Dr. PAI ZHENG is currently an Associate Professor, Wong Tit Shing Endowed Young Scholar in Smart Robotics, Leader of Research Group of AI for Industrial Digital Servitization (RAIDS), and Director of PolyU-Rhein Köster Joint Laboratory on Smart Manufacturing, in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HKSAR. Before this, he has been a Research Fellow in the Delta-NTU Corporate Laboratory for Cyber-Physical Systems, in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) from Jan. 2018 to Sept. 2019. He received his Dual Bachelor’s Degrees in Material Processing and Control Engineering (major), and Computer Science and Engineering (minor), from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2010, Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 2013, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, in 2017. His research interest includes smart product-service systems, human-robot collaboration, and smart manufacturing systems. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and CMES, Member of ASME/SME/CIRP, and serves as the Associate Editor of Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing and Journal of Cleaner Production, Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Manufacturing Systems and Advanced Engineering Informatics, and Guest Editor/Reviewer for several high impact international journals in the manufacturing and industrial engineering field.