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Dingjiang Zhou is a leading researcher in robotics, with a primary focus on multi-robot coordination, collision avoidance, and tactile sensing. His most impactful contribution is the development of a fast, on-line collision avoidance algorithm for dynamic vehicles using Buffered Voronoi Cells (BVC), a highly cited work (279 citations) that provides a provably safe, distributed solution for robots navigating in arbitrary dimensions. This work is foundational for ensuring safety in dense, multi-agent systems. Zhou has also made significant strides in vision-based distributed formation control, enabling teams of robots to achieve desired formations without relying on external positioning systems (172 citations). His research extends to tactile sensing, where he designed a fingertip three-axis tactile sensor using quantum tunneling composites for multifingered grasping (79 citations), and to quadrotor control, proposing a differential flatness-based method for vector field following (78 citations). Through these contributions, Zhou has advanced both the theoretical foundations and practical capabilities of autonomous robotic systems, particularly in areas of safety, perception, and manipulation.