周奕彤博士，华南理工大学吴贤铭智能工程学院副教授、博士生导师，机器人工程专业负责人，学院智慧医疗与辅助装置研究中心主任。本科毕业于清华大学车辆工程系，博士毕业于俄亥俄州立大学机械工程系。研究方向为机器人驱动系统与机器人系统设计，重点开展高性能致动器设计、驱动建模、柔性感知与机器人系统集成与控制研究，并推动相关技术在可穿戴外骨骼、仿生机器人及巡检机器人中的工程应用。主持国家自然科学基金等科研项目10余项，在 IEEE TRO、IEEE TIM、IEEE RAL、ICRA、IROS 等期刊与会议发表论文近40篇。相关研究入围 IEEE ROBIO 与 ASME JMR 最佳论文奖，并获 2025 IROS Soft Frontier Speaker Award。组建并领导20余人机器人技术团队，开发机器人系统原型20余个。

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