Cường was born in Hanoi, Vietnam. He is an alumnus of École Normale Supérieure, rue d’Ulm (France) and holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France). He was a visiting researcher at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) in 2010, and a JSPS Fellow at the University of Tokyo (Japan) in 2011-2013. He joined NTU (Singapore) in 2013 and is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He was a recipient of the Best Paper Award at the conference Robotics: Science and Systems, 2012. His research has featured in major international media, including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Economist, CNN, Science, Nature, etc. He is also a Founder and Director of Eureka Robotics (https://eurekarobotics.com/), a deep-tech startup devoted to solving the toughest automation challenges in manufacturing. Eureka Robotics is a recipient of the 2019 IEEE N3XT Star award.

Primary Areas: Assembly; Compliance and Impedance Control; Compliant Assembly; Dual Arm Manipulation; Dynamics; Ethics and Philosophy; Factory Automation; Force Control; Kinematics; Motion and Path Planning
Secondary Areas: Additive Manufacturing; Industrial Robots; Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents; Perception for Grasping and Manipulation; Planning, Scheduling and Coordination; Robotics in Construction; Software, Middleware and Programming Environments; Task Planning

Associate Editor

Start Date- 1 June 2017

End Date-31 May 2020