Welcome! I am a Senior Lecturer(Associate Professor) with the Centre for Intelligent Autonomous Manufacturing Systems, Queen's University Belfast, UK. I was a Senior Research Fellow with the University of Exeter, UK from 2018 to 2019, and a Research Fellow with the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Advanced Robotics Centre, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore and the WMG, University of Warwick, UK from Feb 2015 to April 2017. I have authored and co-authored of 75 journal papers (first-author of 40 journal papers) and 13 conference papers citations >3900 (google scholar) and a h-index of 34. I am on the list of the top 2% of Scopus highly cited researchers for 2016-2023 . Many papers are published in prestigious journals, including IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, IEEE Transactions on Instrument and Measurement, and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, etc. I was awarded a 2017 IET Science, Measurement & Technology Premium. My current research interests include Robot control, Manufacturing robotics, Robot-vision system, Human-robot interaction/collaboration, Condition monitoring, and sensing and perception, Machine Learning/AI for Robotics and Health care applications. Dr. Van is an executive member of UK Robotics and Autonomous System (UK RAS) and UK Automatic Control Engineering (UK ACE) EPSRC Networks. He is also an Associate Editor for many top tier journals such as IEEE Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, etc.
I am an Associate Editor of the IEEE Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, Springer, and Scientific Report, Frontier Journal of Control, and Sensors.
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