Director

Prof., Dipl.-Ing, Dr.-Ing Ren C. Luo

  • Irving T.Ho Chair and Distinguished Professor
    Department of Electrical Engineering
  • President,Taiwan R&D Managers Association Hon.
     

Highest Education :
Ph.D. (TU Berlin, Germany)
 

Prof. Luo is currently a distinguished professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University. He is also currently served as President of Robotics Society of Taiwan, and President of Taiwan Hakka Forum Association. Prof. Luo has made research contributions in Sensor-controlled Intelligent Robot system; Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems; Visual Servo Feedback Control Systems; Intelligent Mechatronics Systems; Micro and Nanotechnologies; Rapid Prototyping and Advanced Automation Systems. He is also a Co Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

Prof. Ren C. Luo (M’82 – SM’87 – F’92)-- Prof. Luo was a Research Engineer at Waldrich Siegen GmbH in Germany, and was a Scientific Research Staff at Fraunhofer Institute for Production and Design in Berlin, Germany. With Diplom Ingineure in Germany, he was a Scientific Research Staff in the Institute for Measurement and Control Engineering in Berlin and contributed on design of various sensors integrated control systems. Prof. Luo received his Ph.D from the Technische Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany. He was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in University of Illinois at Chicago and contributed on teaching and research in the area of sensor based robots and flexible automation. He later joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as a Professor and the founding Director of the University of North Carolina System’s Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Prof. Luo was a Toshiba Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Institute of Industrial Science at University of Tokyo, Japan. He has served as Dean of College of Engineering for 6 years at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan. He became President of National Chung Cheng University since 2001 and completed his two terms presidency by 2007. Prof. Luo has made research contributions in Sensor-controlled Intelligent Robot system; Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems; Visual Servo Feedback Control Systems; Intelligent Mechatronics Systems; Micro and Nanotechnologies; Rapid Prototyping and Advanced Automation Systems. Prof. Luo has published more than 300 refereed papers and a number of patents from USA and Taiwan.

Current
Research
Professional Career
Distinguished Achievement

  1. Distinguished Professor of College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taiwan University
  2. Director of Taiwan R&D Managers Association
     

  1. Sensor-controlled Intelligent Robot system
  2. Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems
  3. Visual Servo Feedback Control Systems
  4. Intelligent Mechatronics Systems
  5. Micro and Nanotechnologies
  6. Rapid Prototyping and Advanced Automation Systems
     

於Prof. Luo has published more than 300 refereed papers and a number of patents from USA and Taiwan.

  1. President of National Chung Cheng University (2001-2007).
  2. Dean of the College of Engineering at National Chung Cheng University.
  3. Chairperson of Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at North Carolina State University.
  4. Chair Professor of Tōkyō daigaku.
  5. Tenured professor of Department of Electrical Engineering at North Carolina State University.
  6. Tenured Associate Professor of Department of Electrical Engineering at North Carolina State University.
  7. Assistant Professor of Department of Electrical Engineering at North Carolina State University.
  8. Assistant Professor of University of Illinois
  9. Foreign Thesis Examiner of University of Waterloo.
  10. Foreign Thesis Examiner of Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  11. Chairman of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
  12. President of IEEE society and Editor in Chief in IEEE/ ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
  13. Co Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
  14. Chairman of executive council and science and technology at IEEE
  15. Vice President of Publication at IEEE The Industrial Electronics Society
  16. Vice President of Technology at IEEE The Industrial Electronics Society
  17. Director-general of Chinese Institute of Automation Engineers( CIAE)( 1999-2003)
  18. Director-general of The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of the Republic of China( 2003-2005)
  19. Director of Taiwan SME Association of Business Incubation
  20. Founding Director-general of Changhua- Yunlin- Chiayi University and College Alliance( 2003-2006)
  21. Director-general of Teco Technology Foundation( 2003- Present)
  22. Adviser of Ministry of Economic Affairs, R.O.C. ( 1998-2002)
  23. Advisor on Innovation and Technology of Executive Yuan, R.O.C.( 2003-2004)
  24. Convener of automation category at National Science Council (1999-2002)
  25. Reviewer of Outstanding Research Award at National Science Council
  26. Reviewer of Outstanding talent Award at National Science Council
  27. Advisory Committee Member of automation category at National Science Council
  28. Advisory Committee Member of Electrical Engineering and Control Engineering category at National Science Council
  29. Reviewer of International Collaboration Project (America, Canada, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore…etc)
  30. Director of Taiwan Automation Intelligence and Robotics Association.
  31. Director of Taiwan Hakka Forum Association
  32. Consultant of Taiwan Institute of Economic Research
       

  1. Keynote, Plenary, and Invited Speeches
  2. IEEE Eugean Mittleman Award--“for the Contribution of Intelligent Robotics and Multisensor Fusion Technologies”
  3. IEEE IROS Harashima Award—“for the contributions in the Innovative Technologies in the field of Intelligent Robotics and Systems”
  4. Hornary Citizen Award of Óbuda University
  5. Distinguished Engineering Research Award of North Carolina State University (ALCOA)
  6. Contract Research Award of National Science Council（2005-2011）
  7. Outstanding Engineering Professor Award of Chinese Institute of Engineers
  8. The 8thTECO Technology Award,
  9. Automation Technology Medal)
  10. Best Paper Award( 2013 IEEE International Symposium on ROSE)—“Real Time Human Motion Imitation of Anthropomorphic Dual Arm Robot Based on Cartesian Impedance Control"
  11. Best Paper Award(Automation 2013)—“Hybrid 3D Object Recognition and Tracking Pipeline with Occluded and Cluttered Situation for Service Robotics Applications”