Lin Yang serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Electric Engineering, and runs CIA lab (https://cialab.net/people), at Huazhong Agricultural University. From 2014 to 2016, he was a Researcher in the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering and Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University, USA. His academic research involves People-centric Internet of Things, Social Robots Interactions, and Smart Agriculture.