Dr. Fei Tao is a Professor at the School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering and the Dean of the International Institute for Interdisciplinary and Frontiers at Beihang University, Beijing, China. His research focuses on smart manufacturing and digital twins. He has served as PI for over 30 national research and industry projects. He has published seven books and over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles as the first/corresponding author in Nature, CIRP Annals, and IEEE/ASME Transactions, with over 30 of them being ESI highly cited papers. His publications have over 50,000 citations. He was elected as the Global Highly Cited Researcher (2019-2024) and one of the 20 Most Influential Academics in Smart Manufacturing by SME in 2021. He is currently the Associate Editor of Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (RCIM), CIRP Associate Member and IEEE Senior Member. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Digital Twin in Taylor & Francis Group and Digital Engineering in Elsevier; and he also initiated the Digital Twin Global Forum (DTGF) and the Digital Twin International Conferences (DigiTwin).

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