Biography: Dezhen Song is a Professor and Deputy Chair with Department of Robotics in MBZ University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi, UAE, and was a Professor and former Associate Department Head with Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA. Song received his Ph.D. in 2004 from University of California, Berkeley; MS and BS from Zhejiang University in 1998 and 1995, respectively. Song's primary research area is robot perception, networked robots, visual navigation, automation, and stochastic modeling. From 2008 to 2012, Song was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO). From 2010 to 2014, Song was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE). Song was a Senior Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) from 2017 to 2021 and currently is a Senior Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE). He is also a multimedia editor and chapter author for Springer Handbook of Robotics. His research has resulted in one monograph and more than 150 refereed conferences and journal publications. Dr. Song received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2007, the Kayamori Best Paper Award of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), the 2022 Best Paper Award of the LCT 2022 Affiliated Conference, the 1st place in the GM/SAE AutodriveChallenge II competition in 2022, and the Amazon Research Award in 2020.