• Professor, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 2021-Present

• Thrust Lead, Cobots and Manufacturing thrust, NRF Medium sized centre (MSC) “Centre for Advanced Robotics Technology Innovation (CARTIN)”, Nanyang Technological University, 2021-Present

• Core Co-Lead, Data Science core, MOE Research centre of excellence (RCE) “Institute for Digital Molecular Analytics and Science (IDMxS)”, Nanyang Technological University, 2021-Present

• Assistant Chair (Research), School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 2018-2022

• Co-Program Leader, Theme Co-leader, Singapore-Berkeley Building Efficiency and Sustanability in the Tropics 2 (SinBerBEST 2), The Campus for Research Excellence And Technological Enterprise (CREATE) program, Funded by National Research Foundation of Singapore, 2017-2022

• Director, Centre for System Intelligence and Efficiency, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 2016-2011

• Associate Professor (with tenure), School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 2017-2021

• Deputy Director, SMRT-NTU Corporate Lab, Nanyang Technological University, 2016-2019

• Member of Working Committee of CoE Digital Economy & Services (SDE) Initiative, College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 2015-2016

• Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2011-2017

• Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Kansas State University, USA, 2008-2011

Services to Professional Communities:

Singapore Communities:

• Co-Lead, Multi-robot systems, National Robotics Program (NRP) Tech Advisory Group (TAG), Singapore, 2021-Present

• Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), Singapore Chapter Committee, 2017-Present

• Member, IEEE Robotics & Automation Society (RAS), Singapore Chapter Committee, 2016-Present

Conference Organizing Committee and Service:

• Program Chair, the 62th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore, Dec 2023

• Keynote and Panel Chair, International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), Singapore, Dec 2022

• Keynote and Panel Chair, International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), Shenzhen, China, Dec 2020

• General Chair, IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA), Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, 2020

• Program Co-Chair, IEEE IECON, Singapore, 2020

• Invited Session Chair, IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA), Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2019

• General Chair, International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), Singapore, Nov 2018

• General Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA), Alaska, USA, June 2018

• Finance Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS) and Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM), 2017

• Invited Session Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA), 2017

• Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA), 2016

• Organized Session Chair, International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS), 2016

• Invited Session Chair, International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), 2016

• Program Chair, Symposium on New Tides of Control Theory and Applications, Hong Kong, 2015

• Invited Session Chair, IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS) and Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM), 2015

• Area Chair, International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), 2014

• Invited Session Chair, IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA), 2014

• Invited Session Chair, IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS), 2011

Journal Editorship:

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2019-Present

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2017-Present

• Technical Editor, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2017-2020

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2017-2020

• Subject Editor, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2014-Present

• Associate Editor, Unmanned Systems, 2013-Present

• Associate Editor, Asian Journal of Control, 2012-2016

• Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Special issue on “New Trends of Demand Response in Smart Grids”, 2014-2016

Technical Committee:

• Member, Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), Technical Committee on Control Theory (TCCT), 2019-Present

• Member, IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), Technical Committee on Smart City, 2017-Present

• Member, IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), Technical Committee on Intelligent Control, 2016-Present

• Member, IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), Technical Committee on Nonlinear Systems and Control, 2015-Present

Conference Best Paper Award Committee Member:

• Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award, Theory sub-committee, American Control Conference (ACC), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 2018

• Best paper award committee, IEEE International Conference on Information & Automation (ICIA), Wuyishan, China, 2018

• Best student paper award committee, IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA), Alaska, USA, 2018

• Best student paper award committee, IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA), Macedonia, 2017

• Best paper award committee, The 13th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), Singapore, 2014

• Best paper award committee, The 12th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), Guangzhou, China, 2012

• Best student paper award committee, IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC), Yokohama, Japan, 2010

Conference Editorship:

• Associate Editor at Large, IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2018

• Associate Editor, Conference Editorial Board, IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), 2011-2018

• Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011-2014

• Associate Editor, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2009, 2010

Conference Program Committee Member:

• IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2010, 2018

• American Control Conference (ACC), 2018

• International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), 2012, 2014, 2016

• IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA), 2013, 2014

• Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC), 2015-2018

• IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2014, 2016, 2017

• IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC), 2010, 2012

• IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS), 2011, 2013

• Asian Control Conference (ASCC), 2013, 2017

• International Workshop on Robots and Sensor Clouds (RSC), 2014

• International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS), 2016

• International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), 2008-2011, 2014