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He received the engineering degree from the Institut Catholique d’Arts et Métiers of Lille, France and a PhD degree in robotics from University of Evry, France. My thesis work was realized at CEA/Robotics and Interactive Systems Technologies followed by a postdoctoral position at the CIMIT SimGroup in Boston. He arrived at INRIA in 2006 in the ALCOVE team to work on interactive simulation of deformable objects and haptic rendering. In 2009, He was the vice-head of SHACRA team and focus on medical simulation. I am now the head of DEFROST team, created in January 2015 . His research topics are Soft Robot models and control, Fast Finite Element Methods, simulation of contact response and other complex mechanical interactions, new algorithms for haptics… All of his research results are developed in SOFA, which is a framework that we co-develop with other INRIA teams. He was also one of the founders of the start-up company InSimo which use our research results for a fantastic humanitarian project

His research topics are Soft Robot models and control, Fast Finite Element Methods, simulation of contact response and other complex mechanical interactions, new algorithms for haptics… All of his research results are developed in SOFA.

Full Professor, Head of the Department of Automation, Biomechanics and Mechatronics, Head of Ph.D. School on 'Mechanics' (since 1996) and of graduate/postgraduate programs on Mechatronics (since 2006). Recipient of multi-doctor honoris causa and the Humboldt Award. Author/co-author of over 720 journal papers and refereed international conference papers and 48 monographs. Editor of 22 books and 22 journal special issues. Principal investigator in 39 research grants by Polish Ministry of Education and Science (21), Committee for Scientific Research (17), National Science Centre (2). Member of Editorial Boards of 73 Journals (15 with IF) . Organizer and Head of the series of 14 International Conferences Dynamical Systems-Theory and Application (Lodz, 1992-2017) and of 3 International Conferences “Mechatronics: Ideas for Industrial Applications” (Warsaw 2012; Lodz, 2014; Gdansk, 2015), Chair of the "International Conference of the Polish Society of Biomechanics" (Lodz, 2014).

His papers and research cover various disciplines of mathematics, mechanics, biomechanics, automatics, physics and computer oriented sciences, with main focus on nonlinear processes

“Dr. Robert Skelton is currently a TEES Distinguished Research Professor at Texas A&M University and a former faculty fellow in the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study, at Texas A&M University.” From 1975-1996, Dr. Skelton served as a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Purdue University. In 1996, he became director of UCSD’s Structural Systems and Control Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). In 2006, UCSD named Dr. Skelton the Daniel L. Alspach Professor of Dynamics Systems and Controls in the Jacobs School of Engineering and professor emeritus in 2009. Dr. Skelton is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, an Emeritus fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a life member of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His major awards include: the SKYLAB Achievement Award, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award, the Humboldt Foundation Senior US Scientist Award, the Norman Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Humboldt Foundation Research Award, and the NASA Appreciation Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Designing controllable structures, designing structures using minimal material, integrating structure and control design, designing

Ian D. Walker received the B.Sc. Degree (First Class Honours) in Mathematics from the University of Hull, England, in 1983 and the M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1985 and 1989, respectively. He is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University, USA. Professor Walker is a Fellow of the IEEE and an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. He served as Vice President for Financial Activities for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society from 2006-2009, and from 2006-2008 served as Chair of the AIAA Technical Committee on Space Automation and Robotics. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of Soft Robotics. He has served on the Editorial Boards of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, the International Journal of Robotics and Automation, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, and the International Journal of Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing. Professor Walker's research centers on robotics, particularly novel manipulators and manipulation. His group is conducting basic research in the construction, modeling, and application of biologically inspired "trunk, tentacle, and worm" robots.

Basic research in the construction, modeling, and application of biologically inspired "trunk, tentacle, and worm" robots

Dr. Dan Zhang is a Kaneff Professor in Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics, as well as the Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at York University. Before 2016, Dr. Zhang was a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Advanced Robotics and Automation, was a founding Chair of the Department of Automotive, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Engineering with the Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science at University of Ontario Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Laval University, Canada, in June 2000. Dr. Zhang's research interests include robotics and mechatronics; high performance parallel robotic machine development; sustainable/green manufacturing systems; rehabilitation robot and rescue robot. Dr. Zhang’s contributions to and leadership within the field of robotic and automation have been recognized with several prestigious awards, within his own university (Research Excellence Award both from university level and faculty level), the Province of Ontario (Early Researcher Award), the professional societies (Fellow of the ASME, the EIC and the CSME), and federal funding agencies (Canada Research Chair in January 2009 and renewed in January 2014). Dr. Zhang is the editor-in-chief for International Journal of Mechanisms and Robotic Systems, the editor-in-chief for International Journal of Robotics Applications and Technologies. Dr. Zhang served as a member of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Grant Selection Committee. Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), a Fellow of (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) ASME, and a Fellow of (Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering) CSME, a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a Senior Member of SME.

