T-ASE Editorial Board
Ken Goldberg
Editor in Chief - T-ASE

University of California-Berkeley, IEOR and EECS and School of Information
Mill Valley (CA), United States
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Antonio Bicchi
Editor

University of Pisa
Interdept. Research Center "E. Piaggio"
Pisa (PI), Italy
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Karl Bohringer
Editor

University of Washington
Department of Electrical Engineering
Seattle (WA), United States
Han Ding
Editor

Shanghai Jiaotong University
Robotics Institute
Wuhan, China
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Primary areas: Material/Parts Handling: Manipulation, Assembly, Motion Planning, Grasping, Fixturing, Feeding; Material Processing: Machine Tools, CNC; Mechanisms: Manipulators, Actuators
Secondary areas: Human-Centered Automation: CAD/CAM/CIM, Interfaces; Sensing and Networks: RFID, Networking, Monitoring, Sensor Fusion, Fault Diagnosis, Vision; Theoretical Foundations: Numerical Optimization
Maria-Pia Fanti
Editor
Politecnico di Bari
Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica
Bari, Italy
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Primary areas: Discrete event systems, Petri net and Colored Petri nets; Control and modeling of automated manufacturing systems; Control and modeling of computer integrated systems: Automatic guided vehicle systems, automated storage and retrieval systems, railway networks, urban traffic signals; Supply chain modeling and management.
Secondary areas: Hybrid Systems; Fuzzy sets and Fuzzy Petri nets; Workflow nets; Structural properties of linear systems.
Kevin Lynch
Editor

Northwestern University
Mechanical Engineering Department
Evanston (IL), United States
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Sanjay Sarma
Editor

MIT, ME
Cambridge (MA), United States
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Leyuan Shi
Editor

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dept of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Madison, WI, United States
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Primary areas: Large-scale optimization and simulation with applications in planning and scheduling systems and supply chain management
Secondary areas: Discrete Event systems, optimization in healthcare systems
Dawn Tilbury
Editor

University of Michigan
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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Primary areas: Theoretical Foundations Sensing and Networks Human-Centered Automation Material/Parts Handling Mobility and Navigation Manufacturing
Secondary areas: Discrete Event Systems Theory Petri Nets PLCs Fault Diagnosis Teleoperation Control Theory Networking Wireless SCADA Monitoring AGVs Formal Methods Reliability Logic Verification Simulation
John Wen
EditorRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Cll 8011, 110 8th St.
Troy, NY 12180
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Areas of interest: manipulation, multi-robot systems, building automation, laboratory automation, manufacturing systems, human-robot systems, micro/nano-manipulation, distributed systems.
Mengchu Zhou
Editor

New Jersey Institute of Technology
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Newark, NJ, United States
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Associate Editors
Knut Akesson
Vastra Frolunda, Sweden
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A Sethuraman Arvind Sethuraman
Pudukkottai (Tamilnadu), India
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Timothy Bretl

Xiaoqi Chen

University of Canterbury, NZ
Mechanical Engineering
Christchurch, New Zealand
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Primary areas: Intelligent machines and systems
Secondary areas: Bio-Instrumentation and control.
Chengbin Chu

Ecole Centrale Paris
Laboratoire Genie Industriel
France
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Primary areas: Combinatorial optimization, supply chain and manufacturing systems modeling and optimization, production planning and scheduling
Secondary areas: Performance evaluation, reliability and maintenance, optimal control
Chih-Hsing Chu

National Tsing Hua University
Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
Hsinchu, Taiwan
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Primary areas: Product development, collaborative design, design chain management, and CAD/CAM
Houshang Darabi

University of Illinois
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Chicago (IL), United States
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Mingcong Deng
Koganei (Tokyo), Japan
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Lixin Dong

Michigan State University
East Lansing (MI), United States
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Primary Areas: NanoRobotics, NanoElectroMechanical Systems (NEMS)
Secondary Areas: Mechatronics, Nanoscale Automation Science and Engineering
Mariagrazia Dotoli

