Debao Zhou
Dr. Debao Zhou is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He joined UMD as a tenure-track assistant professor in 2009 and promoted to associate professor in 2014 and full professor in 2018. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University Singapore researching in bio-robotics. He proposed and developed the Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME) program in 2015 and was the Director of Graduate Study of this program from then to May 2019. Dr. Zhou teaches in the areas of signal processing, kinematics, control, robotics, machine vision and pattern recognition. He received 2013 SCSE Young Teacher Award. Leading the Intelligent Sensing and Design Lab, Dr. Zhou has received over half million dollars in funds as principal investigator (PI) or co-PI that are related to his teaching and research missions which includes the grants from international resources, the Miller-Dawn Foundation, and the MnDRIVE Initiative on Robotics, Sensors, and Advanced Manufacturing. His research has led to principal author and co-authoring of near 90 peer reviewed journal and conference publications, such as IEEE Sensors Journal, Smart Materials and Structures, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, and IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology.
