Keynote Speakers

Prof. Chiharu Ishii
Hosei University, Japan

Biography: Chiharu Ishii received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Sophia University, Japan in 1997. He worked at Ashikaga Institute of Technology between 1997 and 2002, at Kogakuin University between 2002 and 2009, and at Shibaura Institute of Technology between 2009 and 2010. He has been working at Hosei University since 2010, and currently working as a Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering at Hosei University. Dr. Chiharu Ishii has received several awards such as The Best Paper Award in the area of Tactile and Haptic Interfaces at the 4th International Conference on Human System Interaction (HSI 2011); Best Paper Award at the 1st International Conference on Computer Science, Electronics and Instrumentation (ICCSE 2012); Best Presentation Award at the International Conference on Intelligent Mechatronics and Automation (ICIMA 2013); Excellent Oral Presentation Award, at the 4th International Conference on Soft Computing & Machine Intelligence (ISCMI 2017). He is currently a member of IEEE, SICE, JSME, RSJ, IEEJ and JSCAS. His research interests are in medical robotics, assistive technology and robust control.

Prof. Ying Li
Flensburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Biography: Ying Li is full Professor of Machine Dynamics and Technical Mechanics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Flensburg University of Applied Sciences FUAS, Flensburg, Germany since 2020. His research areas: Machine/ Structural Dynamics, Adaptronics, Active Vibration Control and Sensitivity Analysis.
Before becoming a professor, he was Fraunhofer Chief Representative for China and worked as China Referent at Headquarters of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Munich, Germany. He has also worked as R&D Engineer at Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Oberkochen, Germany) and Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
Ying Li received his PhD from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He then became a research scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability in Darmstadt, Germany.