• Prof. Toshio FUKUDA, Nagoya University, Japan (Director, IEEE Region-10) - Guest of Honour
• Prof. Hideki Hashimoto, Chuo University, Japan
• Prof. Okyay Kaynak, Harbin Institute of Technology, and Harbin, ChinaBogazici University, Turkey
• Prof. S. C. Srivastava, Dy. Director, IIT Kanpur, India
• Prof. S. Manjhi, IIT Guwahati, India
• Prof. Saraju Mohanty, University of North Texas, USA

(Some more to be added soon...)

Brief C.V. of KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Prof. Toshio FUKUDA

Toshio Fukuda received the B.A. degree from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1971, and the M.S and Dr. Eng. from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1973 and 1977, respectively. In 1977, he joined the National Mechanical Engineering Laboratory. In 1982, he joined the Science University of Tokyo, Japan, and then joined Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in 1989. He was Director of Center for Micro-Nano Mechatronics and Professor of Department of Micro-Nano Systems Engineering at Nagoya University, where he was mainly involved in the research fields of intelligent robotic and mechatronic system, cellular robotic system, and micro- and nano-robotic system. He was the Russell Springer Chaired Professor at UC Berkeley, Distinguished Professor, Seoul National University, and many other universities. Currently, He is Professor Emeritus Nagoya University, Visiting Professor Institute for Advanced Research Nagoya University, Professor Meijo University, Professor Beijing Institute of Technology.

Dr. Fukuda is IEEE Region 10 Director (2013-2014) and served President of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (1998-1999), Director of the IEEE Division X, Systems and Control (2001- 2002), and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE / ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2000-2002). He was President of IEEE Nanotechnology Council (2002-2003, 2005) and President of SOFT (Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics) (2003-2005). He was elected as a member of Science Council of Japan (2008-). He received the IEEE Eugene Mittelmann Award (1997), IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), Humboldt Research Prize (2002), IEEE Robotics and Automation Pioneer Award (2004), IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Service Award (2005), Award from Ministry of Education and Science in Japan (2005). IEEE Nanotechnology Council Distinguished service award (2007). Best Googol Application paper awards from IEEE Trans. Automation Science and Engineering (2007). Best papers awards from RSJ (2004) and SICE (2007), Special Funai Award from JSME (2008), 2009 George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation (2009), IEEE Robotics and Automation Technical Field Award (2010), ROBOMECH Award 2010 (2010), Distinguished Service Award, The Robotics Society of Japan (2010), The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers Technical Field Award (2010), JSME Medal for Distinguished Engineers/ Outstanding Paper (2011), IROS Harashima Award for Innovative Technologies (2011), Friendship Award of Liaoning Province PR China (2012), IEEE Fellow (1995), SICE Fellow (1995), JSME Fellow (2001), RSJ Fellow (2004), Honorary Doctor of Aalto University School of Science and Technology (2010).

Title of the talk: Mutli-scale Robotics
Abstract of the Presentation: This talk is an overview of the Multi-scale robotics, based on the Cellular Robotics System, which is the basic concept of the emergency of intelligence in the multi-scale way from Cell Level to the Organizational Level, proposed 30 years ago. It consists how the system can be structured from the individual to the group/society levels in analogy with the biological system. It covers with the wide range of challenging topics:

1. 1. Individual robot level, Brachiation Robots and Multi-locomotion robots, medical robotics and simulator,
2. 2. Cooperation and competition of the multiple robotics system
3. 3. Distributed autonomous robotic system
4. 4. Micro and nano robotics system
5. 5. Bio analysis and synthesis : bio-robotics system

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Prof. Okyay Kaynak

Okyay Kaynak received the B.Sc. degree with first class honors and Ph.D. degrees in electronic and electrical engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK, in 1969 and 1972 respectively.

From 1972 to 1979, he held various positions within the industry that included 3.5 years in Saudi Arabia, working as a project engineer. In 1979, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, where he is presently a Full Professor. Currently, he is the UNESCO Chair on Mechatronics and the Director of Mechatronics Research and Application Centre. He has hold long-term (near to or more than a year) Visiting Professor/Scholar positions at various institutions in Japan, Germany, U.S. and Singapore. His current research interests are in the fields of intelligent control and mechatronics. He has authored three books and edited five and authored or coauthored more than 400 papers that have appeared in various journals, books and conference proceedings.

Dr. Kaynak is a fellow of IEEE. He is or has served on the Editorial or Advisory Boards of a number of scholarly journals. Currently he is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and an Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal, and IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics. He has recently been elected as the incoming EiC of IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics.

Dr. Kaynak is active in internationally organizations, has served on many committees of IEEE and was the president of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society during 2002-2003. He received IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000), IEEE/IES Anthony J. Hornfeck Service Award (2005) and IEEE/IES Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelman Achievement Award (2011). He has recently been named as an 1000 Talent (Qian Ren) Program Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology China.