Dr. Zhang's research interests include robotics and mechatronics; high performance parallel robotic machine development; sustainable/green manufacturing systems; rehabilitation robot and rescue robot.

Dr. Goldenberg is the founder of the field of Robotics at University of Toronto where he has been since 1982 as a Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, cross appointed in the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering, and previously cross-appointed in the Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Goldenberg is also an Adjunct Professor at Ryerson University and Guest Professor at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, P.R. China. From 1975-1981 Dr. Goldenberg has been an employee of SPAR Aerospace Ltd., of Toronto, working on the development of the first Space Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (Canadarm). Dr. Goldenberg has supervised the largest number of graduate students in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (46 PhD and 64 MASc). He has an exceptional publication record with over 4500 citations (128 archival journal papers, 294 papers in major conferences, 15 book chapters and 55 patents granted and applied). The citations count is the highest in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and one of the highest in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering. Though now a Professor Emeritus, since 2011, he maintains a full time load of graduate students and research. He is currently involved in technology development projects that include: mobile and modular robots, medical surgery robots, robots for hazardous environments, smart materials, and expert systems. Dr. Andrew Goldenberg, PhD, is the founder and President of Engineering Services Inc. (ESI) - www.esit.com, established in 1982. ESI is a high-technology company involved in the development of robotics-based automation. From 2000-2001 Dr. Goldenberg was also the President of Virtek Engineering Science Inc. (VESI), a high-technology company formed after the acquisition of part of ESI by Virtek Vision International Ltd., a publicly-listed company. Dr. Goldenberg is also President of Anviv Mechatronics Inc. (AMI), which he founded in 2006. Anviv is a high-technology company involved in the development of mechatronics products. Since May 2015 ESI has been acquired by a Chinese consortium located in Shenzhen, P.R. China. Dr. Goldenberg is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), a Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEng), and a Designated Consulting Engineer in Ontario. He is the recipient of the 2010 PEO Engineering Medal for Entrepreneurship and the 2013 EIC Sir John Kennedy Medal for Outstanding Merit in the Engineering Profession.

Robotics, Mechatronics and Instrumentation

M. Affan Badar, PhD is professor and chair of the Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management department at University of Sharjah (UAE). He is on leave from Indiana State University (USA) where he is a tenured professor and former chair in the Applied Engineering & Technology Management department. Dr. Badar earned a PhD degree in Industrial Engineering (IE) from U of Oklahoma (USA) in 2002, MS in Mechanical Engineering (ME) from King Fahd U of Petroleum and Minerals (Saudi Arabia) in 1993, and MSc in IE in 1990 and BSc in ME in 1988 from Aligarh Muslim U (India). He is an associate editor for Amer. J. of Engr. & Applied Sciences; editor for Advances in Mechanical Engr. (journal); and editorial board member for Int. J. of Quality & Reliability Mgmt and NED Univ. J. of Research: App Sciences. Dr. Badar has published over 55 articles in refereed journals and proceedings.

Lean manufacturing, reliability, quality, engineering economy, healthcare, and supply chain

Concettina Buccella (Senior Member IEEE) was born in L’ Aquila. She received the M.S. degree and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of L’Aquila, Italy, in 1988 and the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1995, respectively. After graduation she was a research engineer with Italtel SpA, L’Aquila, then in 1991 she joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of L’Aquila, where she was an assistant professor and since 2001 she is Associate Professor of Electrotechnics. She holds the italian habilitation as Full Professor in Power Converters, Drivers, Machines and Power Systems. She is Associate editor of IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics and of Springer's Journal of Intelligent Industrial Systems.She authored more than 130 papers published on international journals and on conference proceedings. Concettina Buccella is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the Power Electronics Committee and of the Smart Grids Committee of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, for many years she has been a member of the Electrostatic Process Committee of the IEEE Industry Applications Society. She was a Member of the Committee for Education Rights at the University of L’Aquila. She has been an evaluator of research projects, Ph.D. candidates and in promotions to Full Professor and to Associate Professor rank for several foreign institutions and universities. Concettina Buccella has been a reviewer for many international journals, mostly IEEE Transactions, including TPEL, TIA, TIE and TII, Elsevier journals and Springer journals. She has been a member of the Organizing Committee and a teacher of the Post M.S. Master “Energy Manager” at the Faculty of Engineering, University of L’Aquila. During 2009-2011, she has been a Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics - Special Section on: "Methods and Systems for Smart Grids Optimization" (published on October 2011) and during 2015-2016 of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics - Special Section on: “Recent Advances in Multilevel Inverters and their Applications” (published on December 2016). She has been a committee member, a reviewers and a session chair in international conferences being, among the others, a Track Chair for “Power Systems” at the 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2013, in Vienna, Austria), a Technical Program Committee Member of the 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Energy Systems “Managing the Complexity in Energy Systems” (IWIES 2013, in Vienna, Austria). She was plenary speaker at International Conference of Energy and Water, September 25-27, 2013, Luanda, Angola with the tutorial: "Standards for smart grids with emphasis on their realization in remote and rural areas" (invitation of Ministry of Energy and Water of Angola). She has been a Member of Scientific Committee of International Conference on Renewable Energy for Developing Countries (REDEC’14 and REDEC'16) in Beirut, Lebanon. She has been a Program Committee member of IEEE IWIES 2014, a Program Committee member of International Symposium on Environment Friendly Energies and Applications, (EFEA 2014 at Supmeca Campus in Paris). She was a Co-Chair of the session MoB8 "Power Converters, Control, and Energy Management for Distributed Generation at International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE2014) in Istanbul, Turkey. She has been a Track Chair for Power Electronics of ISIE 2015 in Porto Alegre, Brasil, for Power Systems of IEEE IECON2015 in Yokohama and for Power Systems of IECON2016 in Florence, Italy. She has been Treasurers at 2016 Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. In 2016 she has been elected Chair of IEEE-IES Renewable Energy Systems Technical Committee. Currently she is a Track Chair for Power Systems of the 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2017, Oct. 29 - Nov. 1, 2017, Beijing, Cina). She has been visiting professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in 2014, 2015 and 2016. She held tutorials at HIT and at Bohai University, Jinzhou Shi, Cina. In 2016 she held the summer course in Electrotechnics at HIT. In 2007 Concettina Buccella has been a Co-Founder of DigiPower Ltd., a University of L’Aquila spin-off, and operating in the field of ndustrial electronics, power systems, smart grids, modeling, electromagnetic compatibility and since 2012 she has been the C.E.O. Concettina Buccella has been a co-recipient of the 2012 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Transaction Industry Information for the paper: “Smart Grid Technologies: Communication Technologies and Standards”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 7, N. 4, pp. 529 - 539, Nov. 2011. (authors: V. C. Gungor, D. Sahin, T. Kocak, S. Ergüt, C. Buccella, C. Cecati, G. P. Hancke) and a co - recipient of the 2013 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions Industry Informatics for the paper: “Digital Control of Power Converters - A Survey ”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 8, N. 3, pp. 437-447, Aug. 2012. (authors: C. Buccella, C. Cecati, H. Latafat).

Her research interests deal with smart grids, power converters modulation techniques, renewable energy management, analytical and numerical modeling, electromagnetic compatibility, controlled active shields, power line communications, models of biological systems with particular attention to the human eye, applications of neural networks and wavelet transform.

Giovanni Pau is a professor at Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Kore University of Enna, Italy. Prof. Pau received his Bachelor degree in Telematic Engineering from University of Catania, Italy; and both his Master’s degree (cum Laude) in Telematic Engineering and PhD from Kore University of Enna, Italy. Prof. Pau is the author/co–author of more than 35 refereed articles published in journals and conferences proceedings. He is an Associate Member of the IEEE (Italy Section) and has been involved in the organization of several international conferences as session co-chair and technical program committee member. Prof. Pau serves/served as a leading Guest Editor in special issue of several international journals and is an editorial board member as Associate Editor of Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier), Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Hindawi) and Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (Springer). His research interests include Wireless Sensor Networks, home automation, fuzzy logic, Internet of Things and real-time systems.

