FUZZ-IEEE 2008 Special Session on

        "Recent Advances in Dynamic System Identification and Control"

ORGANISERS:

Description and Motivation

System identification and control has been a research topic of interest to many researchers over the last few decades. Due to the increasing demand from real-world applications, there has been a trend towards online dynamic system identification and control in the recent years. Many fuzzy-logic-based techniques and applications have been attempted by many researchers. This special session will assemble the latest research results from researchers and experts working on this area.           

 IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: December 1, 2007
Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2008
Camera ready copy due: March 1, 2008
Conference: June 1-6, 2008
 

Biography:

Dr Meng Joo Er received his B. Eng and M. Eng degrees in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 1985 and 1988 respectively and a Ph.D degree in Systems Engineering from the Australian National University in 1992. From 1987 to 1989, he worked as a Research and Development Engineer in Chartered Electronics Industries Pte Ltd and a Software Engineer in Telerate Research and Development Pte Ltd respectively. He served as Director of the Intelligent Systems Centre, a University Research Centre co-funded by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Singapore Engineering Technologies from 2003 to 2006. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), NTU.

His research interests include control theory and applications, fuzzy logic and neural networks, computational intelligence, cognitive systems, robotics and automation, sensor networks and biomedical engineering. He has authored two books entitled “Dynamic Fuzzy Neural Networks: Architectures, Algorithms and Applications” and “Engineering Mathematics with Real-World Applications” published by McGraw Hill in 2003 and 2005 respectively, eight book chapters and more than 300 refereed journal and conference papers in his research areas of interest.

Dr. Er was the winner the Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES) Prestigious Publication (Application) Award in 1996 and IES Prestigious Publication (Theory) Award in 2001. In recognition of his outstanding research work as a promising young academic staff, he was awarded a Commonwealth Fellowship tenable at University of Strathclyde from 14 February to 11 October, 2000. Due to his excellent performance in teaching, he received the Teacher of the Year Award for the School of EEE in 1999. He won the Best Session Presentation Award at the World Congress on Computational Intelligence held from 17 to 21 July, 2006 in Vancouver, Canada. Together with his students, he has won more than 20 awards at international and local competitions.
 

He served as the Editor of IES (Institution of Engineers, Singapore) Journal on Electronics and Computer Engineering from 1995 to 2004. Currently, serves as Editor-in-Chief for the IES Journal B on Intelligent Devices and Systems. Furthermore, he serves as an Associate Editor of six refereed international journals, namely IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, Neurocomputing, International Journal of Humanoid Robots, International Journal of Mathematical Control Science and Applications and the Open Electrical and Electronic Engineering Journal.

Dr Er has been invited to present more than 40 technical talks at various International Scientific Meetings. He has also been very active in organizing international conferences serving as Chairman and International Program Committee member of 36 International Conferences. As the General Chair of International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV’2004) which was held from 6 to 9 December, 2004 in Kunming, China, he championed the Conference to a great success with more than 320 delegates from 24 countries and a record number of 920 submissions including 159 invited papers.