Yan Zhuang is a Professor in School of Control Science and Engineering at Dalian University of Technology, China, leading the Intelligent Robotics Lab (DUT Robotics Lab). His research interests include mobile robot 3D environment perception and mapping, outdoor scene understanding and machine learning in robotics. He has published over 60 papers in journals and conferences in these areas including IEEE Transactions and Journal, IEEE ICRA, IEEE IROS, and received best paper award in WCICA2006. He has been a chair or committee member for many international conferences such as IEEE ICSSE, CYBER, ROBIO and WCICA. Intelligent robotic products developed by DUT Robotics Lab won the “Excellent Product Award” of China Hi-Tech Fair in 2010, 2016 and 2017. His lab has provided 1 stack and 7 packages to ROS.org, and also published several 3D point clouds processing algorithms in Point Cloud Library (PCL). He currently serves as the member of Robotics Professional Committee of CAA and council member of Liaoning Association for Artificial intelligence.