Xianyi Zeng (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree from the Centre d’ Automatique, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Villeneuve-d’ Ascq, France, in 1992. He is a Professor with the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Industries Textiles, Roubaix, France, director of GEMTEX Laboratory and full Professor at ENSAIT, University of Lille. He has published three books, 140 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and 250 papers in international scientific conferences. He has presented over 25 plenary presentations in international conferences. Since 1995 he has received numerous academic awards from France, the United States and Rome etc.