Prof. Graziano Chesi
Fellow of the IEEE, AAIA and AIIA
The University of Hong Kong, China
 
Biography: Graziano Chesi is a full professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Hong Kong. He received the Laurea in Information Engineering from the University of Florence and the PhD in Systems Engineering from the University of Bologna. He served as associate editor for various journals, including Automatica, the European Journal of Control, the IEEE Control Systems Letters, the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Systems and Control Letters. He founded the Technical Committee on Systems with Uncertainty of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He also served as chair of the Best Student Paper Award Committees of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and the IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control. He authored the books "Homogeneous Polynomial Forms for Robustness Analysis of Uncertain Systems" (Springer, 2009), "Domain of Attraction: Analysis and Control via SOS Programming" (Springer, 2011) and "LMI-Based Robustness Analysis in Uncertain Systems" (Now Publishers, 2024). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAIA and AIIA.

 

Prof. Hajime Asama
Fellow of IEEE, JSME, RSJ and SICE
The University of Tokyo, Japan

 

Biography: Hajime Asama is Emeritus Professor of the University of Tokyo. He received M. S. in 1984, and Dr. Eng. in 1989 from UTokyo. He worked at RIKEN, Japan from 1986 to 200, became a professor with the Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering (RACE) of UTokyo in 2002, a professor of the School of Engineering of Utokyo from 2009 to 2024, and the Director of RACE from 2019 to 2023. Currently, he is a project professor at Tokyo College, UTokyo.
He received the JSME Award (Technical Achievement) in 2018, etc. He was an AdCom Member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (2007-2009), the Vice President of RSJ (2011-2012), a Council Member of the Science Council of Japan (2017-2023), the President of IFAC (2020-2023), the Vice President of JSME (2023). He is a fellow of IEEE, JSME, RSJ and SICE.
His main interests are research and development of service robotics, distributed autonomous robotic systems, and embodied brain science, as well as social acceptance of the robot technologies.