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Jun Ueda

Professor, GWW School of Mechanical Engineering

Room 219, E.J. Love Jr. Manufacturing Building
771 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0405
PHONE: 404-385-3900, FAX:404-894-8496
E-mail: jun.ueda-at-me.gatech.edu

Short Bio: Jun Ueda is a Professor in the G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1994, 1996, and 2002, respectively. From 1996 to 2000, he was a Research Engineer at the Advanced Technology Research and Development Center of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation in Japan. He served as an Assistant Professor at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, from 2002 to 2008. From 2005 to 2008, he was also a visiting scholar and lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor in 2008 and was the Director of the Robotics Ph.D. Program at Georgia Tech from 2015 to 2017. He also served as the Chair of the Editorial Board for the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM) and as the General Chair for the 2023 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII). Dr. Ueda is currently a Senior Editor for the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. He is the author of ‘Cellular Actuators: Modularity and Variability in Muscle-Inspired Actuation’ (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2017) and ‘Human Modeling for Bio-Inspired Robotics’ (Academic Press, 2017). His recognitions include the Fanuc FA Robot Foundation Best Paper Award in 2005, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Academic Career Award in 2009, the Advanced Robotics Best Paper Award in 2015, and the Nagamori Award in 2021.

Professional Appointment

  • Professor (2020-), Associate Professor (2014-2020), Assistant Professor (2008-2014)
    George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Visiting Professor, The University of ElectroCommunications, Japan, 2020-
  • Visiting Professor, Hiroshima University, Japan, 2020-
  • Visiting Professor, Kobe University, Japan, 2022-
  • Helmsley Distinguished Fellow at the ABC Robotics Initiative at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel,  May-July 2016
  • Woodruff Faculty Fellow  2015-2020
  • Director of the Robotics PhD Program & Associate Director of Academics at IRIM@GT 2015-2017
  • Adjunct Faculty
    Physiology program, School of Biological Sciences
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    March 2010 – Present
  • Lecturer
    2.12 Introduction to Robotics
    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    September 2006 – December 2006
  • Visiting Scholar
    d’Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology (Prof. H. Asada’s lab)
    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    March 2005 – Feb 2008
  • Assistant professor
    Robotics Laboratory (Prof. T. Ogasawara’s lab)
    Graduate School of Information Science
    Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
    April 2002 – April 2008
  • Senior Research Engineer
    Advanced Technology R&D Center
    Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Hyogo, Japan
    April 1996 – March 2000

Education

  • Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering, March 2002
    Kyoto University, Japan
    Advised by Professor Tsuneo Yoshikawa
  • M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, March 1996
    Kyoto University, Japan
    Advised by Professor Tsuneo Yoshikawa
  • B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, March 1994
    Kyoto University, Japan
    Advised by Professor Tsuneo Yoshikawa

