Editor in Chief

Xiaobo Tan is an MSU Research Foundation Distinguished Professor and the Richard M. Hong
Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University. He
received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in automatic control from Tsinghua University,
Beijing, China, in 1995, 1998, respectively, and his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering
from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2002. His research interests include
underwater robotics, soft robotics, smart materials, and control systems. He has published over
300 papers and been awarded seven US patents in these areas. Dr. Tan is a Fellow of IEEE and
ASME. He was a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2006), MSU Teacher-Scholar Award
(2010), MSU College of Engineering Withrow Distinguished Scholar Award (2018),
Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
University of Maryland (2018), MSU William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award, and multiple
best paper awards. He has served the professional community in different capacities, including
being a member of ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division’s Executive Committee, the
general chair of 2018 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference and 2023 American
Control Conference, and the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.