Biography:
Dr. Dingguo Zhang received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Jilin University, Changchun, China, in 2000, the M.Eng. degree in control engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2007. From 2006 to 2007, he was a Research Fellow at the Biorobtoics Laboratory, Nanyang Technological University. In 2008, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Le Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Robotique et de Micro´electronique de Montpellier (LIRMM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. He is the member of IEEE, EMBS, RAS, and IFESS. He won the Delsys Prize in 2011. His current research interests include biological cybernetics, biomechatronics, and rehabilitation techniques.

Biography
Pete Shull is currently a PhD student at Stanford University in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is expected to get the PhD degree in April, 2012. He received the Master of Science degree from Stanford University in 2008 in Mechanical Engineering. He was the primary author of a major U.S. National Science Foundation grant award and is a patent holder for a portable movement retraining system using haptic feedback and cell phones. His research interests include EMG-controlled robotics, haptics, and control techniques for medical applications.