Affiliation within Georgia Tech

Funding

  • GWW International Collaboration Fund, with University of Stuttgart, September 2024
  • Woodruff Launch Seed Grant FY2022-2023 with Dr. Ellen Mazumar
  • Woodruff Launch Seed Grant FY2022-2023 with Dr. Ye Zhao
  • Georgia Tech Executive Vice President for Research (EVPR) Seed Grant, Team Forming and Testbed Prototyping for NSF Engineering Research Center for Connected Eldercare, PI: Ueda, $46,788, FY22 and FY23, 05/12/2022-
  • National Science Foundation, CMMI, DCSD, A Geometric Approach for Generalized Encrypted Control of Networked Dynamical Systems (#2112793), PI: Ueda, $378,570, 08/15/2021-08/14/2024
  • National Science Foundation, ERC-Eng Research Centers, Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Connected Eldercare (#2124319), PI: H. Asada (MIT), Co-PIs: J. Ueda (GT) and P. Bonato (MGH), $100,000, 09/01/2021-08/31/2022
  • Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at GT (IRIM) FY21 Seed Grant, Towards Closed-loop Perception and Decision-making of Highly Dynamic Robot Motions in Unstructured Environments PI: Ye Zhao, Co-PIs: Jun Ueda, Ai-Ping Hu, Tuo Zhao, $15,000, 1/7/2021-6/30/2021
  • National Science Foundation Data Science Supplement for CMMI, $66,361, for NSF #1662029, PI: Ueda, Co-Is, Dr. Ai-Ping Hu (GTRI) and Dr. Ye Zhao (ME)
  • CDMRP FY 2019 Discovery Award, Tunable resonant actuation for magnetic resonance elastography of active tissues, $287K, Department of the Army (award notice 10/4/2019, 04/01/2020-03/31/2022)
  • Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at GT (IRIM) Seed Grant, High-Precision MRI-guided Direct Cell Injection Robot (Phase 2), PI: Ai-Ping Hu (GTRI) and Co-PI: Jun Ueda (ME) in collaboration with John Oshinski (Emory) $12,500 (+ $12.5K matching from GTRI), 8/22/2019-06/30/2020
  • General Motors (extension of Phase 2), September 2019- August 2020
  • Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at GT (IRIM) Seed Grant, High-Precision MRI-guided Direct Cell Injection Robot, PI: Ai-Ping Hu (GTRI) and Co-PI: Jun Ueda (ME) in collaboration with John Oshinski (Emory) $25,000 (+ $25K matching from GTRI), 10/22/2018-06/30/2019
  • GTRI Independent Research and Development (IRAD), Phase 4, $20,000 (Ueda’s share $10,000), 07/1/2018-06/30/2019
  • National Science Foundation, CMMI, M3X – Mind, Machine, and Motor Nexus, Collaborative Research: Enhancing Gait Dynamics via Physical Human-human and Human-Robot Interactions at the Hands (#1761679), $319,231, PI: Essa, Co-PI: Ueda, 06/01/2018-05/30/2021 (NCE -05/30/2022).
  • Georgia Tech Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN), Micro-/Nano- Electronics and Photonics for Challenges of Global Significance, $225,000 (for 3 years), Muscle-Inspired Actuators for Multiscale Robotics (MIAMuR), PI: Azadeh Ansari, co-PIs: Sponberg, Goldman, Ueda, Nadler, Ayazi, Bakir, Egerstedt
  • GTRI Independent Research and Development (IRAD), Phase 3, $45,000, 07/01/2017-06/30/2018
  • National Science Foundation, CMMI Program, Integrated Computer Vision System Based on Human Eye Motion (#1662029), $332,659, 07/01/2017-06/30/2021 (NCE)
  • US DOD, AFOSR (AOARD) – ROK MOTIE joint research collaboration, Hybrid Site Sensing and Human-Multi-Robot Team Collaboration For Disaster Relief at Nuclear Power Plants, US PI: Cho, US Co-PI: Ueda, 2017-2020, $336,648
  • General Motors (Phase 2), January 2017- January 2019
  • Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at GT (IRIM) Seed Grant, Musculoskeletal Disorder Prevention by Robotic Constrain-as-Needed Exoskeleton (CANE) for Construction Workers., PI: Cho (Civil Engineering) and Ueda (ME), $25,000, 08/27/2016-06/30/2017
  • GTRI Independent Research and Development (IRAD), Phase 2, $15,000 (Ueda’s share $10,000), 07/26/2016-06/30/2017
  • Samsung Electronics, 11/01/2015-01/31/2017
