Max Q.-H. Meng is Chair Professor and Head of EE Department at Southern University of Science and Technology, Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering and IEEE. Formerly a tenured professor at the University of Alberta in Canada and Head of EE Department at Chinese University of Hong Kong. He specializes in robotics perception and intelligence. Ranked in the global top 2% of scientists by Stanford, he has published over 1,000 papers, holds 100+ patents, and won 30+ awards, including the IROS Harashima Award. He has led 60+ research projects (¥100M+) to completion, delivered 200+ plenary talks, and serves as editor for leading journals, including founding Editor-in-Chief of Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics published by Elsevier. He was the General Chair of the flagship conferences in robotics and automation: IEEE/RSJ IROS 2005 and IEEE ICRA 2021.