- General Chair of the 2nd IFAC International Conference on Intelligent Control Systems and Signal Processing, ICONS 2009, Sept. 21-23, 2009 Istanbul, Turkey.
- General Chair of the International Symposium on Optomechatronic Technologies, ISOT 2009, Sept. 21-23, 2009 Istanbul, Turkey.
- General Chair of 10th
International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems - VSS 2008, 8-10 June
2008, Antalya, Turkey.
- General Chair of IEEE
International Electric Machines and Drives Conference - IEMDC 2007, 3-5 May
2007, Antalya, Turkey.
- General Chair of ICSC
Congress on Computational Intelligence: Methods and Applications, Dec.
15-17, 2005, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Technical Program
Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control
and Instrumentation; IECON'2004, 6-9 Nov. 2004, Busan, Korea.
- General Chair of 12th
Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation: MED'04 (June 6-9, 2004,
Kusadasi, Izmir, Turkey)
- General Chair of
International Conference on Mechatronics:ICM'04 (June 3-5, 2004, Istanbul,
Turkey)
- General Chair of 5th
International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education
and Training: ITHET 2004 (May 31-June 2, 2004, Istanbul, Turkey)
- Technical Program
Co-Chair of IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics- ISIE
2003 (June 9-12, 2003, Rio de Janerio, Brazil)
- General Chair of
International Fuzzy Systems Association Congress, IFSA 2003 (29 June - 2
July 2003, Istanbul, Turkey).
- General Chair of Joint
13th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and
10th International Conference on Neural Information Processing- ICANN/ICONIP
2003 (26-29 June 2003, Istanbul, Turkey).
- General Chair of IEEE
Conference on Control Applications, CCA 2003 (23-25 June 2003, Istanbul,
Turkey)
- Vice Co-Chair of 3rd
Int. Conf. on Information Technology based Higher Education and Training -
ITHET 2002 (Budapest, Hungary, July 4-6, 2002).
- General Chair of Int.
Conf. on Information Technology in Mechatronics - ITM 2002 (Istanbul, Oct.
3-5, 2001).
- Vice Co-Chair of 2nd
Int. Conf. on Information Technology based Higher Education and Training -
ITHET 2001 (Kumamoto, Japan, July 4-6, 2001).
- General Chair of Int.
Conf. on Information Technology based Higher Education and Training - ITHET
2000 (Istanbul, July 3-5, 2000).
- Has served on Advisory,
Organizing and/or International Program Committees of numerous international
meetings.
- Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2009 -
..)
- Associate Editor of
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2008 - -..)
- Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal (2006 ---.).
- Guest Editor of IEEE
Trans. Industrial Electronics, Industrial Applications of Sliding Mode
Control, 2008.
- Member of Executive
Scientific Board of International Journal on Interactive Design and
Manufacturing (Springer), (2007 - --.)
- Member of Editoroial Board of Applied Soft Computing (2007 - --.)
- Guest Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Education, Special Issue on Plagiarism, 2007.
- Associate Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Sensors (2006 ---.).
- Area (Robotics and
Mechatronics) Editor of Springer-Verlag Int. Journal on Soft Computing
(2006-2008.).
- Editor-in-Chief of IEEE
Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2005 - 2006).
- Associate Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Neural Networks (2002 - 2005).
- Associate Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Industrial Electronics (1995 - -..).
- Guest Editor of
International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Special
Issue on Learning in Intelligent Systems, 2003.
- Guest Editor (with Yavuz
Akpinar) of Industry & Higher Education, Special Issue on ITHET 2000 -
Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, v. 15, no: 2,
April 2001.
- Guest Editor of IEEE
Trans. Industrial Electronics, Special Section on Computationally
Intelligent Methodologies and Sliding-Mode Control, v. 48, no: 1, Feb. 2001
- Guest Editor of Robotics
and Autonomous Systems, Special Issue on Mechatronics, vol. 19, no: 2, Dec.
1996.
- Guest Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Special Section on Mechatronics,
vol. 43, no: 1, February 1996.
- Guest Editor (with
Gunduz Ulusoy) of Industry & Higher Education, Special Issue on Technology
Management: University-Industry-Government Collaboration, v. 10, no: 6,
December 1996.
