INVITED SPEAKERS

Prof. Dr. Danny Hughes KU Leuven, Belgium

Title: Retrofitting Industrial Assets With the IoT: Opportunities and Challenges

 About the Speaker:

Prof. Hughes is the Chief Technical Officer of VersaSense NV, a KU Leuven spin-off company that provides end-to-end industrial Internet of Things solutions. He is also a Professor with the Department of Computer Science of KU Leuven (Belgium), where he is a member of the DistriNet (Distributed Systems and Computer Networks) research group and leads the Networked Embedded Software task-force. Danny has a PhD from Lancaster University (UK) and has previously worked at the University of California at Berkeley (USA), the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (China).

Professor Jason Gu Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Dalhousie University, Canada

Title: Mobile Robotics Systems and Computational Algorithms with Medical and Industrial Applications

 About the Speaker:

Dr. Gu is currently IEEE Canada President-Elect for 2018-2019. Dr. Gu is a professor of Robotics and Assistive Technology in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Dalhousie University, where he also directs the the robotics laboratory for biomedical, rehabilitation and assistive technology. He received his B.S degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Science at the University of Science and Technology of China in 1992 and his Master’s degree from Biomedical Engineering at Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1995 and earned his Ph.D. degree in the area of Rehabilitation Medicine and Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2001 from University of Alberta.
Dr. Gu’s research areas include biomedical engineering, bio-signal processing, rehabilitation engineering, neural networks, robotics, mechatronics and control. Dr. Gu has published over 300 Journal, book chapters and conference papers.
Dr. Gu is the IEEE member of SMC and has been the editor for Journal of Control and Intelligent Systems, Transactions on CSME, IEEE Transaction on Mechatronics, IEEE SMC Magazine International Journal of Robotics and Automation and IEEE Access.
Dr. Gu was a recipient of best paper award in ICCSE 2003. He also was awarded Faculty of Engineering Teaching award (2003), the outstanding IEEE Student Branch Councillor award (2004), Discovery Award of the Province of Nova Scotia in Canada (2005) and Faculty of Engineering Research award (2006). He was the recipient of The IEEE Canada Atlantic Section Murugan Memorial Award (2014) and won the best IEEE ICIA 2014 paper award. He received 2015 Canadian Atlantic Section distinguished service award and 2016 IEEE J. J. Eastern CANADA merit service Award. Dr. Gu is a Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada and also a fellow of Canada Academy of Engineering.