傅立成 Li-Chen Fu
Li-Chen Fu received the B.S. degree from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 1981, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987. Since 1987, he joined National Taiwan University, and has been awarded Irving T. Ho Chair Professor and NTU Chair Professor since 2007 and 2020, respectively. He has also served as the university Secretary General from 2005 to 2008. Currently, he serves as Director of NTU Center for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Advanced Robotics as well as Co-director of MOST (Ministry of Science and Technology)/NTU Joint Research Center for AI Technology and All Vista Healthcare. His areas of research interest include Social Robotics, Smart Home/Healthcare, VR/AR, Visual Detection/Tracking, and Control Theory & Applications.
Dr. Fu has been extremely active and highly regarded in his technical field. He has served as the Program Chairs of 「2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation」and 「2004 IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA)」. For recognition, he was later invited to serve as Director of Control Program under Engineering Department, Ministry of Science & Technology (MOST), Taiwan, during 2010~2012. In terms of the editorial work, he has served as Associate Editor of the prestigious control journal, called Automatica from 1996 to 1999. Starting from 1999, he started a new international control journal, called Asian Journal of Control, and became an Editor-in-Chief of the journal till now. Due to his outstanding academic reputation, he was appointed as Vice-President for Publication of Asian Control Association (ACA) since 2006, and then was elected as President of ACA during 2012–2013. Due to his active role in international control community, he was elected as a Board-of-Governor member of IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) from 2014 to 2016, and later served as the Vice President for Membership of IEEE CSS from 2017~2018.
Dr. Fu has received numerous recognitions for his outstanding performance in research and education during his technical career over more than three decades. Domestically, he has received multiple Distinguished Research Awards from MOST before 2000, Outstanding Youth Medal in 1991, Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award in 1999, Outstanding Control Engineering Award from Chinese Automatic Control Society (CACS) in 2000, Industry-Academia Collaboration Award from Ministry of Education (MOE) in 2004, TECO Technology Award in 2005, Outstanding Research Award from Pan Wen Yuan Foundation in 2012, Y.Z. Hsu Science Award from Y.Z. Hsu Science and Technology Memorial Foundation in 2017, Academic Award as well as National Chair Professorship both from MOE respectively in 2015 and 2019, and Life Achievement Award from CACS in 2019. Internationally, he was awarded IEEE Fellow in 2004, has been elected as a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Control Systems Society from 2013~2015, was awarded 「Wook Hyun Kwon Education Prize」from Asian Control Association in 2015, was elevated to IFAC Fellow in 2016, and was awarded 「Outstanding Service Award」from Asian Control Association in 2017.