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CCC&SICE2015 Plenary Speakers |
 Youxian Sun is a Professor at Zhejiang University since 1988. From 1984 to 1987, he was awarded with Humboldt Fellowship to be a visiting professor at Stuttgart University, Germany. Currently, he is Director of Institute of Industrial Process Control and Director of National Engineering Research Center of
Industrial Automation. He also serves Vice-president of China Instrument and Control Society. He previously served as Vice-chairman of IFAC Pulp and Paper Committee, and President of Chinese Association of Automation. For well over 20 years, he played a key leadership role in developing control and automation technology in paper and pulp, oil refinery, chemical and bio-pharmaceutical industries in China.
He has made basic contributions to the theory of automatic control, among which he discovered effective solutions to optimal control, robust control problems of production lines, control and scheduling co-design for networked control systems. For his distinguished contributions to automatic control technology and industrial automation, he was elected as Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1995. Since 1995, he was awarded once the First Grade and twice the Second Grade National Prize for Progress in Science and Technology. He has won the Prize for Scientific and Technology Progress from Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation and the Outstanding Award for Contribution to Science and Technology of Zhejiang Province both in 2007. He has authored, co-authored 18 books and published more than 500 papers. He is a Fellow of IFAC.
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 Richard M. Murray received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology in 1985 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He is currently the Thomas
E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control & Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering at Caltech.
Murray's research is in the application of feedback and control to networked systems, with applications in biology and autonomy. Current projects include specification, design and synthesis of control protocols for networked control systems and analysis and design of biomolecular feedback systems for synthetic biology. He is a fellow of IEEE, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, USA.
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 Maria Elena Valcher received the Master Degree (cum laude) in Electronic Engineering (1991) and the Ph.D. Degree in Systems Engineering (1995) both from the University of Padova (Italy). Since January 2005 she is Full Professor of Control Theory at the University of Padova.
She is author/co-author of 70 journal papers, and 90 conference papers. Her research interests include multidimensional systems theory, behavior theory, fault detection and observer design, Boolean control networks, switched systems and positive systems.
She served in the Organizing Committees and in the Program Committees of several conferences. She was CDC 2014 Registration Chair, Paradise Island (Bahamas), and CDC 2012 Program Chair, Maui (Hawaii). She was in the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions
on Automatic Control (1999-2002), Systems and Control Letters (2004-2010), Automatica (2006-2013), and she is currently in the Editorial Boards of Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing (2004-today), SIAM J. on Control and Optimization (2012-today), the European Journal of Control (2103-today) and IEEE Access (2014-now). She was Vice President Member Activities of the CSS (2006-2007); Vice President Conference Activities of the CSS (2008-2010). She is the 2014 President-Elect of the IEEE CSS. She was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE CSS 2010-2013. She received the 2011 IEEE CSS Distinguished Member Award and she is an IEEE Fellow.
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 P. R. Kumar obtained his B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) from I.I.T. Madras in 1973, and the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University, St. Louis, in 1975 and 1977, respectively. From 1977-84 he was a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. From 1985-2011 he was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois. Currently he is at Texas A&M University, where he holds the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Engineering.
Kumar has worked on problems in game theory, adaptive control, stochastic systems, simulated annealing, neural networks, machine learning, queueing networks, manufacturing systems, scheduling, wafer fabrication plants and information theory. His research is currently focused on energy systems, wireless networks, secure networking, automated transportation, and cyberphysical systems.
Kumar is a member of the National Academy of Engineering of the USA, and a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule) in Zurich. He received the Outstanding Contribution Award of ACM SIGMOBILE, the IEEE Field Award for Control Systems, the Donald P. Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council, and the Fred W. Ellersick Prize of the IEEE Communications Society. He is an ACM Fellow and a Fellow of IEEE. He was
a Guest Chair Professor and Leader of the Guest Chair Professor Group on Wireless Communication and Networking at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is an Honorary Professor at IIT Hyderabad. He is a D. J. Gandhi Distinguished Visiting Professor at IIT Bombay. He was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras, the Alumni Achievement Award from Washington University in St. Louis, and the Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award from the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois.
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 Hirofumi Akagi received the Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1979. He is currently Full Professor in the department of electrical and electronic engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Prior to it, he was working for Nagaoka University of Technology and Okayama University as Assistant, Associate and Full Professors.
His research interests include power conversion systems and their applications to industry, transportation, and utility. He has authored and coauthored more than 120 IEEE Transactions papers. The total citation index for all his papers in Google Scholar is more than 25,000 times with an h-index of 70.