Bari, Italy
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Primary Areas: Modeling, Identification and Fault Diagnosis of discrete event systems, Petri nets modeling and control, manufacturing systems simulation and performance evaluation, supply chain modeling and management, logistics and transportation systems modeling, planning and optimization, healthcare systems management and optimization
Secondary Areas: Soft computing control techniques Fuzzy Petri nets
Jean-Marc Faure
Cachan, France
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Rafael Fierro

University of New Mexico
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Albuquerque (NM), United States
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Primary areas: Hybrid and embedded systems, Coordination of multi-agent systems, Optimization-based cooperative control, Mobile sensor networks and robotics
Secondary areas: Nonlinear control systems, nonholonomic systems, motion planning under sensing/communication constraints
Kingsley Fregene
Cherry Hill (NJ), United States
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Primary areas: Unmanned/Robotic Systems Autonomy, Multivehicle control and coordination
Secondary areas: control of aerospace vehicles, Micro/Nano device modeling
Georg Frey

Saarbruecken, Germany
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Primary areas: Logic Control Design and Verification, Software in Automation, Functional Safety, Networked Automation Systems
Secondary areas: Communication in Automation, Cyber Physical Systems, Regenerative Energy Systems, Testing, Modeling and Simulation
Jie Gao

Stony Brook University
Department of Computer Science
Stony Brook (NY), United States
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Primary areas: Algorithms, Sensor Networks, Computational Geometry
Secondary areas: Distributed systems
Quang Phuc Ha
University of Technology
Syndney, Asutralia
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Primary areas: Control Systems, Construction Automation, Estimation & Modelling, Robotic Systems
Secondary areas:Autonomous Vehicles, Cooperative Control, Monitoring, Mechatronic Systems
Mong-Ying Hsieh
Philadelphia (PA), United States
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Qiang Huang
Los Angeles (CA), United States
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Primary areas: Nanomanufacturing and nanoinformatics, scale-up methodology, manufacturing process modeling and control.
Secondary areas: Quality engineering, applied statistics and mathematics
Myong K. Jeong

Rutgers University
Dept. of Industrial and Systems Eng., Center for Operations Research
Piscataway (NJ), United States
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Primary areas: Process monitoring, statistical process control, fault detection, data mining, and machine learning.
Secondary areas: Intelligent transportation systems, wavelets, and applied statistics.
Qing-Shan Jia
Beijing, China
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Leo Joskowicz

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Computer-Assisted Surgery and Medical Image Processing Laboratory School of Engineering and Computer Science
Jerusalem, Israel
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Primary areas: Robotics, motion planning, biomedical engineering
Secondary areas: kinematics, mechanism design
Tomohiro Kawahara
Kitakyushu, Japan
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Primary areas: Micro and Nano Scales; Healthcare and Lifesciences; Manufacturing
Hoong Chuin Lau
Singapore Management University
Singapore
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Primary areas: Logistics, Supply Clean, Management, AL Planning and Scheduling
Secondary areas: Intelligent transportation systems, e-commerce, Health-care operations management, hospitality and lesiure management
Der-Homg Lee
National University of Singapore
Department of Civil Engineering
Singapore
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Primary areas: Traffic simulation, Transportation network, Intelligent transportation systems, Multi-modal transportation logistics
Secondary areas: Airport and aviation management, Maritime and port Management
Bengt Lennartson
Goteborg (Vastra Gotaland), Sweden
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Jean-Jacques Lesage

Cachan, France
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Primary areas: Discrete Event Systems, theory and applications; Petri nets, automata; Formal verification, Model-based diagnosis and identification of DES
Second areas: Response time evaluation in networked automation systems; PLCs based-automation; Fault Trees-based risk assessment
Yangmin Li

University of Macau
Taipa, Macao (SAR China)
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Jingshan Li
General Motors Research & Development Center
Madison (WI), United States
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Primary areas: Manufacturing systems modeling, analysis, design, and control
Secondary areas: Healthcare delivery system modeling and analysis, energy system optimization
Xiaoping Liu

Carleton University, Systems and Computer Engineering
Ottawa (ON), Canada
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Primary areas: Internet Enabled Automation; Teleoperation, Haptics, Self-aware Systems and Automation, Micro- and Nano-manipulation
Secondary areas: Automated Guided Vehicle Systems; Intelligent Systems, Mechatronics
Min Liu
Carleton University
Systems and Computer Engineering
Beijing, China
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Tatsushi Nishi
Toyonaka (Osaka), Japan
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Dan Popa

