-Education- -Experience- -Affiliations- -Honors- -Research- -Grants- -Services-

Education

• Ph.D., Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, USA, 2002.
• M.Eng., School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 1999.
• M.S. and B.S., East China Institute of Technology, Nanjing, P. R. China, 1993, and 1990.

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Professional Experience

• Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, The City College, City University of New York, (Jan. 2008 ~ Present).
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, The City College, City University of New York, (Sept. 2002 ~ Dec. 2007).
• Research Associate, Robotics Research Center, Nanyang Technological University,
  Singapore, (Jun. 1998~Aug. 1999).
• R & D Engineer, Project Leader, Sutian Industrial Corporation, P. R. China,
  (Mar. 1993~Aug. 1996).
• Visiting Researcher (Sponsored by National 863 High-Tech Program of China ),
  Laboratory of Intelligent Robot Control at Nankai University, P. R. China,
  (Oct. 1991 ~ Dec. 1992).

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Professional Affiliations

• Senior Member of IEEE
• Member of New York Academy of Sciences
• Member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
• Life Member and BOD member, Chinese Association for Science and Technology, USA. (CAST-USA)  

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Honors and Awards

• Recipient of U.S. NSF CAREER award, 2007. "The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization."
• Recipient of CUNY Certificate of Recognition, "Salute to Scholars" Award, in honor of outstanding scholarly achievements, CUNY, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
• Cited by Marquis Who’s Who in American, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering since 2002.
• Recipient of Certificate of Appreciation, New York Academy of Sciences, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.
• Recipient of Certificate of Recognition, Center for the Advancement of Hispanics in Science and Engineering Education, STEM program at CCNY, 2004 and 2005.

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Research Interests

• Robotics and Control, Embedded System Design, Digital Signal Processing,
  Computer Vision, and Intelligent Systems.

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Awarded Grants

• “CARRER: Advancing Mobile Robots to 3D”, National Science Foundation, PI, 2/15/2007 ~ 2/14/2012 , $400,000 ($80,000 X 5 years).
• “MRI: Development of a New Generation of Mobile Robots with Wall-Climbing and Reliable Communication Capabilities”, National Science Foundation, Co-PI, with Prof. Umit Uyar, July 2006~July 2009, $478,968.  
•  “Development and Commercialization of Innovative Wall-climbing Robots”, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), PI, with Prof. Ali Sadegh, 8/1/2006 ~ 8/1/2007 , $16,000. 
• “CRI: Center for Perceptual Robotics, Intelligent Sensors and Machines (PRISM) at CCNY”, National Science Foundation, PI, with Co-PIs: Profs. Zhigang Zhu, Myung Lee and George Wolberg, Senior Personnel: Profs Ali Sadegh, Esther Levin, Michael Grossberg and Umit Uyar, March 2006~March 2008, $280,000 (NSF)+$212,424 (CCNY).
• “Cooperative Wall-climbing Robots in 3-D Environments for Surveillance and Target Tracking”, U.S. Army Research Office, PI, with Prof. Zhigang Zhu, Nov. 2004~Nov. 2007, $375,237.
• “MII planning proposal: Center for Perceptual Robotics at the City College of New York”, National Science Foundation, PI, with Prof. Zhigang Zhu, Oct. 2004~Oct. 2005, $49,938.
• “MRI Instrumentation Development: Smart Reconfigurable Miniature Robot System Based on System-On-Programmable-Chip Technology”, National Science Foundation, Co-PI, with Prof. Umit Uyar, Sept. 2004~Sept. 2006, $202,844.

CUNY internal grants: 

• "Bio-Mimetic Approaches to Quadrupedal Robot Locomotion", CUNY Collaborative Incentive Research Grant, Co-PI, with Profs. Simon Parsons and Theodore Raphan of Brooklyn College , Sept. 2005~Sept. 2007, $79,480.  
• “Acquisition of equipment for multi-robot and mobile sensor networks research”, CUNY Research Equipment Grants Program, PI, with Prof. Myung Lee, 7/2005~7/2006, $22,250.
• “Development of an intelligent robotic inspection system for security applications”, PSC-CUNY-36, 7/2005~7/2006, $4,000.
• “Customizing Microprocessors for Micro-robots with SOPC Technology”, PSC-CUNY-35, 7/2004~7/2005, $4,400.
• “Development of a Micro Climbing Robotic System”, PSC-CUNY-34, 07/2003-07/2004, $5000.

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Professional Services

• Program Committee, Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta , USA , June 27~ 30, 2007.
• Organizing Committee and Exhibition Co-Chair, 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2006), Beijing , China  , Dec. 9-14, 2006 .
• Program Committee, the 8th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS’2006), Minneapolis , Minnesota , USA , July 12-14, 2006 .
• Program Committee, IEEE/SMC International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, Los Angeles , USA , April 24-26, 2006 .
• Organizing Committee and Exhibition Co-Chair, 2005 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM’2005), Monterey , California, USA, July 24-28, 2005 .
• Program Committee, 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2005), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Aug. 2-6, 2005.
• Technical Program Committee and Program Track Chair, 8th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV'2004), Kunming, China, Dec. 6-9, 2004..
  
• Workshop Organizer, Workshop on Control and Cooperation of Intelligent Miniature Robots at  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’03),Las Vegas, Oct. 27-31, 2003.
• Frequent Reviewer for the following Journals and Conferences: IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, IEEE Trans. on Robotics and Automation, IEEE Trans.
  on Mechatronics, IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems, Int. J. of Robotics and Automation, Neurocomputing, and IROS, ICRA, ICARCV, AIM, etc.

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