  • GT Neural Engineering Center seed grant, Robotic induction of neuromodulation in human motor system (renewal),  PI: Shinohara, co-PI: Ueda, $5,000, 11/14/2015-06/30/2016
  • GTRI Independent Research and Development (IRAD) 09/21/2015-06/30/2016
  • NITI-ON CO LTD (Phase 2 ) 07/01/2015-02/01/2016.
  • Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at GT (IRIM) Healthcare Cluster Seed Grant, Neuromechanical intervention robot for treating and preventing joint contracture, PIs: Shinohara and Ueda, $20,000, 01/01/2015-06/30/2015
  • GT Neural Engineering Center seed grant, Robotic induction of neuromodulation in human motor system,  PI: Shinohara, co-PI: Ueda, $10,000, 01/13/2015-06/30/2015
  • NITI-ON CO LTD, 08/01/2014-02/01/2015.
  • National Science Foundation Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power, Fluid-Powered Surgery & Rehabilitation via Compact, Integrated Systems (renewed) (Y9-Y10), co-PIs: Barth, Vito, Webster, and Ueda, $300,000 (Ueda’s share approx. $100,000), 06/01/2014-05/31/2016 (Link to CCEFP).
  • National Science Foundation, IIS, NRI: Small: Understanding neuromuscular adaptations in human-robot physical interaction for adaptive robot co-workers (#1317718), PI: Ueda, co-PIs: Shinohara and Feigh, $1,199,427.00, 9/15/2013-8/31/2017. (Link to Award #1317718)
  • National Science Foundation, CMMI, Dynamic Systems, Role of Nonuniformly Quantized Actuation in Biological Motion Generation (#1300019), PI: Ueda, $289,417.00, 6/1/2013-5/31/2016. (Link to Award #1300019)
  • National Science Foundation Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power, Fluid-Powered Surgery & Rehabilitation via Compact, Integrated Systems (renewed) (Y7-Y8), co-PIs: Barth, Vito, Webster, and Ueda, $344,812 (Ueda’s share $130,802), 06/01/2012-05/31/2014 (Link to CCEFP).
  • National Science Foundation, Division of Information & Intelligent Systems, EAGER: Muscle Adaptation Induced by the Physical Interaction with an Exoskeleton and its Application to Motor-Task Planning for Neurorehabilitation (#1142438), PI: Ueda and co-PI Shinohara, $49,863, 09/01/2011-08/31/2013 (Link to Award #1142438)
  • Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at GT 2011 Seed Grant, $25,000, – Spring 2012
  • National Science Foundation, Division of Computer and Network Systems, II-New: Motion Grammar Laboratory (#1059362), PI: Stilman, co-PIs, Christensen, Egerstedt, Essa, and Ueda, $303,000, 02/18/2011-02/28/2014 (Link to Award #1059362)
  • National Science Foundation, Cyber Physical Systems, CPS: Small: Generation of natural movement for a multiple degrees-of-freedom robot driven by stochastic cellular actuators (#0932208), PI: Ueda, $450,645, 9/1/2009-8/31/2012. (Link to Award #0932208)
  • National Science Foundation Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power, 2G: Fluid-Powered Surgery & Rehabilitation via Compact, Integrated Systems (Y5-Y6), co-PIs: Webster, Ueda, $362,270 (Ueda’s share $137,439), 06/01/2010-05/31/2012 (Link to CCEFP).
  • General Motors (Phase 1), 11/01/2010-04/30/2011.
  • Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT), Piezoelectric Tweezers for Robotic Surgery and Intervention in MRI, PI: Ueda, $37,469, 01/01/2011-06/30/2011.
  • National Science Foundation-Japan Science and Technology Agency (NSF-JST) Strategic Cooperative program in Robotics, Joint Research Program for Innovative Rehabilitation Support Technology Based on Fusion of Engineering, Medical, and Physiological Sciences (US side PI: Ueda, Japan side PI: Ogasawara), 04/2010-09/2012 (Link to JST).
  • Georgia Tech/Emory Healthcare system institute Seed grant program, Extracting Impaired Modulation of Muscle Activation Pattern in Neurological Patients Using Pinpointed Muscle Control Robot, PI: Ueda, co-PIs: Shinohara, Krishnamoothy, $50,000, 09/01/2008-06/30/2009 (Link to HSI)

