Guest Editorial forSpecial Issue on Human-centered Intelligent Robots:Issues and Challenges

Zhijun Li (M'07-SM'09) received the Ph.D. degree in mechatronics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 2002. From 2003 to 2005, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent systems, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan. From 2005 to 2006, he was a Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Since 2012, he is a Professor in College of Automation Science and Engineering, South China university of Technology, Guangzhou, China.
From 2016, he has been the Co-Chairs of Technical Committee on Biomechatronics and Biorobotics Systems (B2S), IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and Technical Committee on Neuro-Robotics Systems, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. He is serving as an Editor-at-large of Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, and Associate Editors of several IEEE Transactions. He has been the General Chair and Program Chair of 2016 and 2017 IEEE Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics, respectively. Dr. Li's current research interests include service robotics, teleoperation systems, nonlinear control, neural network optimization, etc. (e-mail: zjli@ieee.org)

C. L. Philip Chen (S'88-M'88-SM'94-F'07) received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1985 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1988. Currently, he is the Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau, China and a Chair Professor of the Department of Computer and Information Science. Dr. Chen is a Fellow of the IEEE and the AAAS. He is the Editorin-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics:Systems (2014-) and Associate Editor of several IEEE Transactions. His research areas are systems, cybernetics, and computational intelligence. He was the President of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (2012-2013) and was the General Chair of SMC 2009 annual conference and Program Chair of SMC 2014 in addition to serving as general/program chair of many international conferences. He is also an ExCom member of Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), a Fellow of CAA, a Fellow of HKIE, an Associate Editor-in-Chief for Communication of CAA, the Chair of TC 9.1 Economic and Business Systems of IFAC, and a Program Evaluator of ABET (Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology) in electrical engineering, comp engineering, and software engineering. (e-mail: philip.chen@ieee.org)

Wei He (S'09-M'12-SM'16) received the B.Eng. degree from College of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology (SCUT), China, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree from Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, in 2011. He worked as a Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NUS, Singapore, from 2011 to 2012. He is currently working as a Full Professor in School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China. He has co-authored 1 book published in Springer and published over 100 international journal and conference papers. He serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics:Systems and IEEE Access, a Leading Guest Editor for of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems special issue on "Intelligent Control Through Neural Learning and Optimization for Human Machine Hybrid Systems", and an Editor of Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems and IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. His current research interests include robotics, distributed parameter systems and intelligent control systems. (e-mail: weihe@ieee.org)