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Xingwen Zheng is a tenure-track professor (under the Hundred Talents Program) with the College of Control Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University (ZJU). Previously, he was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Japan (in micro-robotic manipulations, supervised by Professor Fumihito Arai). He completed Ph.D. programs at Peking University, China (in dynamics and control, supervised by Professor Guangming Xie) and the University of Groningen, The Netherlands (in biomimetic sensory systems, supervised by Professor Ming Cao and Professor Ajay Kottapalli). He received a B.E. degree in mechanical engineering and automation from Northeastern University, China.

His research interests include underwater robots, bio-inspired robots, biomimetic sensory systems, and robotic manipulations. He has published papers (> 30, including 5 cover articles) in journals such as Nature Communications, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), Soft Robotics, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, and Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, as well as conferences such as IROS, ICRA, MEMS, Transducers, etc. He has published two academic books. He has 12 authorized patents and has served as PIs in 3 research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), etc. He was the recipient of > 20 awards such as the JSPS postdoctoral fellow, Huawei-Zhejiang University Qizhen Outstanding Young Scholar Award, Institute of Physics Publishing China Highly Cited Paper Award (2018-2020), Best Conference Paper Award Finalist of IEEE CYBER 2025, Best Application Paper Award Finalist of MARSS 2024, Wiley China Open Science Author Award, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, National Scholarship, Peking University COE Top 10 Outstanding Doctoral Students Award, etc.

He serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, a youth editor for Advanced Bionics, Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics, and Soft Science, a guest editor of the Journal of Hydrodynamics and SES 2024, and a review editor of Frontiers in Robotics and AI. He also served as a reviewer for leading journals and conferences in robotics and biomimetics research, including Nature Portfolio journal, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, Small, Advanced Intelligent Systems, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), etc. He was selected for the TMECH Junior Reviewers Program. He won the IOP Outstanding Reviewer Awards 2023 (Bioinspiration & Biomimetics).