Conference Speakers

CACRE 2025 Speakers


 

Prof. Mitsuhiro Hayashibe
(Keynote Speaker)

Tohoku University, Japan

Keynote Lecture: TBA

Abstract: TBA

Biography: Dr. Mitsuhiro Hayashibe is a Professor at the Department of Robotics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan, and founder of the Neuro-Robotics Lab since 2017. He is concurrently with the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Tohoku University. He obtained PhD at University of Tokyo in 2005, and the Habilitation degree at University of Montpellier in 2015. He was previously an Assistant Professor with the Department of Medicine, Tokyo Jikei University School of Medicine (東京慈恵会医科大学医学部) for 2001-2006, and a Tenured Research Scientist with INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, フランス国立情報学自動制御研究所) and University of Montpellier, France for 2008-2017. He has been a visiting researcher at RIKEN Center for Brain Science and TOYOTA Collaboration Center (理化学研究所 脳神経科学研究センター) since 2012, also at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, スイス連邦工科大学ローザンヌ校) for 2016 with Swiss National Science Foundation grant. He is co-chair of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee on Human Movement Understanding. He was awarded with the 15th Annual Delsys Prize 2017 for Innovation in Electromyography from De Luca Foundation, USA.

 

Prof. Hongliang REN
(Keynote Speaker)

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong, China

Keynote Lecture: Compliant surgical motion generation and perception towards intelligent minimally invasive robotic procedures

Abstract: Minimally Invasive Surgeries (MIS) emerging in modern medical treatment have brought new opportunities and challenges for procedure-specific surgical motion generation and the associated motion understanding, which are the foundation of intelligent robotic manipulation and guiding interventions. Image-guided robotic surgery is expected to increase the precision, flexibility, and repeatability of surgical procedures but poses challenges for system development. This talk will highlight our recent developments in dexterous robotic motion generation with motion perception towards intelligent image-guided minimally invasive procedures. The procedure-specific telerobotic surgical systems can assist surgeons in performing dexterous manipulations using continuum motion generation mechanisms with variable stiffness and context awareness.

Biography: Prof. Hongliang Ren received his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering (Specialized in Biomedical Engineering) from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2008. He has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science & Engineering (T-ASE) and Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing (MBEC). He has navigated his academic journey through Chinese University of Hong Kong, Johns Hopkins University, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Children’s National Medical Center, United States, and National University of Singapore (NUS).
     His areas of interest include biorobotics, intelligent control, medical mechatronics, soft continuum robots, soft sensors, and multisensory learning in medical robotics. He is the recipient of CUHK Young Researcher Award, NUS Young Investigator Award and Engineering Young Researcher Award, IAMBE Early Career Award 2018, Interstellar Early Career Investigator Award 2018, ICBHI Young Investigator Award 2019, and Health Longevity Catalyst Award 2022 by NAM & RGC, Best Paper Awards in IEEE-ROBIO (2019 & 2013), IEEE-RCAR2016, IEEE-CCECE2015, IEEE-Cyber2014 among 30+ others awards.
     He has been constantly listed among the world’s top 2% of the most-cited scientists by Stanford University in the career-long category.
     He frequently served as an expert reviewer/judge for international funding agencies (60+ proposal reviews) of 10+ countries/regions (including Switzerland, Belgium, UK, Kazakhstan, Poland, Hong Kong, Macau, Chilean, China, Singapore etc.)

 





CACRE Past Speakers


  • Prof. Peter Corke

    The Queensland University of Technology, Australia

  • Prof. Seth Hutchinson

    Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

  • Prof. Dan Zhang

    Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HKSAR, China

  • Prof. Feng Gao

    Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

  • Prof. Rong Xiong

    Zhejiang University, China

  • Prof. Elizabeth Croft

    University of Victoria, Canada

  • Prof. Silvia Ferrari

    Cornell University, USA

  • Prof. Hugh H.T. Liu

    University of Toronto, Canada

  • Prof. Jie Chen

    The City University of Hong Kong, China

  • Prof. Bin Zi

    Hefei University of Technology, China

  • Prof. Dongbin Zhao

    Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

  • Prof. Iain D. Couzin

    University of Konstanz, Germany

  • Prof. Kenji Fujimoto

    Kyoto University, Japan

  • Prof. Genci Capi

    Hosei University, Japan

  • Prof. Yang Shi

    University of Victoria, Canada

  • Prof. Jiancheng Yu

    Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

  • Prof. Michael Y. Wang

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKSAR, China

  • Prof. Guangren Duan

    Harbin Institute of Technology, China

  • Prof. Yiming Rong

    Southern University of Science and Technology of China, China

  • Prof. Du Ruxu

    South China University of Technology, China

  • Prof. Ya-Jun Pan

    Dalhousie University, Canada

  • Prof. Wenqiang Zhang

    Fudan University, China

  • Prof. Jonathan Wu

    University of Windsor, Canada

  • Prof. Fumin Zhang

    Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

  • Prof. Jing Sun

    University of Michigan, USA

  • Prof. Xinjun Liu

    Tsinghua University, China

  • Prof. Xianbo Xiang

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

  • Prof. Sebastian Scherer

    Carnegie Mellon
    University, USA

  • Prof. Xuechao Duan

    Xidian University, China

  • Prof. Xiaoli Bai

    Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey, USA

  • Prof. Ji-Hong Li

    Korea Institute of Robotics and Technology Convergence, South Korea

  • Prof. Dong Eui Chang

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea

  • Prof. Xianping Fu

    Dalian Maritime University, China

  • Prof. Zhufeng Shao

    Tsinghua University, China

  • Prof. Yifei Pu

    Sichuan University, China

  • Dr. Simon K.S. Cheung

    Open University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China

  • Prof. Wei Zhang

    Southern University of Science and Technology, China

  • Prof. Hongyu Yu

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

  • Prof. Bin Li

    Sichuan University, China

  • Dr.Jan Faigl

    Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

  • Prof. Hongde Qin

    Harbin Engineering University, China

  • Prof. Ye Yuan

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

  • Prof. Bo Li

    Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

  • Prof. Zhengkun Yi

    Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

  • Prof. Chunhui Zhao

    Zhejiang University, China

  • Prof. Wencen Wu

    San Jose State University, USA

  • Prof. Fei Miao

    University of Connecticut, USA

  • Assoc. Prof. Yue Gao

    Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

  • Dr. Yuyang Zhou

    Edinburgh Napier University, UK