Speakers 2025
Keynote Speaker Ⅰ
Prof. Jiansheng Dai
Southern University of Science and Technology, China
IEEE Fellow, ASME Fellow, RSA Fellow, IMechE Fellow and CAA Fellow
Professor Dai is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), Academia Europaea of Sciences Fellow. He is also IEEE Fellow, ASME Fellow, RSA Fellow, IMechE Fellow, CAA Fellow. He is Chair Professor of Mechanisms and Robotics, and is the Editor-in-Chief of international journal Robotica (established in 1983) and Subject Editor of Mechanism and Machine Theory. Pioneering contributions in reconfigurable mechanisms and robots, in origami robots, in ankle rehabilitation robots and in metamorphic robots, he established and lead the field of reconfigurable mechanisms and the sub-field of metamorphic mechanisms in robotics, a concept that bridges the gap between versatile but expensive robots, and efficient but non-flexible machines, and their applications to health, home and manufacture. Recipient of the 2015 ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Award as the 27th recipient since the inception in 1974 and the recipient of the 2020 ASME Machine Design Award as the 58th recipient since the inception in 1958. The citation of the 2020 ASME Machine Design Award is for pioneering contributions in establishing the field of reconfigurable mechanisms and the subfield of metamorphic mechanisms; and for making a lasting impact through research, application, teaching and service that have made it possible to bridge the gap between versatile but expensive robots and efficient but nonflexible machines. Received many other awards with twelve personal awards including the 2010 Overall Supervisory Excellence Award by King’s College London, the 2012 ASME Outstanding Service Award and the 2012 Mechanisms Innovation Award, five Best Journal Paper Awards including the 2018 Crossley Award, seven Best Conference Paper Awards including the 2019 AT Yang Award in Theoretical Kinematics. Elevated by IEEE in 2017 as an IEEE Fellow with citation as ‘for contributions to reconfigurable and metamorphic mechanisms in robotics’.
Keynote Speaker Ⅱ
Prof. Ning Xi
The University of Hong Kong, China
IEEE Fellow
Professor Ning Xi received D.Sc. degree in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA in December 1993. Currently he is the Chair Professor of Robotics and Automation, the Director of Advanced Technologies Institute, and the Head of Department of Data and Systems Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. Before joining the University of Hong Kong, he was a University Distinguished Professor, the John D. Ryder Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of Robotics and Automation Laboratory at Michigan State University in United States. Prof. Xi is a fellow of IEEE. He also served as the President of IEEE Nanotechnology Council (2010-2011) and the President of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (2018). His research interests include robotics, artificial intelligence, manufacturing automation, micro/nano manufacturing, nano-bio technology, sensors, and intelligent control and systems.