Name: Mohammed Chadli
Affiliation: University Paris-Saclay Evry, IBISC Lab., France
Biography: Mohammed Chadli received his M.Sc (DEA) from the Engineering School INSA-Lyon (France, 1999) and from “Ecole Normale Sup.” (Mohammedia, Morocco), the Ph.D. thesis in Automatic Control from the University of Lorraine (UL), CRAN-Nancy in 2002. He was Lecturer and Assistant Professor at the “Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine” (UL, 2000-2004). Since 2004, he was Associate Professor at the University of Picardie and is currently a Full Professor at the University Paris-Saclay Evry, IBISC Lab., France. He was a visiting professorship at the TUO-Ostrava (Czech Rep.), UiA (Norway), SMU-Shanghai (2014-2017), NUAA-Nanjing (2018-2024), and the University of Naples Federico II (Italy, 2019).
Dr. Chadli’s research interests include filtering and control problems (FDI, FTC) and applications to vehicle systems, intelligence systems, network systems, and cyber-physical systems. He is the author of books and book chapters (Wiley, Springer, Hermes), numerous articles published in international refereed journals and conference proceedings.
Dr. Chadli is a senior member of IEEE. He is on the editorial board (Editor, Associate Editor) of several international journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Automatica, the IET Control Theory and Applications, the Franklin Institute Journal, Asian Journal of Control … and was a Guest Editor for Special Issues in international journals and the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Sciences and Technologies (Univ Evry Paris-Saclay). He now serves as the Chair of the IEEE France Section Control Systems Society Chapter, and listed in “100 000 Leading Scientists in the World”.
Name: Longchuan Li
Affiliation: Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
Biography: Longchuan Li received his Ph.D. degree from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2019. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher and later as an assistant professor at Ritsumeikan University from 2019 to 2022. In 2021, he was awarded a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Information Science and Technology at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, where he has been recognized as one of the “100 Young Talents.” His research interests include robot locomotion modeling, morphological computation, and nonlinear dynamics analysis. He has served as a committee member for several international conferences, including IROS 2022.
Name: Darwin Tat Ming LAU
Affiliation: Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China
Biography: Dr. Darwin Tat Ming LAU is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where he joined in 2015. He 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. 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.