Awards and Professional Activities 

 (1) Services to international committee and journals

·               Co-Editor-in-Chief,                            IEEE Transactions on Industrial

Electronics

·               Member,                                          IEEE Fellow Committee

(Jan 2011- Dec 2013)

·               Distinguished Lecturer,                IEEE Control Systems Society

(Feb 2010 –Feb 2013)

·               Associate Editor,                            Automatica (Feb 2006 - )

·               Associate Editor,                            IEEE Transactions on Industrial

Electronics (May 2013 – Jan 2020 )

·               Associate Editor                              IEEE Control Systems Magazine

(Jan 2009 - 2019)

·               Associate Editor,                            IEEE Transactions on Automatic

Control

(Jan 2000- Dec 2002)

·               Executive Editor-in-Chief,              Journal of  Control and Decision,

TAYLOR & FRANCIS

(Sept 2013 - )

·               Member of the Editorial Board      控制与决策(in Chinese)

 

(2) Awards:

·         Fellow, IEEE (2009)

·         Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Engineering (2020,2021, 2022)

·         Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore

·         Best Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2017

·         Finalist of World's First 10K Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2017 (ICME 2017), 2017

·         IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2005, from Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES)

          [The awards are to recognize achievements that demonstrate outstanding engineering skills which have made a significant contribution to the engineering progress and the quality of life in Singapore. There were four winners in 2005]

·         2007 Best IES Chapter Award (awarded to the IEEE Singapore Industrial Electronics Chapter), from IEEE Industrial Society

 

            [He was the Chair of the IEEE Singapore Industrial Electronics Chapter from Jan 2006 to Dec 2007].

 

(3) Conference Organization

§  General Chair, The 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2023)

 

§  Vice Program Chair, The 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2023)

 

§  General Chair, The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2020)

 

§  Member,  International Advisory Board, The 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2017)

 

§  General Chair, The 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2016)

 

§  Chair, Technical Program Committee, The 20th to 30th Chinese Control and Decision Conference (2008 - 2018 CCDC).

 

§  Chair, Committee for Keynotes and Distinguished Invited Lectures, The 5th to 12th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2010 to ICIEA 2017)

 

§  Chair, Committee for Invited Sessions, The 13th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2014)

 

§  Member of the International Advisory Board, The 37th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Society (IECON 2011).

 

§  Chair for Keynotes and Plenary Panel Sessions, The 12th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2012)

 

§  General Chair, The 11th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2010)

 

§  General Chair, The 4th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2009)

 

§  Chair, Technical Program Committee, The 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2008)

 

§  General Advisor, The 3rd IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA2008)

 

§  Track Chair, Technical Program Committee, The 6th International IEEE Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN’08)

 

§  Member, International Program Committee,13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2008)

 

§  Chair, Technical Program Committee, The 2nd IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA2007)

 

§  Member, International Program Committee, The 16th IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA07)

 

§  Member, International Program Committee, The 1st IEEE Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (IEEE DEST 2007)

 

§  Chair, Technical Program Committee, The 1st IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA2006)

 

§  Chair, International Publicity Committee, The 4th International IEEE Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN’06)

 

§  Member of Technical Program Committee of the 5th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, 2006

 

§  Member, International Program Committee, Intelligent Systems and Computing: Theory and Applications (ISYC 06)

 

§  Member of Technical Program Committee of the 4th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, 2004

 

§  Served in the Technical Program and Publicity Committees of ICARCV 94,96,98,00,02 and ACCV95

 

(4) Services to professional bodies

§  1993                                      Committee Member,          IEEE Singapore Section Control Chapter

§  2006 - 2007,                         Chairman,                            IEEE Singapore Section Industrial Electronics Chapter

§  2009, 1998 – 2002               Deputy Chairman,             IEEE Singapore Section Industrial Electronics Chapter

§  2008, 2003                           Treasurer,                            IEEE Singapore Section Industrial Electronics Chapter 

§  1997, 2004                            Committee Member,                     IEEE Singapore Section Industrial Electronics Chapter 

 

(5)  Major  Services to Nanyang Technological  University

§        2005 -               Chairman

EEE Design and Innovation Project Committee

§        2005 -  2008    Member

Exchange Programme Committee

§        2003 -               Program Director,

                              Programme of  Modeling, Optimization and Control Techniques,

                              Centre for Modeling and Control of Complex Systems

§        1997 -  2008     Member, EEE Final Year Project Committee

§        1995 -   2007      Secretary,

Curriculum Review Committee in Control and Instrumentation Engineering Division

§        2000 - 2002      Co-ordinator,

                              Ph.D confirmation/conversion for research students in EEE

 

 (6)  Services as a reviewer

 Regular reviewers for a number of international journals and conferences such as

IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, Automatica, IEEE Transaction on Control System Technology, IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-Part I, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems - Part II, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B, IEEE Transaction on Neural Networks, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, IEE Proceedings-Part D, Systems and Control Letters, Control Engineering Practice, International Journal of Robust Control and Nonlinear Systems, International Journal of Control, International Journal for Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, European Journal of Control, Asian Journal of Control, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Circuits, Systems and Signal, International Journal of Systems Science, Pattern Recognition Letters, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control since 1990, American Control Conference since 1990, IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control since 1993, ICARCV since 1992