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
§
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