Keynote Speakers
Prof. Marcelo H. ANG Jr, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Biography: Marcelo H. Ang, Jr. received the B.Sc. degrees (Cum Laude) in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management Engineering from the De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, in 1981; the M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1985; and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, in 1986 and 1988, respectively. His work experience includes heading the Technical Training Division of Intel's Assembly and Test Facility in the Philippines, research positions at the East West Center in Hawaii and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a faculty position as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Rochester, New York. In 1989, Dr. Ang joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the National University of Singapore, where he is currently a professor. He is also the Director of the Advanced Robotics Centre. His research interests span the areas of robotics, mechatronics, and applications of intelligent systems methodologies. He teaches both at the graduate and undergraduate levels in the following areas: robotics; creativity and innovation, and Engineering Mathematics. He is also active in consulting work in robotics and intelligent systems. In addition to academic and research activities, he is actively involved in the Singapore Robotic Games as its founding chairman and the World Robot Olympiad as a member of the Advisory Council.
Prof. Hisato KOBAYASHI (IEEE Life Fellow), Emeritus Professor in Hosei University, Japan
Biography:
Hisato Kobayashi got B.S.,
M.S., and D.E. degrees from Waseda University in 1974,1976
and 1979, respectively. He joined Hosei University in 1984.
He is now a Professor Emeritus Hosei University. From 2001
to 2002, he was the founding president of Hosei University
Research Institute, California. He was the Founding Dean of
the Faculty of Engineering and Design from 2007 to 2008. He
was a board member of the Robotics Society Japan (RSJ) from
1994 to 1996.
He was a board member of The Society of Instrument and
Control Engineers (SICE) from 2002 to 2004 and the vice
president from 2018 to 2020. He was editor-in-chief of
Advanced Robotics, Journal of RSJ, from 1997 to 2002.
From 2003 to 2005, he was the chairman of the automatic
control committee, Science Council Japan, and a member of
Science Council Japan from 2006 to 2014. From 2010 to 2013,
he was a Program Officer at the Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science. Since 2008, he has been the chairman
of the Standing Steering Committee IEEE International
Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication.
He is an IEEE Life Fellow
Prof. Wei-Hsin Liao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Biography: Wei-Hsin Liao received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA. Since August 1997, Dr. Liao has been with The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is Choh-Ming Li Professor of Mechanical and Automation Engineering. His research has led to publications of over 380 technical papers and 27 patents. He received the T A Stewart-Dyer/F H Trevithick Prize 2005, the ASME 2017 Best Paper Award in Mechanics and Material Systems, the ASME 2021 Energy Harvesting Best Paper Award, and the ASME 2023 Best Paper Award in Structural Dynamics and Control. He is the recipient of the 2020 ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Award and the 2018 SPIE SSM Lifetime Achievement Award, to recognize his outstanding contributions to the advancement of smart structures and materials. He is also the recipient of 2023 ASME Leonardo Da Vinci Award for the eminent achievement in the design and invention. Dr. Liao currently serves as an Associate Editor for Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, and on the Executive Editorial Board of Smart Materials and Structures. Dr. Liao is a Fellow of ASME, HKIE, and IOP.