Professor Yuan F. Zheng received his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio in 1980 and 1984, respectively. His undergraduate degree was received at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1970. From 1984 to 1989, he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University, in Clemson, South Carolina. While at Clemson in 1986 Dr. Zheng invented the first Humanoid (Biped) Robot called CURBi in the U.S. Since August 1989, he has been with The Ohio State University, where he was Winbigler Designated Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Professor Zheng was the Chairman of the Department between 1993 and 2004, and was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1997. Professor Zheng received the Presidential Young Investigator Award from President Ronald Reagan in 1986, and Research Awards three times from the OSU College of Engineering. In 2017 he received the OSU Innovator of the Year Award for inventing a new Speed Reducer for robot joints. From 2004 to 2008, Professor Zheng served, on a part-time basis, as Dean of School of Electronic, Information, and Electrical Engineering at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China. He became faculty emeritus in 2017 and has continued his R&D activities by founding a startup to commercialize research results generated in laboratories.