Research Interests are wired and wireless telecommunications networks; wireless sensor networks (WSN); approaches for energy management in WSN; soft computing techniques (fuzzy logic, neural networks); real-time systems; scheduling techniques; IT approaches applied to the control of aircraft

Professor Shane Xie joined the University of Leeds as Chair in Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2017- ). He received his BE in Control Engineering, M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Mechatronics Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China, in 1992, 1995, and 1998, respectively. He was a Research Associate (1998-1999) and a FoRST (Foundation for Research, Science and Technology) Postdoctoral Fellow (1999-2002) at the University of Canterbury and was awarded a second PhD in Mechanical Engineering. He worked in the University of Auckland, New Zealand as Lecturer (2003-2005), Senior Lecturer (2006-2009), Associate Professor (2010-2011) and Chair Professor (2011-2017), in Mechatronics Engineering.

Prof Xie's research is in the areas of advanced mechatronics and robotics in medicine and high value industries. His principal research interest is in the development of new robotic technologies for a wide range of applications ranging from rehabilitation, medical surgery, and personal assistance to industrial applications. His research approach is to use a combination of mathematical modelling techniques, mechatronic methods, and experimental measurements to better understand human systems, design smart and robust robotic devices and automatically control them interacting with human.

Dr. Sotirios Ziavras is the Associate Provost for Graduate Studies and the Dean of the Graduate Faculty at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He is also a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a joint appointment in Computer Science, as well as the Director of CAPPL (Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing Laboratory). He received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece and the D.Sc. in Computer Science from George Washington University (GWU). He was with the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1988 to 1989. He was a visiting Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia in Spring 1990. He joined NJIT in Fall 1990 as an Assistant Professor. He has received several honors such as an award from the Hellenic Republic for his academic performance at NTUA, an industry-funded Distinguished assistantship at GWU, the NJIT Excellence in Teaching Award for Graduate Education, and the Richard E. Merwin fellowship at GWU. He has published more than 170 papers, and did early work on chip multiprocessors embedded in FPGAs for data-intensive computing and power-grid applications. His main research interests are multicore processors, reconfigurable computing, hardware accelerators, parallel processing, wireless sensor networks and embedded computing.

His main research interests are multicore processors, reconfigurable computing, hardware accelerators, parallel processing, wireless sensor networks and embedded computing

Currently fellows for ASME, ASCE, HKIE and ISEAM, Ir Professor Lim received a first degree from University of Technology of Malaysia, M.Eng. and PhD from National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological Univ., respectively. Prior to joining CityU, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at The University of Queensland and The University of Hong Kong. Professor Lim is also a visiting professor at various universities including the University of Western Sydney, Dalian University of Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, etc. He has expertise in vibration of plate and shell structures, dynamics of smart piezoelectric structures, nanomechanics and symplectic elasticity. He is one of the Editors for Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Associate Editor (Asia-Pacific Region) for Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies, Associate Editor for International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, subject editor for Applied Mathematical Modeling, etc. and also on the editorial board of a few other international journals. He has published one very well-selling title in Engineering Mechanics entitled “Symplectic Elasticity”, co-authored with W.A. Yao and W.X. Zhong, as recorded in April 2010 by the publisher, World Scientific. He has published more than 230 international journal papers, accumulated more than 3200 independent citations, and one of the papers was granted the IJSS 2004-2008 most cited article award. He was also awarded Top Referees in 2009, Proceedings A, The Royal Society. Professor Lim is also a registered professional engineer (RPE) in Hong Kong.

Vibration, theory of plates and shells, nonlinear dynamics, structural dynamics, smart materials, nonlocal thoery in nanomechanics, symplectic elasticity.

Dr. Aghdam is Professor of Solid Mechanics and Director of Research Department at Amirkabir University of Technology, (Tehran Polytechnic). He received his BSc and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Tech. and Amirkabir University of Tech., respectively. He continued his study in micromechanics of composites materials in University of Bristol, UK (1996 – 1999). Since then, he has been involved in various mechanical engineering research collaborations including computational mechanics, micromechanics and multiscale modeling of composites and smart materials, damage mechanics of composites, vibration/buckling/post buckling of nanostructures and additively manufactured porous biomaterials. His research group has published several book chapters and more than 220 articles in well-known peer-reviewed journals and international conferences.

Composite Materials (Micro and Macro-mechanics); Plates and shells; Finite element and computational mechanics.