Title of the talk: CARE in 21st Century
Abstract of the Presentation: The main areas of CARE 2013, i.e. Control, Automation, Robotics and Embedded Systems, all fall in the broader field of mechatronics, the development of which has gone through three stages. The first stage corresponds to the years around the introduction of the word. During this stage, technologies used in mechatronic systems developed rather independently of each other and individually. With the start of the eighties, a synergistic integration of different technologies started taking place, the notable example being in optoelectronics. The concept of hardware/software co-design also started in these years. The third (and the last?) stage can also be considered as the start of the mechatronics age and starts with the early nineties. The most notable aspect of the third stage is the increased use information technology and computational intelligence in mechatronic products and systems. It is now possible to have man¬–made systems that exhibit an ability to reason, learn from experience and make rational decisions without human intervention. It is due to this development that we can now talk about Machine Intelligence Quotient (MIQ). In this context, mechatronics is closely related to semiotics.

After a consideration of the above stated developments, the presentation considers the status of CARE in the information age and a discussion is given on how the boundaries that separate it from other technologies are eroding. Finally the state-of-art reached in CARE in the form of intelligent systems is overviewed with examples from different industries and a perspective on the future is given.

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Prof. S. C. Srivastava

Suresh C. Srivastava received B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1976 from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. He worked at Engineers India Limited New Delhi, a consultancy organization, during Nov.1976 - Nov.1988 in its Project Engineering and Engineering Technology Development divisions. Since November 1988, he is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur, where he became ‘Professor’ in Dec. 1995. He also served as Head of Electrical Engineering Department during Jan. 2000 to Dec. 2002, Dean of Research and Development during Jan. 2005 to Jan. 2008 and currently holding the position of Deputy Director at IIT Kanpur. During August 2008-July 2009, he was as a ‘Visiting Research Professor’ in the ECE Department at Mississippi State University, USA and also as a Faculty member at Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand during 1996-97, on leave from IIT Kanpur. He also held ‘P.K. Kelkar Chair Professor’ position at IIT Kanpur.

He has supervised 20 Ph.D. and 57 Masters theses in the Power Systems area. He has published about 230 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include Power System Stability and Security Analysis, Synchrophasor Applications, Power System Restructuring and AC/DC Microgrid. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), Institution of Engineers (India) & IETE (India), and Senior member of the IEEE. He has served in the governing council/Board of CPRI and few Engineering Institutes and also member of several expert/advisory committees formed by DST, Ministry of Power, PGCIL, UPERC and CERC. Last year, he received IEEE PES ‘Outstanding Engineer Award 2012’ from PES/IAS Chapter, IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section and ‘Outstanding Academician Award’ during National Power Systems Conference in December 2012.

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Prof. Saraju Mohanty

Prof. Saraju Mohanty earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of South Florida in 2003. He obtained a Masters degree in Systems Science and Automation from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1999, and Bachelors degree (Honors) in Electrical Engineering from Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, India in 1995. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA. He is the director of NanoSystem Design Laboratory (NSDL) at UNT. His research is in "Low-Power High-Performance Nanoelectronics". His research is funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC). He is an author of 160+ peer-reviewed journal and conference publications and 2 books. His first book titled “Low Power High Level Synthesis for Nanoscale CMOS Circuits” was published by Springer in June 2008. His publications are well-received by the world-wide peers with a total of 1500+ citations resulting in an H-index of 21 and i10-index of 42 (from Google Scholar). He is an inventor of 2 US patents. He has advised/co-advised 24 dissertations and theses. Six of these advisees have received outstanding students awards at UNT. The students are very-well placed in industry and academia. He has received Honors Day recognition as an inspirational faculty at the UNT for multiple years. He serves on the organizing and program committee of several international conferences. He was a general chair for IEEE-CS Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) 2012. He serves on the editorial board of several international journals. He has served as a guest editor for many journals including ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC) titled “New Circuit and Architecture Level Solutions for Multidiscipline Systems", in August 2012. He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM.

Title of the talk: DFX for Nanoelectronic Embedded Systems
Abstract of the Presentation: The consumer electronics such as implantable systems, digital cameras, and multimedia processors are embedded systems. The hardware components of which are at presented realized using a nanoelectronic technology. The nanoelectronic embedded systems have several design challenges of multiple forms including process variation, leakage power dissipation, and security. Design for excellence (DFX) is an approach for handling one or more than one of these nanoelectronic embedded system design challenges. DFX being adopted to addresses these issues such that high-yield, low-cost consumer electronic is made possible and reach wider people of the society. This talk will addressed the DFX with selected issues and solutions.