主讲人简介：Professor Jian S. Dai, CEng, IEEE Fellow, ASME Fellow, IMechE Fellow, Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professor, is Chair of Mechanisms and Robotics and a pioneer in reconfigurable mechanisms and robots, in origami robots, in ankle rehabilitation robots and in metamorphic robots. He is the director of Advanced Kinematics and Reconfigurable Robotics Lab, School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, King’s College London. He established the field of reconfigurable mechanisms and the sub-field of metamorphic mechanisms in robotics, a concept that could bridge the gap between versatile but expensive robots, and efficient but non-flexible machines, and their applications to health, home and manufacture.
Professor Dai received a BEng in 1982 and an MSc in 1984 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and received a PhD in Advanced Kinematics and Robotics from the University of Salford in the UK in 1993.
Professor Dai is the recipient of 2015 ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Award that is an honor to engineers and scientists who have made a lifelong contribution to the fundamental theory, design and applications of mechanisms and robotic systems. He is the 27th recipient since the award was established in 1974. Professor Dai received many other awards including 2010 Overall Supervisory Excellence Award by King’s College London, 2012 ASME Outstanding Service Award and 2012 Mechanisms Innovation Award, together with several conference and journal Best Paper awards. Professor Dai was recognized by IEEE with IEEE Fellow ‘for contributions to reconfigurable and metamorphic mechanisms in robotics’.
Professor Dai has published over 500 peer-reviewed papers, 4 authored books, 3 edited books, and 13 book chapters, with Google h-index of 47, and i10 index of 170, and citation number over 8000 including a book on 《Geometrical Foundations and Screw Algebra in Mechanisms and Robotics》and a book on《Screw Algebra and Lie Groups, Lie Algebra》by Higher Education Press in Beijing. He serves as Subject Editor of Mechanism and Machine Theory, Associate Editor of ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, and Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science.
Jian is Founder of the ASME/IEEE International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots (ReMAR) and organiser of a series of conferences, workshops and symposia with major scientific relevance (e.g., ASME M&R, IEEE ICRA)
Jian has graduated 27 PhD students who are now affiliated with world-leading universities (e.g., University College London, Imperial College London, Queen Mary University London, University of Salford, University of Strathclyde, Curtin University, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM)), prestigious cooperative companies (e.g., Cambridge Consultants, Goldman Sachs) and setting up successful entrepreneurs (e.g., Movendo Technology, AITREAT Pte Ltd).
