Ian Manchester received the B.E. (Hons 1) and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He has held research positions at Umea University, Sweden, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. In 2012 he joined the faculty at the University of Sydney, where he is currently Professor of Mechatronic Engineering, Director of the Australian Centre for Robotics (ACFR) and Director of the Australian Robotic Inspection and Asset Management Hub (ARIAM). His research interests include optimization and learning methods for nonlinear system analysis, identification, and control, with applications in robotics and biomedical engineering. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Control Systems Letters and has previously served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters.