Prof. Rong Xiong is the leader of the Robotics Laboratory at Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, Zhejiang University, the co-director of ZJU-UTS Joint Center on Robotics Research, the expert member for key special project on intelligent robot of Ministry of science and technology, China, and the member of international trustee committee of RoboCup. 

Her research interests include perception, learning and control for mobile robot, manipulator and humanoid robot. She conducted her group successfully develop two humanoid robots which can demonstrate table tennis rally with each other and against a human player, as well as quadruped running robot “Chitu”.  She has successfully verified the techniques on mobile robots in industry applications and productions, such as patrol robot for substation, nature navigation AGV for factory and warehouse, automatic delivery robot in campus and etc. She has published more than 80 academic papers, been authorized 46 national invention patents and 1 USA invention patent. As the first winner, she was awarded the first prize of Scientific and Technological Award of Zhejiang Province in 2013 and the first prize of teaching achievement of Zhejiang Province in 2014.