Zhaojun Qin is a PhD candidate in Smart Manufacturing at the University of Auckland since 2019. Prior to this, he worked in a Chinese top-tier IT company, Meituan, as a data developer for 1.5 years. He completed his Master’s degree in Industrial and Manufacturing System Engineering (2015-2018) and Becher’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (2011-2015), respectively.

He dedicates to developing a manufacturing system with self-organizing capabilities to achieve flexible, autonomous, and error-tolerant manufacturing under mass personalization. Currently, his main research work is to develop self-organizing modeling and control architecture, interoperable peer communication, and adaptive manufacturing control.