YuMing Zhang is a Full Professor at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, in the USA. He received his BS and MS degrees in control major from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China where he finished his PhD degree in welding major in 1990. He has over 200 Journal Papers and 12 US Patents, with his expertise including advanced sensing, control, learning/modelling, and intelligent robotic systems with application to real-time monitoring and control of innovative welding processes, human-robot collaborative systems, and intelligent welding robots. He is currently an Editor for the Journal of Manufacturing Processes. He is a Fellow of the American Welding Society (AWS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and Society of Manufacturing (SME).