Professional Services

• IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMech)
  • Editor-in-Chief (EiC), 2008 - present
  • EiC-Elect, 2007
  • Technical Editor, 1995-1999
  • Guest Editor, August 2006, June 2002, June 2000, June 1997
• IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM)

  • General Co-chairman,  IEEE/ASME AIM’97, June 16-20, Tokyo, Japan

  • General Chair, IEEE/ASME AIM’99, September 20-24, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  • Program Chair, IEEE/ASME AIM2005, July 24–28, Monterey, California, USA
  • Publicity Chair, IEEE/ASME AIM2007, September 4-7, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • ASME Liaison, 1997 - present
  • AIM Advisory Committee Co-Chair
• IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Associate Editor, 1994–1998
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Associate Editor, 1994–1996
  • IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on utomation Science and Engineering (TASE), Associate Editor, 2003–2005
  • TASE Proposal Committee, 2002-2003; New Transactions Exploratory Committee, 2001–2002
  • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA1993 Local Arrangement Committee Chairperson
  • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA2005 Kayamori Best Paper Award Committee Chair
  • IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS2006 Program Co-chair
• ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division (DSCD) Technical Committee (TC) on Mechatronics
  • Award Committee Chair on Best Paper in Mechatronics (2006-2008)
  • TC Chair (2009)
  • Past Chair (2010)

Honors and Awards

• 2011 “Most Practical SHM Solution for Civil Infrastructures” Award, IWSHM2011
• 2006 ISCIE/ASME ISFA2006 Best Paper Award (Theory)
• 2000 IEEE ICRA Kayamori Best Paper Award
• 1994 Best Paper Award - The 4th Annual CIMAT Conference, RPI.
• 1994 Woodruff Faculty Fellow
• 1992 Invention Club of America New Technology Award
• 1989 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award
• 1989 Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Junior Faculty Award
• As advisor for the following best student paper awards:
  • 1992 Best Student Paper in SME Applied Vision ‘92 (Janakiraman, Shanker)
  • 1993 SAIC Best MS Student Paper Award (Scheuring, Joseph F. III )
  • 1994 SAIC Best Ph.D. Student Paper Award (Zhou, Zhi)
  • 1994 Sigma Xi Best MS Thesis Award (Scheuring, Joseph F. III)
  • 1999 SAIC Best Ph.D. Student Paper Award (Garner, Harry)
  • 2001 SAIC Best Ph.D. Student Paper Award (Wei, Zhiyong)
  • 2003 SAIC Best Ph.D. Student Paper Award (Yin, Xuecheng)
  • 2005 IEEE/ASME AIM2005 Best Student Paper Award (Li, Qiang)
  • 2010 DSCD Best Student Conference Paper Award on Mechatronics (Liu, Fangfang)