Liu Qi was born on October 28, 1987 in Taiyuan, China. From 2006 to 2010, he studied mechanical engineering at the Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. In 2014, he graduated as a master of science in Commercial Vehicle Technology from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. His graduate thesis was on implementing the Disturbance Estimation and Compensation model to the biologically inspired control system. He is currently a Ph.D student at the University of Kaiserslautern with the research topics on the reinforcement learning and optimization of the behaviour-based bipedal robot control. He is now participating in the H2R – Integrated Approach for the Emergence of Human-like Robot Locomotion project.