Education

2017, Ph.D., George W. Wooddruff School of Mechanical Engineering, 

                       Georgia Institute of Technology

Advisor: Professor Kok-Meng Lee, Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics Research Laboratory 

2011, M.S., Department of Mechanical Engineering, 

                    Stanford University

Depth: Mechatronics, Breadth: Control

2005, M.S., Department of Electrical Control Engineering, 

                   National Chiao Tung University

Advisor: Professor Chin-Teng Lin and Chi-Cheng Jou

2003, B.S., Department of Mechanical Engineering, 

                          National Central University 

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Aug. 2018-Jul. 2023

Research Assistant/Teaching Assistant, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Jan. 2012-Dec. 2017

Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Dec. 2008-Jul. 2009 

Academic Services

• Chair, IEEE Magnetic Society, Taiwan Chapter

• Associate Editor, International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications

• Editor, International Journal of iRobotics

Awards & Honors

• Excellent Young Scholar Research Grant, National Science and Technology Council, 2025, 國家科技與技術委員會 2030跨世代年輕學者方案優秀年輕學者計畫

• Springer Nature Editorial Contribution Award, 2025

• Young Engineer Award, Chinese Automatic Control Society, 2023 青年自動控制工程獎

• Young Engineer Award, Robotics Society of Taiwan, 2023 青年機器人工程獎

• Excellent Young Scholar Research Grant, National Science and Technology Council, 2020, 國家科技與技術委員會優秀年輕學者計畫

 As an advisor for mentoring the following students' awards:

• International conference:

1. Best  Conference Paper Award Second Place, The 21th International Conference on Automation Technology 2024 

2. Best  Paper Award Second Place, The 20th International Conference on Automation Technology 2023 (Advisor to Hung-Chieh Tseng, Yu-Han Tsai, Yi-Chin Wu) 

3.Third Place of Best Paper Competition, The 19th International Conference on Automation Technology 2022 (Advisor to Wei-Chen Li, Hao-Tse Chen, Yuan-Liang Chen) 

4. Best Presentation Paper Award Honorable Mention, International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems 2022

(Advisor to Wen-Hui Su)

5. Best Conference Paper Finalist, IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics 2021 (Advisor to Hao-Tse Chen, Hao-Fang Cheng, Yu-Jun He)

6. Best Paper Competition-Silver, The 18th International Conference on Automation Technology 2021 (Advisor to Yi-Chun Wu, Megan Teng, Kuan-Cheng Chen)

• Domestic conference:

1. Annual Meeting of Taiwan Association of Magnetic Technology Poster Competition Excellence Award, 2023 (Advisor to Yu-Hsuan Chuang, Yi-Chin Wu )

2.  1st Formosa Conference on Non-Destructive Testing, Best Oral Presentation Honorable Mention Award (FCNDT 2024), (Advisor to Yi-Chin Wu, Yu-Lin Lan)

3. 2023 Taiwan Society of Precision Engineering Research Project and Paper Competition for Undergraduate Students Silver Award (Advisor to Yu-Lin Lan)

• Master thesis:

1.  Hiwin Thesis Master’s Thesis Honorable Mention Award, 2024

2. Chinese Automatic Control Society Master’s Thesis Honorable Mention Award, 2024 (Advisor to Hsin-Hao Chou)

3.  Taiwan Association of Magnetic Technology Master’s Thesis Honorable Mention Award, 2024 (Advisor to Yi-Chin Wu ) 

4. Dean’s Award for College of Engineering Graduate Students, National Taiwan University, 2024 (Advisor to Hsu-Ming Li )

5. Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineerings Master’s Thesis Honorable Mention Award, 2023 (Advisor to Wen-Hao Chen ) 

6. Robotics Society of Taiwan Master’s Thesis Excellence Award, 2023. (Advisor to Zhong-Hsiang Kuo)

7. Dean’s Award for College of Engineering Graduate Students, National Taiwan University, 2023 (Advisor to Wen-Hao Chen )

8. Chinese Automatic Control Society Master’s Thesis Excellence Award, 2022 (Advisor to Yu-Jun He )

9. Dean’s Award for College of Engineering Graduate Students, National Taiwan University, 2022 (Advisor to Ren-Yuan Huang)

10. Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineerings Master’s Thesis Honorable Mention Award, 2020 (Advisor to Yuan-Liang Chen)

• Bachelor thesis:

1. Dean Award for College of Engineering Graduate Students, National Taiwan University, 2024 (Advisor to  Yu-Lin Lan)

2. Excellent Award for College of Engineering Graduate Students, National Taiwan University, 2023 (Advisor to Ding-Chun Hsieh)

