Prof. Zhu received his Bachelors and Masters of Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He received his doctoral degree in engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2007. He is a tenuered faculty member at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Prof. Zhu worked at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology as a Visiting Professor, at the Technical University of Munich (Germany) as a visiting scholar, and at the University of Minnesota (USA) as a visiting scholar. His current research interests include Intelligent Manufacturing (precision machining, additive manufacturing, micro machining, plastic processing), Laser processing (laser forming, laser coloring, surface treatment), Robotics (intelligent control of robot manipulator, micromanipulation robot, mobile robot, human-machine interface) and Digital Manufacturing (CAD/CAM, process planning, reverse engineering, geometric modeling).