Zhang Libin (

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: 張立彬,

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: 张立彬; born 1955), is a well-known

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and the current

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of the

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Biography

Zhang was born in August 1955 in

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, Jinhua City,

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. He did his

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and

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studies all at Zhejiang Agricultural University (current

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). In 1985, he became a

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in the Department of Agricultural Engineering, Zhejiang Agricultural University, and later was promoted to the

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of the department and the

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position. In September 1994, he was transferred to the Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT), and became its

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. March 2005, he became the 3rd President of the Zhejiang University of Technology. Zhang also serves as a vice-president of the Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Association, and a director of the Chinese Society for Agricultural Engineering (中國農業工程學會/中国农业工程学会). Zhang's research mainly focuses on the automation and robotics both in agriculture and industrial mass production.科学中国网→张立彬教授-浙江工业大学常务副校长 (SciChina: Prof. Zhang Libin)

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