University of Texas - Arlington
Department of Electrical Engineering
Arlington, TX, United States
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Primary areas: Micro Robotics, Multi-scale Robotics, MEMS, Robotics & Control Systems (Path planning, motion control, sensor networks, human-robot interaction, force control).
Xiangtong Qi

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Kowloon, Hong Kong (SAR China)
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Primary areas: planning and scheduling, inventory control, transportation and logistics
Secondary areas: Supply chain management, manpower planning, optimization algorithm design
Elzbieta Roszkowska

Wroclaw University of Technology
Institute of Computer Engineering, Automation and Robotics
Wroclaw, Poland
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Primary areas: Theory and applications of Discrete Event Systems (DES), DES-based control, operating system principles, multi-agent systems, algorithms and computational complexity
Secondary areas: Multi-robot systems, multi-agent systems, Operating system concepts, synchronization and communication in systems of concurrent processes, Artificial Intelligence in control applications.
Kiam Tian Seow
Nanyang Technological University
School of Computer Engineering
Singapore
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Primary areas: Intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, supervisory control of discrete-event systems and temporal logic, with emphasis on their mutual connections and applications in automation
Secondary areas: Logical and real-time discrete-event modeling and control of robots and data center networks; agent-based modeling, control and coordination of intelligent transportation systems
Weiming Shen
National Research Council of Canada
London (ON), Canada
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Yu Sun

University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada
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Primary areas: Large-scale optimization and simulation with applications in planning and scheduling systems and supply chain management
Secondary areas: Discrete Event systems, optimization in healthcare systems
Wei Tan
Elmsford (NY), United States
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Ying (Gina) Tang

Rowan University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Glassboro (NJ), United States
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Primary areas: Modeling, scheduling and optimization of discrete event systems; Petri Net applications; Modeling and control of computer-integrated systems; Multi-lifecycle Engineering (mainly disassembly modeling and planning)
Secondary areas: Supply Chain management; Optimization in Healthcare Management; Machine learning
Herbert Tanner

University of Delaware
Newark (DE), United States
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Primary areas: Interconnected multi-agent systems: planning, stability and control; Mobile Sensor Networks: coordination, motion and topology control; Hybrid Systems: automatic planning of cooperative behavior in heterogeneous agent groups through abstraction and formal methods; Robotics: mobile manipulator motion planning and control, position/force control; Nonlinear Control: underactuated and nonholonomic systems, discontinuous and switching feedback control.
Biagio Turchiano

Politecnico di Bari
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Italy
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Primary areas: Modeling, analysis, and synthesis of concurrent systems; Formal modeling and analysis techniques for distributed systems and distributed software; and Web services and web processes.
Leena Ukkonen

Tampere, Finland
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Primary areas: Radio frequency identification (RFID) systems, wireless sensing systems
Secondary areas: Intelligent transportation systems, pervasive computing
A.Frank VanDerStappen

Utrecht University
Department of Information and Computing Sciences
Utrecht, Netherlands
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Primary areas: Computational geometry, Algorithms and complexity, Manipulation planning, Motion planning
Secondary areas: Simulation, Virtual environments, High-performance computing
Birgit Bogel-Heuser

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Richard Voyles

Utrecht University
Department of Information and Computing Sciences
Denver (CO), United States
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Primary areas: Robotics, Mechatronics, Sensor Networks, Sensing, Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks, Cyber-Physical Systems
Secondary areas: Sensor Fusion, Control Networks, Human/Machine Interface
Naiqi Wu

Guandong University of Technology
Dept. of Industrial Engineering
Guangzhou (Guangdong), China
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Primary areas: Production planning and scheduling, Manufacturing automation, Discrete event systems, Petri net, Manufacturing system
Secondary areas: Transportation, Information assurance
Jingang Yi

Piscataway (NJ), United States
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Milos Zefran

Chicago (IL), United States
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Primary areas: Dynamics and Control, Networked Robot Systems
Secondary areas: Motion Planning
Shiyu Zhou

University of Wisconsin
United States
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Primary areas: Quality control
Secondary areas: Data mining, machine learning






