Dr Kong’s research interests include mechanisms, robotics, mechatronics and their industrial and biomedical applications at the macro-, micro- and nano-scales. He has published a book on parallel manipulators by Springer and has been granted two United States patents (with Prof. C Gosselin), in addition to several journal and conference papers. He is an ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Committee Member and serves as an associate editor for Mechanism and Machine Theory. (For more information, please visit http://www.eps.hw.ac.uk/~xk5/).