Director

Experience

Academic Appointments:

Distinguished Professor,  Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan. (Aug. 2024 - present)

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan. (Aug. 2021 - Jul. 2024)

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan. (Aug. 2015 - Jul. 2021)

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan. (Aug. 2012 - Jul. 2015)

Administrative Appointments:

Deputy Director, Innovation Headquarters (IHQ), National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan. (Aug. 2025 - present)

Director, Research Center for Intelligent Sustainable Mechatronics and Technology (ISMAT), National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan. (Feb. 2023 - present)

Deputy Secretary-General, Academia-Industry Consortium for Southern Taiwan Science Park, Taiwan. (Aug. 2021 - present)

Secretary General, Chinese Institution of Engineers Kaohsiung-City Branch. (Jul. 2025 - present)

Director, Industry Service and Conference Exhibition Center, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan. (Aug. 2021 - present)

Director, Industry Liaison Office, Innovation Headquarters (IHQ), National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan. (Aug. 2021 - Jul. 2025)

Additional Experience:

Visiting Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UH), HI, USA. (Jan. 2020 - Feb. 2020)

Visiting  Scholar, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland (UMD), College Park, MD, USA. (Jul. 2019 - Aug. 2019)

Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland (UMD), College Park, USA. (Aug. 2007 - May 2012)

Corporal of Military Police, Ministry of National Defense, Taiwan. (Oct. 2005 - Jan. 2007) (Mandatory Military Service)

Research Assistant, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Taiwan. (Aug. 2005 - Oct. 2005)

Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), HsinChu, Taiwan. (Jan. 2003 - Jun. 2005)

Honors and Awards

National Awards: 

Delta Young Technology Scholar Award, Robotics Area, Taiwan, 2025.

Outstanding Research Award, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Taiwan, 2023.

2030 Cross-Generation Young Scholars Program - International Outstanding Young Scholars, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Taiwan 2025.

2030 Cross-Generation Young Scholars Program - Emerging Young Scholars, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Taiwan 2023.

MOST Young Scholar Fellowship - Pilot Directions for MOST Grant for the Columbus Program, MOST, Taiwan, 2019.

Ta-You Wu Memorial Award, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan, 2016.

Outstanding Young Scholar Award, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan, 2014.

Newly-Appointed NSC Research Fellow Award, National Science Council (NSC), Taiwan, 2012.

University Awards:

Excellence in Research Award, College of Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan, 2021.

Outstanding Research Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan, 2021.

Outstanding Research Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan, 2020.

Kwoh-Ting Li Researcher Award, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan, 2018.

Rising-Star Award, College of Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan, 2017.

Professional Society Awards:

Best Young Professional Member Award, IEEE Tainan Section, 2020.

Outstanding Young Automatic Control Award, Chinese Automatic Control Society (CACS), Taiwan 2018.

Outstanding Mechanical Faculty Award, Kaohsiung Chapter, Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers (CSME), Taiwan, 2018.

Outstanding Young Robotics Award, Robotics Society of Taiwan (RST), Taiwan, 2017.

Outstanding Young Faculty, Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME), Taiwan, 2015.

Best Paper Award, the 13th International Conference on Automation Technology (Automation), Nov. 2015.

Best Conference Paper Award – the Third Prize, International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems (ARIS), 2014.

Best Conference Paper Award – the First Prize, International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems (ARIS), 2013.

Travel Award, IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011.

Scholarship, TECRO Cultural Division, 2010.

Best Master Thesis Award, Automotive Research & Testing Center (ARTC), Taiwan, 2006.

Honorable Member, Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society, 2005.

Valedictorian, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, 2003.

Honorable Mention, National Electric Assisted Bicycles Design Competition, Taiwan, 2002.

Scholarship, Delta Electronics, Inc., Taiwan, 2001.

Presidential Award, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, 2001, 2003, 2004.

International Professional Memberships

IEEE Senior Member, since 2019 (IEEE Member since 2009).

ASME Member, since 2010.

IET Member, since 2022.

Domestic Professional Memberships

RST Member

CIAE Member

CSME Member

CACS Member

Professional Services / Academic Services

International Professional Services:

Chair, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Chapter, IEEE Tainan Section

Journal Editorial Board Members:

Associate Editor, Journal of the Franklin Institute, Jan. 2025 to present.

Associate Editor, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, Jul. 2022 to present.

Associate Editor, ASME Letters in Dynamic Systems and Control, Oct. 2020 to present.

Associate Editor, International Journal of Dynamics and Control, Aug. 2017 to present.

Conference Editorial Board Members:

Senior Program Committee, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2024.

Associate Editor, Indian Control Conference (ICC), 2025.

Associate Editor, IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.

Associate Editor, Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference (MECC), 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025.

Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.

Technical Program Committee, International Automatic Control Conference (CACS), 2022.

Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems (ARIS), 2022.

Program Committee, International Conference on System Science and Engineering (ICSSE), 2022.

Organized/Invited Sessions Chairs, International Automatic Control Conference (CACS), 2022.

Invited Session Co-Chair, International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems (ARIS), 2019.

Associate Editor, American Control Conference (ACC), 2021.

Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), 2020.

Associate Editor, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC), 2020.

Associate Editor, IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017, 2018, 2019.

Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2014, 2015, 2016.

Program Committee, Track on Intelligent Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems, ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.

Reviewerships:

Reviewer for (since Aug. 2012) Advanced Robotics, Asian Journal of Control, Automatica, IEEE Access, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, IET Control Theory & Applications, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, International Journal of Control, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, International Journal of NonLinear Mechanics, Journal of the Franklin Institute, Nonlinear Dynamics, Robotica, Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing, and Robotics and Autonomous Systems.