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Chao Ma Editor & Author

Hong Qiao received the B.Eng. degree in hydraulics and control and the M.Eng. degree in robotics from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, the M.Phil. degree in robotics control from the Industrial Control Center, University of Strathclyde, Strathclyde, U.K. and the Ph.D. degree in robotics and artificial intelligence from De Montfort University, Leicester, U.K. in 1995. She is currently a '100-Talents Project' Professor with the State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Her current research interests include pattern recognition, machine learning, bio-inspired intelligent robot, brain-like intelligence, robotics and intelligent agents.
Prof. Qiao is currently a member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), the Long Range Planning Committee, the Early Career Award Nomination Committee, Most Active Technical Committee Award Nomination Committee, and Industrial Activities Board for RAS. She received Second Prize of 2014 National Natural Science Awards, First Prize of 2012 Beijing Science and Technology Award (for Fundamental Research) and Second Prize of 2015 Beijing Science and Technology Award (for Technology Inventions). She is on the Editorial Boards of five IEEE Transactions and the Editor-in-Chief of journal Assembly Automation (SCI indexed).
Chao Ma received the B.S. degree in automation from Central South University, Changsha, China, in 2007, the M.S. degree and the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in2010 and 2015. Currently he is an assistant professor at the School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, P.R. China. His current research interests include intelligent robot systems, intelligent agents and robot control.
Rui Li received the B.Eng degree in automation engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 2013. Currently he is a PhD candidate in intelligent robot with (1) the State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA), Beijing, China and (2) University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing, China. His current research interests include intelligent robot system, high-precision assembly, compliant manipulation for robotic systems.