Simon X. Yang (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in engineering physics from Beijing University, Beijing, China, in 1987, the M.Sc. degree in biophysics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, in 1990, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, in 1999.,He is currently a Professor and the Head of the Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada. He has been very active in professional activities. His research interests include robotics, intelligent systems, sensors and multisensor fusion, wireless sensor networks, control systems, machine learning, fuzzy systems, and computational neuroscience.