Institute of Water Research

Biography:

Dr. Xiaobo Tan is an MSU Research Foundation Distinguished Professor and the Richard M. Hong Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University (MSU). He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in automatic control from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests span underwater robotics, soft robotics, smart materials, and control systems. In particular, his group has developed a number of robots and sensors for various agricultural, industrial, fishery, and environmental applications. He has published over 300 papers and been awarded 8 US patents in these areas.