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Professor Chenguang Yang (Charlie) received the B.Eng. in Measurement and Control Technology from Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, and the Ph.D. in Adaptive and Neural Network Control from the National University of Singapore. He completed postdoctoral research in human robotics at Imperial College London, UK. Previously, he held professorships at University of Liverpool, University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) as well as South China University of Technology. He was leading the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group at University of Liverpool and was leading the Robot Teleoperation Group at Bristol Robotics Laboratory. He holds fellowships with Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), Aisa-Pacific AI Association (AAIA), and British Computer Society (BCS). He is a member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA) and a member of National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI).
Professor Yang was selected as a Featured Author on IEEE Xplore in 2023. As lead author, he received the IEEE Transactions on Robotics Best Paper Award in 2012 and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Outstanding Paper Award in 2022. He also was a lead contributor to the 1st Prize of Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) Natural Science Award in 2022. His current research focuses on embodied AI for robot learning, human robot interaction, and intelligent system design.
Professor Yang served as President of Chinese Automation and Computing Society in the UK (2022-2023) and was the Corresponding Co-Chair of the Technical Committee on Collaborative Automation for Flexible Manufacturing with IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) from 2019 to 2025. He was an elected to the Board of Governors of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMC) for 2023-2025, and has been an elected Administrative Committee (AdCom) voting member with IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) since 2023. As a General Chair, Professor Yang organized the IES fully sponsored 25th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT) in the UK, 2024.
Education and Academic Qualifications
- Bachelor of Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University
- Doctor of Philosophy, National University of Singapore
Professional Qualifications
- Member of National Academy of Artificial Intelligence
- Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Fellow of Institution of Mechanical Engineers
- Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology
- Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Fellow of Higher Education Academy
- Fellow of British Computer Society
- Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association
- Chartered Engineer
