ZHANG Libin is a well-known roboticist

Roboticist

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 in China

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 and the current President

President

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 of the Zhejiang University of Technology

Zhejiang University of Technology

Zhejiang University of Technology is located in the city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. It is considered one of the top industrial universities in mainland China and the second largest university in Zhejiang Province after the most comprehensive university - Zhejiang University.Engineering,...

.

Biography

Zhang was born in August 1955 in Yiwu

Yiwu

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, Jinhua City

Jinhua

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, Zhejiang Province. He did his undergraduate and postgraduate studies all at Zhejiang Agricultural University (current Zhejiang University

Zhejiang University

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). In 1985, he became a lecturer

Lecturer

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 in the Department of Agricultural Engineering, Zhejiang Agricultural University, and later was promoted to the director of the department and the dean

Dean (education)

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 position. In September 1994, he was transferred to the Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT), and became its Vice-president. March 2005, he became the 3rd President of the Zhejiang University of Technology.

Zhang also serves as a vice-president of the Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Association, and a director of the Chinese Society for Agricultural Engineering (中國農業工程學會/中国农业工程学会).

Zhang's research mainly focuses on the automation and robotics both in agriculture and industrial mass production.