Yun Li is currently a Professor at Dongguan University of Technology, China. He received his PhD in parallel computing and control from University of Strathclyde, UK, in 1990. During 1989 and 1990, he was with UK National Engineering Laboratory, East Kilbride, and Industrial Systems and Control Ltd, Glasgow. He joined the University of Glasgow as Lecturer in 1991 and served as Founding Director of University of Glasgow Singapore during 2011-2013. He developed one of the world’s first 30 EC course in 1995 and the popular online interactive courseware GA Demo in 1997. In 1998, he established and chaired both the IEEE Computer-Aided Control System Design Evolutionary Computation Working Group and the European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing (EvoNet) Workgroup on Systems, Control, and Drives for Industry. He has over 200 publications, one of which is elected by Thomson Reuters to “Research Front in Computer Science”, one to “Research Front in Engineering”, four to “Essential Science Indicators” (ESI), and two have been noted the most popular in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and the most cited in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics – Part B: Cybernetics since their publications in 2005 and 2009, respectively. Professor Li is a Chartered Engineer in the UK and is currently an Associated Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and Guest Editor of Smart Design, Smart Manufacture and Industry 4.0 Special Issue for Energies.

Computer-Aided Design (CAD), machine invention, systems of computation akin to the human being.

Professor Jacek Przybylski is a specialist in applied mechanics. At the early stages of his work for the CUT his scholarly research interests included the reliability theory of mechanical objects and the fatigue theory. Over the last twenty-five years he has been mainly concerned with the stability and vibration of mechanical systems. During that period he has published his doctoral and postdoctoral theses and many technical papers and articles. He has also been conducting research into other subject areas, such as the theoretical and experimental investigations of vibration of the divergence-pseud of lutter systems, computer aided design of mobile cranes and resonance boxes of musical instruments as well as the interaction problems between the supports of truck cranes and the ground of particular rheological properties. His work in the above areas has been published in a large number of various national and international highly reputable journals. Moreover, as an author and co-author, he has published five research monographs in the field. Professor's didactic activities cover lectures, classes, workshops, seminars and laboratory classes on mechanics, mechanics of materials, theory of vibrations, and computer aided design. He is the author of curriculum-oriented textbooks, laboratory instructions and concepts of many laboratory and didactic stands for graduate and postgraduate students at various stages of higher education. Other activities include being a supervisor who mentors postgraduate students preparing for their PhD examinations. For his scientific and didactic activities Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education has awarded him two individual and three collective prizes. He has also been awarded twelve prizes by the Rector of CUT.

Research interests included the reliability theory of mechanical objects and the fatigue theory

Dr. Batra is the Clifton C. Garvin professor of engineering science and mechanics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA. He is a world- recognized leader in applied mechanics and has extensively contributed to the literature in Smart structures/Piezoelectric materials, Functionally Gradient Materials, Material failure at high strain rates, Penetration & Impact Problems, and Molecular Mechanics/Dynamics Simulations of Nanostructures. Batra’s team has published more than 410 papers in peer-reviewed journals that have been cited more than 14,000 times with an h-index of 63 (Google Scholar). His graduate level textbook “Elements of Continuum Mechanics” (AIAA, 2006) extensively covers the development of material models. In 1995 Batra co-founded the journal Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, which he continues to co-edit. He has given numerous plenary/memorial lectures. His honors include the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Award for Senior Scientists (1992), the International Society of Computational Engineering Science’s Eric Reissner Medal (2000), Honorary D.Sc. degree from Thapar University (2006), Society of Engineering Science’s Engineering Science Medal (2009), the Lee Hsun Research Award (2009) from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Metals Research, an ASME Honorary Member Award (2015), the ASME Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award (2016), and numerous faculty and alumni awards. He is a Fellow of the ASME, U.S. Association of Computational Mechanics, the Society of Engineering Sciences (where he served as vice president (1995) and president (1996)), the American Society for Engineering Education, and the American Academy of Mechanics.

Multiscale Analysis of Multi physics Problems involving Material and Geometric Nonlinearities, Nano mechanics, Dynamic Failure under Shock Loads, Smart Structures, and Functionally Graded Materials.

Ben M. Chen is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the National University of Singapore, where he is currently a Professor and Provost's Chair. He is also serving as the Director of Control, Intelligent Systems and Robotics Area. His current research interests are in robust control, systems theory, control applications, the development of UAV helicopter systems, and financial market modeling.Dr. Chen is an IEEE Fellow. He is the author/co-author of 10 research monographs including H2 Optimal Control (Prentice Hall, 1995), Robust and H Control (Springer, 2000), Hard Disk Drive Servo Systems (Springer, 1st Edition, 2002; 2nd Edition, 2006), Linear Systems Theory (Birkhäuser, 2004), Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems (Springer, 2011), and Stock Market Modeling and Forecasting (Springer, 2013). He had served on the editorial boards of a number of journals including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Systems & Control Letters, and Automatica. He currently serves as an Editor-in-Chief of Unmanned Systems and a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Control Theory & Technology.