Funding (at NAIST)

  • Grants-in-aid of Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 16300058 (Ueda: co-I), 30304158 (Ueda: co-I), 13450104 (Ueda: co-I), 18300194 (Ueda: International Collaborator)
  • Mitsubishi Foundation, PI: Ogasawara, co-PIs: Ueda and Takemura, Human gait measurement and analysis, 2004-2005
  • Sharp Corporation, Fingerprint Pointing Device, 2004
  • Research subsidy from Suzuki Foundation (Suzuki motor co., Japan), March 2004
  • Research subsidy from Artificial Intelligence Research Promotion Foundation, Japan, Dec., 2003

Awards and Recognitions

  • Plenary Speaker, IEEE AMC 2024, Kyoto
  • System Integration Certificate Merit for Outstanding Contribution, The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), Japan, December 15, 2023
  • 7th Nagamori Award (May 2021)
  • 2019 DSCC Vibrations Technical Committee Best Paper Award in Theory, “Configuration Optimization For End-Point Stabilization Of Redundant Manipulators With Base Flexibility” written by Michael LiBretto, Yong K. Cho, Yong Han Ahn, Chang Soo Han, Jun Ueda
  • IEEE RAS Senior Member, 2018-
  • Member of ASME Intelligent Robotics Delegation for the 12th Sino-American Technology and Engineering Conference (SATEC) organized by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs and Ministry of Science and Technology, P. R. China, 5/14-5/19, 2018
  • Plenary Speaker, IEEE AIM 2017 Conference
  • Helmsley Distinguished Fellow at the ABC Robotics Initiative at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel,  May-July 2016
  • 2015 SICE SI2015 Best Presentation Paper Award
  • 2015 Advanced Robotics Best Paper Award
  • Woodruff Faculty Fellow, 2015-2020
  • Semi-Plenary Presentation Finalist,  2012 ASME Dynamics Systems and Control Conference
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
    2009 Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation
  • Best Automation Paper Finalist
    2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
  • Postdoctoral fellowships for research abroad
    JSPS (the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), 2004
    Scholarship from Feb. 2006 to Feb. 2008 at MIT
  • Overseas advanced educational research practice support program
    MEXT (Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan), 2004
    Scholarship from March 1, 2005 to Jan. 31, 2006 at MIT
  • Special award of 2004 Original Paper Awards from FANUC FA and Robot Foundation, March 4, 2005
  • Research incentive award from Human Interface Society, March 2, 2004
  • As advisor for the following student awards and recognitions (student success):
    • 2011 Georgia Tech Research & Innovation Conference Travel Award (Greg Henderson)
    • 2011 ARCS Fellowship (Joshua Schultz)
    • 2012 NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship (Ellenor Brown)
    • 2012 Air Products ME Undergraduate Research Award (James Shealy)
    • 2012 ASME DSCD Best Student Paper on Mechatronics (William Gallagher)
    • 2013 Air Products ME Undergraduate Research Award (Ilya Kovalenko)
    • 2013 Georgia Tech President’s Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA) (Ravi Haksar and Rohan Katoch)
    • 2014 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (Ravi Haksar and Cole Simpson)
    • 2014 Fulbright Fellowship (Cole Simpson)
    • 2014 Georgia Space Grant Consortium Fellowship (Ellenor Brown)
    • 2014 Georgia Tech President’s Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA) (Ilya Kovalenko)
    • 2014 2nd Place, Technical Poster Presentation, FPIRC14 (formerly CCEFP annual PI meeting), Nashville (Melih Turkseven)
    • 2015 Georgia Tech Career,  Research, Innovation Development Conference (CRIDC), $1500 Travel Grant (Michael Kim)
    • 2015 IEEE ICRA 2015, Student Travel Grant (Michael Kim)
    • 2016 Georgia Tech Career,  Research, Innovation Development Conference (CRIDC), $1500 Travel Grant (Michael Kim)
    • 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (Ilya Kovalenko)
    • 2017 Georgia Tech Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award (Kevin Pluckter)
    • 2018 Georgia Tech Career,  Research, Innovation Development Conference (CRIDC), $1500 Travel Grant (Terese Martinez)
    • 2018 ORISE Fellowship at FDA (Ellenor Brown)
    • 2019 Georgia Tech President’s Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA) (Alex Zabaldo)
    • 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (Daniel E. Martinez)
    • 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (Heriberto (Andy) Nieves)
    • 2022 Georgia Tech President’s Undergraduate Research Awards (Fall 2022 PURA) (Alaz Cig)
    • 2022 DSCD Rising Stars at MECC 2022 (Dr. Waiman Meinhold)
    • 2023 Georgia Tech President’s Undergraduate Research Awards (Spring 2023 PURA) (Saahas Yechuri)
    • 2023 Georgia Tech President’s Undergraduate Research Awards (Spring 2023 PURA) (Hyuk Bin Kwon)
    • 2023 Georgia Tech President’s Undergraduate Research Awards (Spring 2023 PURA) (Charles Hong)
    • SICE International Young Authors Award (SIYA) at IEEE/SICE System Integration Symposium International (SII) 2023 (Dr. Waiman Meinhold)
    • 2023 Georgia Tech President’s Undergraduate Research Awards (Fall 2023 PURA) (Alexey Khotisky)
    • 2023 Georgia Tech President’s Undergraduate Research Awards (Fall 2023 PURA) and PURA travel award (Charles Hong)
    • 3rd Place, Georgia Tech Undergraduate Research Symposium, Engineering (Charles Hong)
    • Goizueta Foundation Fellowship (Heriberto “Andy” Nieves), April 2023
    • Georgia Tech’s University Center of Exemplary Mentoring (GT-UCEM) Fellowship (Heriberto “Andy” Nieves) September 2023
    • 2023 Georgia Tech President’s Undergraduate Research Awards (Fall 2023 PURA) Travel Award, Tarun Vinodkumar
    • 2024 Georgia Tech President’s Undergraduate Research Awards (Spring 2024 PURA), Tarun Vinodkumar
    • 2024 Georgia Tech President’s Undergraduate Research Awards Travel Award for Alexey Khotisky
    • 2024 ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship at EPFL (Fall 2024) for Charles Hong
    • 2024 Goldwater Scholarship for Charles Hong
    • 2024 ARCS Fellowship (Heriberto Andy Nieves)
    • 2024 Georgia Tech President’s Undergraduate Research Awards Travel Award for Alexey Khotisky to attend Rice University’s Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium

