Keynote Speakers

 

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.

Prof. Maria Pia Fanti (IEEE Fellow), Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy

Biography: Maria Pia Fanti (IEEE Fellow and Fellow of the Asia-Pacific AIA) received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 1983. She was a visiting researcher at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, New York, in 1999. Since 1983, she has been with the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the Polytechnic of Bari, Italy, where she is currently a Full Professor of system and control engineering and Chair of the Laboratory of Automation and Control. Her research interests include modeling and control of complex systems, intelligent transportation systems, smart logistics; Petri nets; consensus protocols; fault detection. Prof. Fanti has published more than +310 papers and two textbooks on her research topics. She was senior editor of the IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering and member at large of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. Currently, she is Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, member of the AdCom of the IEEE Robotics and Automaton Society, and chair of the Technical Committee on Automation in Logistics of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Prof. Fanti was General Chair of the 2011 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics and the 2019 Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference.

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