Qingsong Xu is a Full Professor with the Department of Electromechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, where he directs the Smart and Micro/Nano Systems Laboratory. His current research area involves mechatronics, robotics and mechanisms, control and automation, smart and micro/nano systems, precision manipulation robots and applications, etc. He has published 3 monographs in Springer and Wiley and over 280 technical papers in international journals and conferences. His publications have been cited by over 7000 times in Google Scholar with h-index of 48. Prof. Xu is the recipient of several Best Paper Awards from IEEE international conferences. He has received multiple times of Macao Science and Technology Awards from Macao SAR, China.