Student advising

  • PhD Program (at Georgia Tech, 2008-)

    • Joshua Schultz: PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 2012 – Associate Professor, University of Tulsa
    • Billy Gallagher: PhD in Robotics, 2013 – Robotics Engineer, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
    • David MacNair: PhD in Robotics, 2013 – Academic Professional, Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Melih Turkseven – PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 2016 – Postdoctoral Fellow, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (until 2019), Assistant Professor, Sabanci University, Turkey (2019-)
    • Michael Kim, PhD in Mechanical Engineering 2016, Mechanical Engineering, Auris Health
    • Ellenor Brown – PhD in Applied Physiology 2017 (co-advised with Dr. Shinohara, Applied Physiology), ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow at FDA, Research Scientist at FDA, Apple
    • Euisun Kim, PhD in Mechanical Engineering 2020, Teaching Assistant Professor, Drexel University (September 2021-)
    • Michael Libretto, PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 2021
    • Waiman Meinhold, PhD in Robotics, 2021, Postdoctral Fellow, Georgia Tech (2021-2023)
    • Antonio Moualeu, PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 2022
    • Yingxin Qiu, PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 2022
    • Daniel E. Martinez, PhD in Robotics, 2024
  • MS Program (at Georgia Tech, 2008-)

    • Greg Henderson: MS in Mechanical Engineering, 2012 – Cerdec – U.S. Army
    • Timothy McPherson, MS in Mechanical Engineering, 2012 – Mathworks Inc.
    • Lauren Lacey – MS in Mechanical Engineering, 2014, Sandia National Laboratories
    • Efrain Teran, MS in Mechanical Engineering 2014, Mechanical Engineering – Assistant Professor at the Engineering in Mechanical and Production Sciences, The Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador
    • Chenlu Han, MS in Mechanical Engineering 2014, Mechanical Engineering, Graduate student at the University of British Columbia
    • Quincey Lowery, MS in Mechanical Engineering, ME, Spring 2018, Sandia National Labs
    • Alex Zabaldo, MS in Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2021
    • Shane Kosieradzki, MS in Mechanical Engieering, Spring 2024
  • PhD Program (at NAIST, Japan, 2002-2008)
    • Hiroshi Takemura, PhD in Information Science – Professor, Tokyo Science University.
    • Yuichi Kurita, PhD in Information Science. – Professor, Hiroshima University.
    • Masahiro Kondo, PhD in Information Science. – Nintendo
    • Mind Ding, PhD in Information Science. – Assistant Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (2015-2019), Associate Professor, Nagoya University (2019-)

