Weidong Chen received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Control Engineering in 1990 and 1993, and Ph.D. degree in Mechatronics in 1996, respectively, all from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. Since 1996, he has been at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University where he is currently Deputy Dean of the Institute of Medical Robotics, Professor of the Department of Automation. He is the founder of the Autonomous Robot Laboratory. From June 2013 to January 2019, he served as Chair of the Department of Automation at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. From August 2003 to February 2004, he was a visiting associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University. In July and August 2012, he was a visiting professor in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. He has been a visiting professor in the Brain Science Life Support Research Center at the University of Electro-Communications in Japan since 2016.

Dr. Chen’s current research interests include perception and control of robotic systems, medical robotics and assistive robotics. His research has been supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), National Key R&D Program, National High-tech R&D Program (863 Program), Ministry of Education (MOE), etc.  Dr. Chen has served on numerous program and organizing committees of international conferences. Most recently, he was a General Co-Chair of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018), Nanjing and Tai'an, China, August 27-31, 2018, and served as the General Chair of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-14), Shanghai, China, July 3-7, 2016.

Dr. Chen is a winner of the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award presented by the Shanghai Municipal Government in 2008, a winner of First Class Award for Excellent Teaching of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2015 and 2017, a winner of Best Paper Award of 2015 International Conference on Wearable Sensor and Robot (ICWSR 2015), a winner of Best Oral Presentation Award of 2013 International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2013), a winner of KUKA Service Robotics Best Paper Award of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in 2011, a winner of the Teaching Achievement Award presented by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission in 2004 and 2017. He has also been recognized by the 2007 New Century Excellent Talents of Ministry of Education of China, and a 2004 Shanghai Shuguang Scholar. He is a co-founder of the JiaoLong RoboCup Team. JiaoLong RoboCup Team has won more than 10 national championships in Soccer Middle Size League and RoboCup@home League in the past annual China Robot Competitions & China RoboCup Open since 2005.

1996: Ph.D., Institute of Robotics, Harbin Institute of Technology, China.
1993: M.S., Department of Control Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China.
1990: B.S., Department of Control Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China.

2018.6-Present: Deputy Dean and Professor, Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.
2013.6-2019.1: Chairman and Professor, Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.
2005.8-Present: Professor, Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.
1998.10-2005.8: Associate Professor, Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.
1996.10-1998.10: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.
2003.8-2004.2: Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, USA.
2012.7-2012.8: Visiting Professor, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
2016.4-2020.3: Visiting Professor, Brain Science Inspired Life Support Research Center, University of Electro-Communications, Japan.

Robotics: perception and control of robotic systems, surgical robotics and assistive robotics
Mechatronics: control of mechatronic system

[1]Zhe Liu, Weidong Chen*, Hesheng Wang, Yun-hui Liu, Yi Shen and Xiangyu Fu. (2018). A self-repairing algorithm with optimal repair path for maintaining motion synchronization of mobile robot network. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, DOI 10.1109/TSMC.2017.2726104.
[2]Fan Xu, Hesheng Wang*, Jingchuan Wang, Kwok Wai Samuel Au, Weidong Chen. (2019). Underwater dynamic visual servoing for a soft robot arm with online distortion correction. IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, 24(3): 979-989.
[3]Behnam Irani, Jingchuan Wang and Weidong Chen*, (2019). A localizability constraint-based path planning method for autonomous vehicles. IEEE Trans. on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 20(7): 2593-2604.
[4]Fan Xu, Hesheng Wang*, Kwok W. Samuel Au, Weidong Chen, and Yanzi Miao, (2018). Underwater dynamic modeling for a cable-driven soft robot arm. IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, 23(6): 2726-2738.
[5]Hesheng Wang, Runxi Zhang, Weidong Chen*, Xiaozhou Wang, Rolf Pfeifer. (2017). A cable-driven soft robot surgical system for cardiothoracic endoscopic surgery: preclinical tests in animals. Surgical Endoscopy, 31(8):3152-3158.
[6]Hesheng Wang, Chao Wang, Weidong Chen*, Xinwu Liang, and Yuting Liu. (2017). Three dimensional dynamics for cable-driven soft manipulator. IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, 22(1): 18-28.
[7]Hesheng Wang, Bohan Yang, Yuting Liu, Weidong Chen*, Xinwu Liang, and Rolf Pfeifer. (2017). Visual servoing of soft robot manipulator in constrained environments with an adaptive controller. IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, 22(1): 41-50.
[8]Zhixuan Wei, Weidong Chen*, Hesheng Wang, and Jingchuan Wang. (2017). Manipulator motion planning using flexible obstacle avoidance based on model learning. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 14(3): 1-12.
[9]Hesheng Wang, Runxi Zhang, Weidong Chen*, Xinwu Liang, and Rolf Pfeifer. (2016). Shape detection algorithm for soft manipulator based on fiber bragg gratings. IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, 21(6): 2977-2982.
[10]Yong Wang, Weidong Chen*, Jingchuan Wang, and Hesheng Wang. (2015). Active global localization based on localizability for mobile robots. Robotica, 33(8): 1609-1627.
[11]Yong Wang, Weidong Chen*, Jingchuan Wang. (2014). Map-based localization for mobile robots in high-occluded and dynamic environments. Industrial Robot: An International Journal, 41(3): 241-252.
[12]Zhixuan Wei, Weidong Chen*, Jingchuan Wang. (2013). Semantic mapping for smart wheelchair using RGB-D camera. Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, 3(1): 94-100.
[13]Fanwei Kong, Liang Yuan, Yuan F. Zheng, and Weidong Chen*. (2012). Automatic liquid handling for life science: a critical review of the current state of the art. Journal of Laboratory Automation, 17(3): 169-186.