• A research grant for an undergraduate student, National Science and Technology Council: 

Advisor to Po-Ju Huang 2025, Shih-Hsuan Chou 2024, Yu-Lin Lan 2023, Ding-Chun Hsieh 2021

Before 2018

1. Best Mechatronics Paper Award, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division, Mechatronics Technical Committee, 2015

2. Best Paper Finalist, IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics 2015 

3. Taiwan Government Scholarship for Studying Abroad, 2011

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News

• 2025

1.  Po-Ju Huang received a research grant for an undergraduate student from the National Science and Technology Council.

2.  TAMT2025 and IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer

• 2024 

1. Hsin-Hao Chou received Chinese Automatic Control Society Master’s Thesis Honorable Mention Award, 2024.

2. Yi-Chin Wu and Yu-Lin Lan received 1st Formosa Conference on Non-Destructive Testing, Best Oral Presentation Honorable Mention Award (FCNDT 2024).

3. Hsu-Ming Li received Dean’s Award for College of Engineering Graduate Students, National Taiwan University, 2024.

4. Yi-Chin Wu received Taiwan Association of Magnetic Technology Master’s Thesis Honorable Mention Award, 2024.

5. Yu-Lin Lan received Dean Award for College of Engineering Graduate Students, National Taiwan University, 2024.

6. Shih-Hsuan Chou received a research grant for an undergraduate student, Ministry of Science and Technology Council, 2024.

7. IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics 2024 Workshop: Advanceds of Intelligent Mechatronics: Research Landscape and Future Directions.  https://www.aim2024.org/workshops

• 2023

8. Hung-Chieh Tseng, Yu-Han Tsai, Yi-Chin Wu received Best  Paper Award Second Place, The 20th International Conference on Automation Technology 2023.

9. Yu-Lin Lan received 2023 Taiwan Society of Precision Engineering Research Project and Paper Competition for Undergraduate Students Silver Award. 

10. Wen-Hao Chen received the Master's Thesis Honorable Mention Award, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society.

11. PI received Young Engineer Award, Chinese Automatic Control Society.

12. Zhong-Hsiang Kuo received Robotics Society of Taiwan Master’s Thesis Excellence Award.

13. PI served as Associate Editor of International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications (Springer Nature).

      https://www.springer.com/journal/41315

14. Wen-Hao Chen received Dean’s Award for College of Engineering Graduate Students, National Taiwan University. 

15. Yu-Hsuan Chuang, Yi-Chin Wu received Annual Meeting of Taiwan Association of Magnetic Technology  Poster Competition Excellence Award.

16. PI received Young Engineer Award, Robotics Society of Taiwan.

17. Undergraduate student, Yu-Lin Lan, received a research grant for the undergraduate student, Ministry of Science and Technology. 

• 2022

18. Undergraduate student, Ding-Chun Hsieh, received the Excellent Award for College of Engineering Undergraduate Students.

19. MIARL receives “Eddy Current Sensing and Method Thereof,” R.O.C Patent, I794764. 

20. The article "Distributed Current Source Method for Modeling of Magnetic and Eddy-Current Fields in Sensing System Design" has been selected as the feature article, article of the week for IEEE Access.

https://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/featured-articles/

21. Best Paper Award Third Prize, Automation 2022

22. Yu-Jun He received 2022 Chinese  Automatic Control Society Master's Thesis Excellence Award.

23. Wen-Hui Su received the ARIS2022 Best Presenstation Paper Honorable Mention Award.

24. Ren-Yuan Huang received the Dean's Award for College of Engineering Graduate Students, 2022. 

25. Undergraduate research student and research assistant, Megan Teng is working toward Ph.D. degree in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California-Berkeley.

• 2021

26. Yi-Chin Wu, Megan Teng, Kuan-Cheng Chen received Automation 2021 Best Conference Paper Silver Award.

27. Hao-Tse Chen, Hao-Fang Cheng, Yu-Jun He received IEEE/ASME AIM 2021 Best Conference Paper Award Finalist. 

28. IEEE/ASME AIM2021 workshop on Machine and Bio-Sensing Systems.

29. Ding-Chun Hsieh, received the research grant for the undergraduate student, Ministry of Science and Technology.

• 2020 

30. Yuan-Liang Chen, received the Master's Thesis Honorable Mention Award, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society.

31. PI serves as Guest Editor of International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications (Aug 2020)

32. PI receives Excellent Young Scholars Grant, Ministry of Science and Technology.

• 2019

33. Yuan-Liang Chen, received Travel Grant for Attendance of International Conference, Ministry of Science and Technology.