Biography:

Zhang Ping graduated from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Tianjin University in 1994 with a major in mechanical engineering. He worked at the School of Mechanical Engineering and the College of Intelligence & Computing at Tianjin University from March 1989 to November 1997.

Zhang is currently a professor and PhD instructor at the School of Computer Science & Engineering at South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, the capital city of South China's Guangdong province.

Zhang is a member of the Board of Guangdong Association of Automation, vice director of the Guangdong Committee of Robotic Technology, deputy director-general of the Guangdong Robot Industry Technology Innovation Alliance, an executive member of the Board of Guangdong Innovation Center for Informatization and Industrialization Integration, and an executive member of the Board of the Manufacturing Informatization Institute under the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society.

During his visit to the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2001 and 2002, Zhang worked with Professor Xu Yangsheng, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shenzhen, to conduct research on intelligent robotics, space robotics, service (portable) robotics and modern manufacturing systems.

Zhang is a peer reviewer of international journals such as Journal of Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, The Journal of the Franklin Institute and Journal of Robotics & Automation Technology.

Research Interests:

Zhang has been mainly dedicated to the research of artificial intelligence, intelligent human-computer interaction, intelligent robots, intelligent unmanned systems and intelligent manufacturing technology and systems.

He has completed more than 40 state-level and provincial-level scientific research projects, which include 20 items from the National 863 Projects, such as Research on Modeling and Compensation of Pose Error of Intelligent Assembly Robots, Research on the Design Theories and Methods of Flexible Assembly Lines and Assembly Planning, and Research on High-speed IP-supported Multimedia Distance Education Demonstration Systems.

Meanwhile, a dozen of his research programs have been identified as major scientific and technological programs in Guangdong and Guangzhou, such as Research on Core Technologies Connected with Unmanned Systems for Collaborative and Autonomous Processing, Research on Robots' Perception and Human-Robot Integrated Technologies, and the LSOA-supported Opening Architecture Control Platform.

In addition, Zhang has been awarded either copyright or software copyright for more than 30 concrete items and published more than 100 papers in the Science Citation Index.

Awards:

1. Research program on core technologies related to the flexible assembly line of customized furniture panels and its industrialization won the 2018 Guangdong Science and Technology Award’s third-place prize.

2. Research program on computer information networks and relevant core technologies won first prize at the 2001 National Award for Research in Institutes of Higher Education.

3. Research program on the design theories of flexible assembly systems and relevant core technologies won the second-place prize at the 2002 National Award for Research in Institutes of Higher Education.

4. Research program on multi-function simulated tools and application technologies in performance assessment won the third prize of the Ministry of Education's 1998 Science and Technology Progress Award.

5. Research program on robotics-based flexible assembly systems and core technologies won a third-place prize from the Ministry of Education in 1991.

6. Research program on STJ-1 Plane Articulated Robots won a third-place prize from the Ministry of Education in 1991.