Keynote Speaker 4: Prof. Shamsudin H.M. Amin Professor of Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering
Dr. Shamsudin H.M. Amin is a Professor of Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He is attached to the Centre of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIRO) as well as at the Department of Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, UTM. He has served in UTM since 1980 in various positions. Currently he is a deputy Dean in charge of Graduate Studies and Research.
He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering in Control Systems in 1980 from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. He later obtained his MSc. and Ph.D from the same University. He has served as an active member of IEEE Malaysia, and was chairman for the year 2001-2002. He is a member of the Asian Control Professors Association since 1996. He is the Convenor for the Robotics Round Table, a forum for 45 researchers in robotics field in Malaysia (looking into medical robotics, agriculture robots, robots in manufacturing industry, humanoids, robots in construction industry, vision based robotics). He has also served as a member of International Program Committee in numerous international conferences, including as Advisor to the inaugural SCOReD in 2001.
He is the Chief Editor of Jurnal Teknologi D: Electronics, Control, Telecommunications and Information Technology, national journal published by UTM Press since 1998. He is also an associate editor for Polytechnica, a journal published in Budapest Hungary. In 2004 he received UTM's excellent service award, and in 2007 received award for journal article publication.
His research interests: Intelligent mobile robots, biologically inspired robots, vision system for automated inspection, wall climbing robots, multi-agent robotic systems, behaviour-based robotics and humanoids. He has led UTM Robocon team to represent Malaysia in 2003, 2004, 2005.
From 2001-2005, he served as a member of the Prioritised Research Technical Committee for IRPA, a national research funding body at Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. He is a steering committee member of the International Conference on Mechatronics Technology and founding member of the Asian Mechatronics Association.
