Jian Xu received his Ph.D. degree in Dynamics and Control at Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 1994. Currently, he holds the position of Distinguished Professor and serves as the Director of the Institute on Dynamics and Control at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Beihang University, Beijing, China, from 1994 to 1996, and later at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, from 1996 to 1998. In 1998, he joined Tongji University as an associate professor and has held the position of professor since 2000. His primary research interests includes time delay-induced dynamics, locomotion robotics, nonlinear dynamics and control in natural and engineering systems, and vibration control. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed journal papers, two academic books, and a textbook. He received the National Science Fund for Outstanding Young Scholars (2006), and was awarded the Leading Talent of Shanghai (2008), the Shanghai Outstanding Academic Leader (2007), and the Model Teacher of Shanghai (2009).