Dr. Shanben Chen (S B Chen) received his BS degree in industrial automation from Dalian Railway Institute (Dalian Jiao Tong University) in 1982, and received his MS and PhD in control theory and application from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 1987 and 1991, respectively. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Key Laboratory of Advanced Welding Production of China in Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) from 1993 to 1995, and as a professor from 1995 to 2000. From 2000 to present, he has served as the Special Professor, Cheung Kong Scholar Program of the Ministry of Education of China & Li Ka Shing Foundation, Hong Kong, and engaged at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, where he is also director of the Intelligentized Robotic Welding Technology Laboratory, SJTU. Prof. Chen is a senior member of the IEEE; He was the former chair of the Robotics & Automation Committee of the Chinese Welding Society (CWS) from 1996 ~ 2022. Professor Chen is also the founder of two series of the international conferences, the RWIA and the IWIWM on which TIWM relies.