Invited Speaker

Prof. Dawei Shi, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Bio: Dawei Shi is currently a Professor with the School of Automaton, Beijing Institute of Technology. He received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering and automaton from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree in control systems from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, in 2014. From 2017 to 2018, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in bioengineering with Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. His research interests include the analysis and design of advanced sampled-data control systems, with applications to biomedical engineering, robotics, and motion systems. Dr. Shi is an Associate Editor/Technical Editor for several international journals, including Control Engineering Practice, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and IEEE Control Systems Letters.

Assoc. Prof. Weiwei Wan, Osaka University, Japan

Bio: Weiwei Wan was an associate professor working at the School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Japan. He is an IEEE senior member, having affiliations with the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and the IEEE System, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He is also a member of RSJ (the Robotics Society of Japan) and JSME (Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers). Weiwei Wan's major interest is smart manufacturing using single or multiple robotic manipulators: Developing and deploying grasping planning, motion planning, and other low level and high level task planning algorithms for next-generation factories. He is also studying visual perception, force control, and learning approaches to make up for the inherent shortages of planning algorithms.

Prof. Xianchang Wang, Jilin University, China

Bio: Dr. Xianchang Wang is a professor at the School of Computer Science, Jilin University, and the director of Chengdu Case Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, and he is a special expert of the National Thousand Talents Program, a special expert of China Overseas Chinese Federation, and a professor at the School of Computer Science, Jilin University. Dr. Xianchang Wang has more than 30 years of experience in basic research, application development and promotion of artificial intelligence at home and abroad. Dr. Wang's research and application areas include intelligent operation and scheduling control systems based on complex real-time rules (e.g., civil aviation), multi-source environment awareness of intelligent robots and unmanned systems, and collaboration and mission planning of unmanned system clusters. Dr. Xianchang Wang has published more than 30 papers in top AI journals and conferences in China and abroad, such as Science China, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and International Artificial Intelligence Quarterly.

Assoc. Prof. LAU Darwin Tat Ming, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Bio: Dr. Darwin Tat Ming LAU received his B. Eng (1st Hons) and B.CS degrees from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2008. He received his Ph.D. degree in the area of robotics in 2014 from the University of Melbourne, Australia. From 2014 to 2015, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France. He joined the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), in October 2015 and is currently an Associate Professor. His research focuses on topics in robot manipulation, particularly related to kinematic and dynamic analysis, design, optimisation and control of novel mechanisms, and human-robot teleoperation, including cable-driven parallel robots and bio-inspired robots. In addition to fundamental research, Dr. LAU also has great interest in the application of novel mechanisms to impactful real-world applications, including building construction (such as robotic brick laying, facade cleaning, painting, foundation works and facade inspection), musculoskeletal robots and wearable assistive devices.