The Editors

Ning Xi, DSc, is a University Distinguished Professor and John D. Ryder Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University, where he served previously as the director of the Robotics and Automation Laboratory. Currently, he is the head and chair professor of the Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the City University of Hong Kong. He received his D.Sc. in systems science and mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of several award-winning papers in conference proceedings and recognized journals in his field.

Guangyong Li, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from Michigan State University. He has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings on nanorobotic manipulation, nanoscale characterization, and multiscale simulation of organic solar cells.

Mingjun Zhang, DSc, is an associate professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He received his DSc from Washington University in St. Louis, and his PhD from Zhejiang University, China. He was awarded the Young Investigator Program Award by ONR and the Early Career Award by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Research results from his group have been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nano Letters, Advanced Functional Materials, and PLOS Computational Biology, and highlighted by Science, Nature, and AAAS Science Update.