Service

  • Journal Editorial Board
    • Associate Editor, IFAC Mechatronics Journal
    • Senior Editor, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2023-2024
    • Management Committee, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2018-2022
    • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2017-2022
    • Associate Editor, International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications, 2016-2020
    • Best Paper Award Committee, Member, International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications, 2019, 2020
    • Associate Editor, IEEE RAS Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2015-2018
    • Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 2014-2017
    • Associate (Technical) Editor, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2008-2012
    • Editorial board, Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, April 2004 – March 2005
  • Conference Organization
    • Organizing Committee, Award Chair, IEEE AIM 2027
    • Best Paper and Best Student Paper Award Committee, IEEE/AIM 2023
    • Organizing Committee, General Co-Chair, IEEE 2024 SII
    • Organizing Committee, General Chair, IEEE 2023 SII, in Atlanta
    • Organizing Committee, General Co-Chair, IEEE 2022 SII
    • Organizing Committee, Publication Chair, 2022 IEEE CCTA
    • Conference Editorial Board, Chair, IEEE/ASME Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2021-2023
    • Workshop Chair, ISMR 2020
    • Workshop Chair, 2019 IEEE/ASME Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2019)
    • Organizing Committee, Local Arrangement Chair, 2018 Dynamic Systems and Controls Conference (DSCC)
    • Organizing Committee, Program Co-Chair, 2017 IEEE/ASME Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2017)
    • Organizing Committee, Publication Chair, 2016 IEEE/ASME Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2016)
    • Organizing Committee, Program Co-Chair, IEEE/SICE SII2016
    • Organizing Committee, Publication Chair, 2014 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO2014)
    • Organizing Committee, Young and student member chair, the 2012 ASME Dynamics Systems and Control Conference (DSCC 2012)
  • Conference Program Committee
    • Senior Program Committee, Member, IROS 2023
    • Associate Editor, ASME Dynamics Systems and Control Conference (DSCC), 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
    • Associate Editor, American Control Conference (ACC), 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016
    • Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
    • Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011, 2012, 2013
    • Associate Editor, IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2009, 2013, 2016, 2018
    • Associate Editor, 2013 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO2013, 2014, 2017)
    • Executive Program Committee, The third IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob) 2010
    • Program Committee, Robotics Science and Systems Conference (RSS), 2010, 2014, 2015
    • Program Committee, International Symposium of Medical Robotics (ISMR), 2018, 2019
  • Workshop/special session organization
    • Special Session, Human modeling and augmentation, IEEE/SICE 2023 (with Dr. Kurita)
    • Special Session, Cybersecurity in control systems, IEEE/SICE 2023 (with Dr. Kogiso)
    • Frontier (Special) Session Co-organizer, ASME Dynamics Systems and Control Conference, 2010, 2011, 2012
    • Invited Session Co-organizer on Biosystems and Wearable Devices, ASME Dynamics Systems and Control Conference, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
    • Panel Discussion Session Organizer and Moderator, Panel discussion session on Mechatronics for Biosystems and Healthcare, at the 2010 IEEE/ASME Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics Conference, Montreal, Canada, July 2010
    • Workshop co-organizer, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014)
    • Workshop co-organizer, 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2013)
    • Workshop co-organizer, Biologically-inpired Actuation, the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2011)
  • Journal Special Issue organization
    • Guest Editor, Focused Section on Soft Actuators, Sensors, and Components (SASC), IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (with Drs. Kam Leang, Fumiya Iida, Jamie Paik, and Yonglae Park)
    • Guest Editor, International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications, Intelligent Robotics for Rehabilitation and Human Assistance (with Drs. Jingang Yi and Xiangyang Zhu), 2016
    • Guest Editor, Neural Plasticity on Body Representations: Advancing Translational Rehabilitation” (NPBR), Neural Plasticity (with Drs. Izumi and Ota), 2016
    • Guest Editor, Embodied-Brain Systems Science and Adaptive Intelligence, Advanced Robotics (with Drs. Ota and Pagello), 2016
    • Lead Guest Editor, Focused Section on Sensing Technologies for Biomechatronics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol.16, Issue 5, 2011.
    • Guest Editor (with Dr. Ozawa), Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, No. 7, Vol. 23, October, 2005
  • Others
    • External program evaluator, Moonshot R&D Program, Goal 3 (AI and Robotics), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), July 2023-September 2023
    • External Academic Advisor for “Kobe Medical Initiative” City of Kobe and Kobe University, Japan, 2020-2025
    • Technical Advisor for NITI-ON, Inc
    • Co-Chair, IEEE RAS, Biorobotics TC, 2019-2022
    • Founding Technical Committee Member, IEEE RAS, Technical Committee on Advanced Mechatronics
    • Director for the Robotics PhD Program, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-2017
    • Associate Director of Academic, the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech, 2015-2017
    • National Science Foundation Review Panel, 2010, 2013, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2020
    • Technical Committee Member, Biosystems and Healthcare, ASME Dynamics, Measurement & Control Division, October 2009-present (TC Chair, 2016-2017)
    • Technical Committee Member , Mechatronics, ASME Dynamics, Measurement & Control Division, 2014–present (TC Vice Chair, 2017-2018)
    • Faculty Advisor, Georgia Institute of Technology RoboJackets
    • Robotics REU Advisor, REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE) , National Science Foundation #1263049, 5/1/2013-4/30/2016, PI: Ayanna Howard
    • Training Faculty, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, Training Movement Scientists: Focus on Prosthetics and Orthotics (1T32 HD055180-01A1) at the School of Applied Physiology, Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Student advisor, NRT: Accessibility, Rehabilitation, and Movement Science (ARMS): An Interdisciplinary Traineeship Program in Human-Centered Robotics, National Science Foundation #1545287, 09/01/2015-8/31/2020, PI: Ayanna Howard

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