Professor Shugen Ma (IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow, JSME Fellow, Foreign Fellow of the EAJ) received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering Science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Before he joined HKUST (GZ), he was a professor at Ritsumeikan University and a visiting professor at John Hopkins University, Shenyang Institute of Automation of CAS, Tianjin University, and Harbin Institute of Technology, respectively. He has published 520+ papers in major journals and conference proceedings, developed 50+ novel robot systems with 80+ patents, and supervised 44 doctoral students to graduation. Professor Ma’s research interests include but are not limited to the design and control of environment-adaptive robots, amphibious robots, field robotics, and biologically inspired robotics.