Mir Behrad Khamesee (Member, IEEE) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering (mechatronics) from Mie University, Tsu, Japan, in 1996 and 1999, respectively, a Japanese Government Scholarship. He worked in the industry in Japan from 1999 to 2002. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, from 2002 to 2003. In March 2004, he became an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, where he was promoted to an Associate Professor in July 2009 and a Professor in July 2015. He is one of the co-PIs in establishing a multimillion-dollar robotic research facility, Robohub, at the University of Waterloo. His research interests include the design, modeling, and control of advanced mechatronics systems, particularly microrobotic magnetic levitation and regenerative electromagnetic shock absorbers. Dr. Khamesee is involved in conference program committees, has organized several sessions at international conferences, and is a technical reviewer for several IEEE and Elsevier journals.