Dr. Akagi received six IEEE Transactions Prize Paper Awards. He is the recipient of the 2001 IEEE Power Electronics Society William E. Newell Award, the 2004 IEEE Industry Applications Society Outstanding Achievement Award, the 2008 IEEE Richard H. Kaufmann Technical Field Award, the 2012 IEEE Power & Energy Society Nari Hingorani Custom Power Award, and the 2014 EPE Outstanding Service Award. He was elected as
an IEEE Fellow in 1996 and as IEEE PELS and IAS Distinguished Lecturers from Jan. 1998 to Dec. 1999. Dr. Akagi served as the President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society from Jan. 2007 to Dec. 2008 for two years. Since January 2014, he has been serving as the IEEE Division II Director-Elect.
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 Yongchun Xie graduated from the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University in 1989, and received the master degree and Ph. D. degree in automatic control theory and application from China Academy of Space Technology, respectively, in 1991 and 1994. She was a Center of Excellence foreign researcher from 1998 to 1999 in Japanese Institute of Space and Astronautical Science. She is currently Vice Director of science and technology committee of Beijing Institute of Control Engineering and senior chief researcher of China Academy of Space Technology.
Professor Yongchun Xie has long been engaged in the study of characteristic model based adaptive control method. In theory she first proved the robust stability of the golden section adaptive controller and broke through the challenge in showing the robustness of all-coefficient adaptive control method. In practical engineering, she presented the detailed control scheme of rendezvous and docking for Shenzhou spacecraft, including a new characteristic model based phase plane adaptive control method, which has been successfully
applied to the rendezvous and docking tasks of Shenzhou-8, Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 with Tiangong-1. She has coauthored one book and authored/coauthored more than one hundred papers. She has won two ministerial First Prize of Science and Technology Progress. In 2011 and 2012 she was named as "the Prominent Contributor for China Manned Space Engineering ", "2011 Annual Figure in Chinese Automation Field" and "2011 China Economic Annual Woman". In 2013 she was awarded the
"2012 Annual China Space Foundation Award". Professor Yongchun Xie is a member of the council of Chinese Association of Automation, and editorial board member for Journal of Astronautics, and Aerospace Control and Applications.
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 Satoshi Tadokoro received the B. E. degree in precision machinery engineering in 1982, the M. E. degree in 1984 from the University of Tokyo, and the D. E. degree in 1991. He was an associate professor of Kobe University in 1993-2005, and has been a professor of Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS), Tohoku University since 2005, and was a Deputy Dean in 2012-2013 and Vice Dean in 2014. In 2012, he joined newly established International Research Institute of Disaster Sciences in Tohoku University.
He was a project leader of MEXT DDT Project on rescue robotics in 2002-2007 having contribution of more than 100 professors nationwide, and NEDO Project that developed a rescue robot Quince which is being used at the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident since June 2011. Since 2014, he is a project manager of Japan Government's ImPACT Project. He established RoboCupRescue in 1999, TC on Rescue Engineering of SICE in 2000 (the first chair), IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) TC on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics in 2001 (the first co-chair), and International Rescue System Institute (IRS) in 2002. He was a Board Member of Robotics Society of Japan in 2002-2003, IEEE RAS Japan Chapter Chair in 2003-2005, a Trustee of The RoboCup Federation in 2005-2010, a
Board Member of Society of Instrument and Control Engineers in 2007-2008, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) AdCom Member in 2008-2010, Chair of JSME Robotics Mechatronics Division (RMD) in 2009, He is President of International Rescue System Institute, and IEEE RAS Vice President for Technical Activities in 2012-2014, and IEEE RAS President-Elect in 2014-2015. He will be IEEE RAS President in 2016-2017. He received IEEE Fellow in 2009, JSME Fellow in 2005, SICE
Fellow in 2011, and RSJ Fellow in 2012, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Service Award, and Robotics Society of Japan Achievement Award in 2013, METI The Robot Award 2008, FDMA Commissioner Highest Award in 2008, JSME Funai Award in 2007, Best Book Author Award from AEM Society in 2006, JSME Robotics and Mechatronics Award in 2011, JSME Robotics and Mechatronics Academic Achievement Award in 2005, etc. He published Rescue Robotics from Springer,
RoboCupRescue from Kyoritsu Publ., etc.
His research interest is in rescue robotics, virtual reality and new actuators.
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