Guimin Chen is a visiting professor at the Compliant Mechanisms Research (CMR) Lab of Brigham Young University. Before this visit, he worked at CMR as a visiting scholar for a year starting from October 2007. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in Mechatronics and doctorate in Mechanical Manufacturing and Its Automation from Xidian University in 2000, 2003 and 2005, respectively, where he leads a Compliant Mechanisms and Robotics Research group.
He is one of the translators of the Chinese version of Handbook of Compliant Mechanisms. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor of ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics. His major research interests include compliant mechanisms and their applications.