Profile
Name: Xiao Sun
Affiliation: Department of Mechatronics, University of Yamanashi, Japan
Title: Assitant Professor
Degree: Ph.D. in Engineering
Interested research field: Robotics, Intelligent Mechanical Engineering
Career
04/2021 to Current: Assistant Professor, Department of mechatronics, University of Yamanashi, Japan
04/2020 to 03/2021: Assistant Professor, Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Japan
10/2019 to 03/2020: Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Mechanical Engineering, Waseda University, Japan
12/2017 to 09/2019: Research Associate, Department of Modern Mechanical Engineering, Waseda University, Japan
Education
12/2018: Ph.D in Engineering, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan
03/2014: Master in Engineering, School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
07/2011: Bachelor in Engineering, School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
※10/1996 to 03/2001: Studied in elementary schools in Tokyo, Kumamoto and Fukuoka, Japan
Committee Memberships
04/2021 to 03/2023: Journal editorial committee, Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ)
09/2020 to 03/2023: Commitee of International Union, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME)
Awards
Gold Best Application Paper Award, 6th IFToMM Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics (MEDER2024), Jun. 2024 (first author)
IEEE GCCE 2023 Excellent Demo! Awards (Gold Prize), IEEE 12th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2023), Oct. 2023 (co-author)
Silver Best Research Paper Award, 6th Conference on Mechanisms, Transmissions and Applications (MeTrApp2023), May 2023 (co-author)
Silver Best Research Paper Award, 4th International Conference of IFToMM Italy (IFIT2022), Sep. 2022 (co-author)
Honorable Mention Award, The International Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), 2011
Languages
JLPT (Japanese-Language Proficiency Test) N1: 180/180
TOEFL iBT (Internet-based Test of English as a Foreign Language): 105/120
GRE (Graduate Record Examination): 325/340 (Verbal: 161/170, Quantitative: 164/170)
Hobbies
Othello (Reversi): 4th place in the 1st Othello Tournamment for Elementary School Students in Kyushu area, Japan, 2000
Rubik's Cube 3x3: 17.82 second (personal best for one solve); 26.77 second (personal average best for 10 solves)