Dr. Zhi Zheng received her B.S. (2008) in Biomedical Engineering and her M.S. (2011) in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from Xidian University. Then she received her M.S. (2013) and Ph.D. (2016) in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University. She joined Michigan Tech as a research assistant professor right after Ph.D. graduation and then moved to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as an assistant professor of Biomedical/Electrical Engineering in 2017. She joined RIT in Aug. 2019. Dr. Zheng's research emphasizes the integration of robotics, virtual reality, computer vision, machine learning, and psychology, with a focus on machine intelligence. The overarching goal of her research is to explore new paradigms of human-machine interaction (HMI) to help people in their daily life and design reliable assistive systems for mental health care. Her research is highly interdisciplinary and transformative, as it crosses the boundaries between engineering, psychology, and cognitive science.