Qinyuan Ren is a robotics scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, in Singapore, and professor at the College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, in China. He is a principal investigator (PI) of several national Mega-fund projects and serves as the editorial member for two international journals. He is a Senior IEEE Member now and his research interests include nonlinear systems, bioinspired and biomimetic robotics, motion control and artificial nervous system.