Yezhou Yang, an assistant professor in computer science and engineering in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision System Engineering at Arizona State University. He earned his doctorate in computer science in 2015 from the University of Maryland at College Park. His dissertation research on computational tools and the underlying mechanisms of robotic manipulation actions has been featured in MIT Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, Time magazine and the Washington Post. Yang’s research interests also include computer vision, autonomous intelligent robots and artificial intelligence.