Keynote Speaker Ⅰ
Prof. Shugen Ma
IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow, JSME Fellow, Foreign Fellow of the EAJ
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China
Biography: Professor Shugen Ma (IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow, JSME Fellow, Foreign Fellow of the EAJ) received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering Science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Before he joined HKUST (GZ), he was a professor at Ritsumeikan University and a visiting professor at John Hopkins University, Shenyang Institute of Automation of CAS, Tianjin University, and Harbin Institute of Technology, respectively. He has published 520+ papers in major journals and conference proceedings, developed 50+ novel robot systems with 80+ patents, and supervised 44 doctoral students to graduation. Professor Ma’s research interests include but are not limited to the design and control of environment-adaptive robots, amphibious robots, field robotics, and biologically inspired robotics. Prof. Ma is a Professor Emeritus of Ritsumeikan University, a Foreign Fellow of the Engineering Academy of Japan, and the general chair of IROS 2022 (a top robotics conference). He also founded the ROBIO conference in 2004 and served as the general chair of ROBIO 2004, ROBIO 2010, and ROBIO 2016. He has also been featured in the list of the world’s top 2% of scientists published by Stanford University.