Affiliation: Tongji University
Email: zjli@ieee.org
Zhijun Li (Fellow, IEEE) is currently a Chair Professor of Tongji University, Shanghai, China, where he has been the Dean of the School of School of Mechanical Engineering since 2024. He received the Ph.D. degree in mechatronics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2002. From 2003 to 2006, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, and the National University of Singapore, Singapore. He has published over 400 papers, where the prestigious contributions were wearable robotics and bio-mechatronics systems. He has received the Distinguished Lecturer (RAS), the Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher (2019-2022), the 2018 National Ten-thousand Talents Program in China, and the 2016 National Distinguished Young Scholar (NSFC). He is an IEEE Fellow and AAIA Fellow. He is a Member of Board of Governors, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (2023-2025). Since 2016, he has been the Co-Chairs of IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Bio-mechatronics and Bio-robotics Systems (B^2S), and IEEE-RAS Technical Committee on Neuro-Robotics Systems. He has served as Senior Editors of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering and Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, and Associate Editors of several IEEE Transactions including TRO, TFS, TNNLS, TASE, TMech, TCyber, TCDS, TSMCS, etc..