Lixin Dong
Lixin Dong is a Senior Research Scientist at ETH-Zurich, where he leads the NanoRobotics Group in the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS). He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Xi’an University of Technology (XUT) in 1989 and 1992, respectively. He became Research Associate in 1992, Lecturer in 1995, and Associate Professor in 1998 at XUT, where he has served as the head of the Department of Mechatronics Engineering at XUT from 1997-1999. He received his Ph.D. degree in Micro Systems Engineering from Nagoya University in 2003, and became Assistant Professor at Nagoya University in 2003. In 2004 he joined ETH Zurich as a Research Scientist. His main research interests include nanorobotics, mechatronics, nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), mechnochemistry, and nanobiomedical devices. He received the IEEE T-ASE Googol Best New Application Paper Award in 2007, Best Conference Paper Award at the Int. Conf. on Control Sci. and Engr. (ICCSE2003), Best Automation Paper Award—Finalist at 2007 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2007), RSJ/SICE Award for 2005 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2005) Best Paper Nomination Finalist, and Finalist in the Best Conference Paper Competition at ICRA2001. He has been awarded the Science and Technology Advancement Prize by the Ministry of Education of China in 1999, by the Shaanxi Province Government in 1999 and 1995, by Xi’an City Government in 1999, and by the Ministry of Machine-Building Industry of China in 1998 and 1992. He serves on the editorial board of the IEEE Trans. on Nanotechnology and the IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering, and has chaired several international conferences and workshops. He is a member of IEEE, ASME, ACS (American Chemistry Society), and APS (American Physics Society), and has been a member of the Robotics Society of Japan.
