Lihui Wang is a Professor and Chair of Sustainable Manufacturing in the Department of Production Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. He received his PhD and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Kobe University (Japan) in 1993 and 1990, respectively, and BS degree in Machine Design (China) in 1982. He was an Assistant Professor of Kobe University and Toyohashi University of Technology (Japan) prior to joining National Research Council of Canada (NRC) in 1998, where he was a Senior Research Scientist before moving to Sweden in 2008 to take a professorship at University of Skövde. He joined KTH in November 2012. Professor Wang's research interests are presently focused on energy modeling, dynamic behaviors of machine tools, distributed process planning, web-based realtime monitoring and control, condition-based maintenance, human-robot collaboration, cloud manufacturing, and adaptive and sustainable manufacturing systems. His recent work has won a Best Paper Award at FAIM 2002 (International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing) in Germany, a Best Poster Award at IFIP 2003 (IFIP Conference on Virtual Enterprises) in Switzerland, and an Outstanding Paper Award Finalist at NAMRC 2008 (North American Manufacturing Research Conference) in Mexico. He is also an eight-time winner of NRC Institute Awards on Excellence and Leadership in R&D, Multidisciplinary Collaborative Research, Global Reach, and Outstanding People. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Manufacturing Research, Editor of Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Editor (Northern Europe) of Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Associate Editor of Journal of Manufacturing Systems, and an Editorial Board Member of other seven international journals.