, Ph.D., 09/2015–06/2021, Dissertation title: Feature Representation for Person Re-Identification in Open Scenarios.

•  Shixin Ren, Ph.D., 09/2015–06/2021, Dissertation title: Motion Intention Recognition and Active Training Methods for Lower-Limb Rehabilitation Robots.

•  Xu Liang, Ph.D., 09/2013–12/2020, Dissertation title: Active-Compliant Human–Robot Interaction Control and Training Strategies for Lower-Limb Rehabilitation Robots.

•  Weiguo Shi, M.S., 09/2017–06/2020, Thesis: sEMG-Based Intention Recognition and Safe Human–Robot Interaction for Lower-Limb Exoskeletons.

•  Lincong Luo, Ph.D., 09/2014–06/2019, Dissertation title: System Design and Control Methods for an Exoskeleton-Type Upper-Limb Rehabilitation Robot.

•  Xiaohu Zhou, Ph.D., 09/2014–06/2019, Dissertation title: Intelligent Analysis and Applications of Complex Natural Manipulation Behaviors in Coronary Interventional Procedures.

•  Yudong Wu, M.S., 09/2016–06/2019, Thesis: Guidewire Tracking and Contrast-Agent Detection Methods for Navigation in Interventional Surgical Robots.

•  Chengkun Cui, Ph.D., 09/2014–06/2018, Dissertation title: Intelligent Analysis of Lower-Limb Motion Data for Hemiplegic Rehabilitation: Methods and Experiments.

•  Jianlong Hao, Ph.D., 09/2012–06/2017, Dissertation title: Haptic Interaction Methods for Surgical Simulators.

•  Long Peng, Ph.D., 09/2011–12/2016, Dissertation title: Surface EMG-Based Interactive Control and Evaluation for Rehabilitation Robots.

•  Zhanjie Gao, M.S., 09/2013–06/2016, Thesis: Modeling of Guidewires and Catheters for Virtual Vascular Interventional Surgery Under Large Flexible Deformations.

•  Zhenqiu Feng, Ph.D., 09/2010–06/2016, Dissertation title: Design and Control of a Master–Slave Minimally Invasive Vascular Interventional Surgical System.

•  Fan Yang, Ph.D., 09/2008–12/2014, Dissertation title: Key Technologies for Constructing Anatomical Environments in Coronary Intervention Simulation.

•  Jin Hu, Ph.D., 09/2009–12/2014, Dissertation title: Motion Training Strategies and Interactive Control for a Sit-to-Stand Lower-Limb Exoskeleton Rehabilitation Robot.

•  Shaohua Mi, Ph.D., 09/2010–12/2014, Dissertation title: Virtual Simulation of Guidewires and Catheters for Vascular Interventional Surgery.

• Weiqun Wang, Ph.D., 09/2011–06/2014, Dissertation title: Mechanism Design and Human–Robot System Dynamics Identification for a Sit-to-Stand Lower-Limb Rehabilitation Robot.

• Yixiong Chen, Ph.D., 09/2008–06/2014, Dissertation title: Design and Control of Lower-Limb Rehabilitation Robots Based on Functional Electrical Stimulation and Biosignal Feedback.

•  Feng Zhang, Ph.D., 09/2007–06/2012, Dissertation title: Active–Passive Training Control Methods for Sit-to-Stand Lower-Limb Rehabilitation Robots.

•  Cheng Ji, Ph.D., 09/2006–12/2011, Dissertation title: Localization and Navigation of Minimally Invasive Vascular Interventional Surgical Robots.

•  Xiaoliang Xie, Ph.D., 09/2006–06/2011, Dissertation title: Design and Human–Robot Interactive Control of Minimally Invasive Vascular Interventional Surgical Robots.

•  Pengfeng Li, Ph.D., 09/2005–06/2010, Dissertation title: Control Systems of Rehabilitation Robots for Paraplegic Patients Based on Human Musculoskeletal Models.

•  Long Cheng, Ph.D., 09/2004–06/2009, Dissertation title: Consensus Control of Multi-Agent Systems with Complex Dynamics and Applications.

•  Tao Yang, Ph.D., 09/2005–06/2009, Dissertation title: Robust Active Vibration Isolation Control Based on a Stewart Parallel Mechanism.

•  Xiao Liang, Ph.D., 09/2003–06/2008, Dissertation title: DSP-Based Embedded Vision System Development and Object Tracking Methods.

•  Siyao Fu, Ph.D., 09/2003–06/2008, Dissertation title: Key Navigation Problems for Vision-Based Overhead Transmission Line Inspection Robots.

•  Anmin Zou, Ph.D., 09/2002–06/2007, Dissertation title: Adaptive Fuzzy Control of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots with Uncertainties.