Zhou Yitong, a Ph.D. candidate, serves as an associate professor and doctoral supervisor at the Wu Xianming School of Intelligent Engineering, South China University of Technology. She is the head of the robotics engineering discipline and the director of the Smart Medical and Assistive Devices Research Center within the school. In 2011, She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Vehicle Engineering from Tsinghua University. In 2020, he obtained a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and a master's degree in Applied Statistics from Ohio State University. Currently, She leads multiple scientific research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China's Youth Science Foundation, Guangdong Provincial General Projects, Guangzhou Basic and Applied Basic Research Projects, key projects funded by the Basic Research Funds for the Central Universities, and school-enterprise cooperation projects. She has participated as a key member in several scientific research projects funded by the National Science Foundation and Honda R&D Center North America. She has been shortlisted for the 2022 IEEE ROBIO Best Paper Award (as a supervisor), the 2022 ASME JMR Best Paper Award, and the 2025 IROS Soft Frontier Speaker Award. She has published over 30 academic papers in journals and conferences such as IEEE TRO, IEEE TIM, IEEE Sensors, RAL, ICRA, and IROS.

Email: zhouyitong@scut.edu.cn