Professor Wuqiang Yang (Fellow, IEEE, FIET, FInstMC) has been working with The University of Manchester in the UK since 1991. His main research interests are electrical capacitance tomography (ECT), and touch sensors for robots. He received several national and international awards, including the 2021 IEEE IMS Best Application Award. He is an associate editor of IET Sci. Meas. and Technol. Currently, he is the director of the Joint Research Laboratory of Touch Sensors for Domestic Robots at The University of Manchester. Pingjuan Niu is working as a professor at the School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tiangong University of China.

She received her Ph.D. from the School of Microelectronics, Tianjin University in 2002. Her research interests cover intelligent signal processing, intelligent sensor and system integration, and fault bearing diagnosis. She has presided over many scientific research projects and has deep scientific research foundations. Jun Ohta received the B.E., M.

E., and Dr. Eng. degrees in applied physics, all from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1981, 1983, and 1992, respectively. In 1983, he joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Hyogo, Japan. From 1992 to 1993, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Optoelectronics Computing Systems Center, the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 1998, he joined the Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Nara, Japan, as an associate professor. He was appointed as a professor in 2004 and Executive Director and Vice President of NAIST.

His current research interests include smart CMOS image sensors for biomedical applications and retinal prosthetic devices. Dr. Ohta serves as several technical program committee members, including ISSCC and VLSI Symposium, and as an Editorial Board of J. Eng., IET, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys.

, and Sensors and Materials.