Biography: Qingsong Xu is a Professor at the Department of Electromechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, and Director of Smart and Micro/Nano Systems Laboratory. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland, the National University of Singapore, Singapore, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA.

His current research involves micro/nanorobotics, flexible robotics, intelligent control, and their industrial and biomedical applications. He has published four books and over 400 papers in international journals and conferences, cited more than 13000 times in Google Scholar with an H-index of 66. Prof. Xu has received over a dozen best paper awards at international conferences and multiple times of Macao Science and Technology Awards from Macao SAR, China. He was selected into the Top 2% Scientists Worldwide, released by Stanford University in 2019-2024.

He currently serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2021-present). He was a Technical Editor of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2016-2020) and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (2019-2023) and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2017-2020). He was elected a Fellow of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) in 2021.