Linear Systems Theory, Robust and Optimal Control Theory, Nonlinear Control and Applications, Control Applications in HDD Servo Systems, Development of UAV Systems, Modeling of Financial Markets.

XiaoQi Chen is Professor of Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Canterbury. He obtained his B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from South China University of Technology in 1984. As a recipient of China-UK Technical Co-Operation Award, he completed his MSc study in Materials Technology, Brunel University (1985 – 1986), and PhD study in robotics, University of Liverpool (1986 – 1989). He was Research Fellow at Durham University (1989-1990) and Brunel University (1990-1992), and Senior Scientist in Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (1992-2006). He is an elected Fellow of Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ); elected Fellow of Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME

Advanced materials processing, additive manufacturing, mechatronic systems, assistive robotics, autonomous systems, and manufacturing automation

Dr. L. Cheng received his BSc degree in Applied Mechanics from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1984, DEA and Ph.D degrees from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Lyon (INSA-Lyon), France in 1986 and 1989, respectively. After two years in Sherbrooke University, Canada, he started his academic career in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Laval University, Canada in 1992, rising from an assistant professor to Associate/Full Professor, before joining the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a Professor in 2000. He became a Chair Professor in 2005 and the Head of Department from 2011 to 2014. He was also Director of Consortium for Sound and Vibration Research (CSVR). Dr. Cheng’s research interests mainly include sound and vibration, structural health monitoring, smart material/structure and fluid-structure interaction. He published extensively, with over 350 publications including book/book chapters and journal/conference papers, receiving over 3000 citations. He was an elected fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustical Society of China, IMechE and the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Acoustical Society of America, Associate Editor of Structural Health Monitoring: an International Journal, and an editorial board member of the International Journal of Applied Mechanics, ACTA ACUSTICA Sinica, Chinese Journal of Acoustics as well as four other international journals. Dr. Cheng served as the Chair/Co-Chair and a scientific committee member for over 30 times in various international conferences, including the general Chair of the 46th International Congress on Noise Control Engineering (Inter-noise) and Chair of 14th Asia Pacific Vibration Conference. He also delivered plenary/keynote talks (over 15 times) in various international conferences, including the most prestigious ICSV23 and APVC15.

Noise and vibration control; Fluid-structure interaction; Damage detection and smart material/structure/products

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 currently the Associate Dean (Student Affairs), Faculty of Engineering. His research has led to publications of over 180 technical papers in international journals and conference proceedings, 17 patents in US, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea. He was the Conference Chair for the 20th International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies (ICAST 2009). He is the Conference Chair of Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems, SPIE Smart Structures/NDE in 2014 and 2015. He received the T A Stewart-Dyer/F H Trevithick Prize 2005, awarded by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). In 2008, he received the Best Paper Award in Structures from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He also received the Best Paper Award in Automation in the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, and the Best Conference Paper Award in the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation. Dr. Liao currently serves as an Associate Editor for Mechatronics, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, as well as Smart Materials and Structures. Dr. Liao is a Fellow of ASME, HKIE, and IOP.

Smart Materials and Structures, Energy Harvesting, Vibration Control, Mechatronics, Precision Machinery, Nanotechnology, and Medical Devices

Yun Li is currently a Professor at Dongguan University of Technology, China. He received his PhD in parallel computing and control from University of Strathclyde, UK, in 1990. During 1989 and 1990, he was with UK National Engineering Laboratory, East Kilbride, and Industrial Systems and Control Ltd, Glasgow. He joined the University of Glasgow as Lecturer in 1991 and served as Founding Director of University of Glasgow Singapore during 2011-2013. He developed one of the world’s first 30 EC course in 1995 and the popular online interactive courseware GA Demo in 1997. In 1998, he established and chaired both the IEEE Computer-Aided Control System Design Evolutionary Computation Working Group and the European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing (EvoNet) Workgroup on Systems, Control, and Drives for Industry. He has over 200 publications, one of which is elected by Thomson Reuters to “Research Front in Computer Science”, one to “Research Front in Engineering”, four to “Essential Science Indicators” (ESI), and two have been noted the most popular in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and the most cited in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics – Part B: Cybernetics since their publications in 2005 and 2009, respectively. Professor Li is a Chartered Engineer in the UK and is currently an Associated Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and Guest Editor of Smart Design, Smart Manufacture and Industry 4.0 Special Issue for Energies.

Computer-Aided Design, machine invention, systems of computation akin to the human being