- Member of Management
Committee of IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (Jan.. 1995 - Dec. 1998,
Jan. 2001--..).
- Member of Editorial
Board of the KAIST Press journal; Neural Information Processing - Letters
and Reviews (May 2003 - -.).
- Member of Editorial
Board of the Elsevier journal; International Journal of Computational
Intelligence and
Applications (Oct.. 2001
- -.).
- Member of Editorial
Board of the Elsevier journal; Applied Soft Computing (Jan. 2001 - -.).
- Member of Editorial
Board of Asian Jornal of Control (Jan. 2001 - -.).
- Member of Editorial
Board of International Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence (1997
-....).
- Member of Advisory Board
of the Journal on Industry & Higher Education (1996 -....).
- Member of Editorial
Board of IEEE Spectrum (Jan. 1996 - Dec. 1998).
- Occasionally referees
papers for
-
Automatica
-
IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems
-
IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and
Cybernetics
-
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
-
Int. J. of Control
-
Many others
- Presented a keynote during 3rd International Conference on Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics (3rd ICMEM), Beijing, P.R.China, October 21 - 23, 2009.
- Presented a tutorial during IEEE Symposium in Industrial Electronics and Applications – ISIEA 2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 4-6 October 2009.
- Presented a seminar at the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), Hong Kong, 25 August 2009.
- Presented a plenary talk during the Federation of International Robot-soccer Association (FIRA) Congress, Incheon, Korea, 16-18 August, 2009.
- Pressented a plenary talk during the International Symposium on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications, INISTA 2009, June 29-July 1, 2009.
- Presented a keynote talk at The 2nd Conference on Automotive Electronics Industry, Tehran, Iran, 4-5 February 2009.
-
Presented a keynote talk at International
Conference on Mechatronics, - ICOM 2008,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 18-20
December 2008.
- Presented a keynote talk at
2nd Int. Symp. on Systems and Control in Aeronautics and Astronautics- ISSCAA
2008, Shenzhen, China,10 -12 December 2008.
- Presented an invited talk at
XV Congreso Internacional de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Sistemas,
-INTERCON 2008,- Trujillo-Peru, 4-8 August 2008.
- Conducted a mechatronics
training course on mechatronics in Rabat, Morocco on invitation from Islamic
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), during Feb. 11-15,
2008.
- Conducted a mechatronics
training course on mechatronics in Jakarta, Indonesia on invitation from Islamic
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), during Dec. 15-19,
2007.
- Presented a keynote talk
during the International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics,
ICMEM2007, November 5-7, 2007 in Wuxi, P. R. China.
- Presented seminars on
mechatronics at various universities in Malaysia within the Distinguished
Lecturer Program of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 7-11 August 2007.
- Presented a plenary talk
during the 2nd IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA
2007, 23-25 May 2007, Harbin, China.
- Presented a plenary talk
during 2nd Asia International Symposium on Mechatronics (AISM 2006), December,
11-14, 2006, Hong Kong, China.
- Presented a plenary talk
during 2006 International Conference on Intelligent Computing, August 16-19,
2006, Kunming, China.
- Presented a plenary talk
during IEEE 7th Int. Conf. On Information Technology Based Education
and Training, ITHET 2006, 10-13 July 2006, Sydney, Australia.
- Presented an invited talk
during National Instruments Academic Day, 6-7 July 2006, Beirut, Lebanon.
- Presented seminars on
intelligent systems at Xian Jiaotong University and Shenyang Northeastern
University China on invitation by the stated universities during June 28 - July
3, 2006.
-
Presented a plenary talk at The First International Conference on Engineering of
Intelligent Systems,
Islamabad, Pakistan, April 22-23, 2006.
- Presented seminars on
mechatronics at Pachuca, Mexico on invitation by Universidad Politénica de
Pachuca during Feb. 13-14, 2006.
- Presented an invited seminar
at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennesse, USA titled -Intelligent Systems:
An Assesment of the Past and the Prospects for the Future- on February 7, 2006.
- Presented a plenary talk at
1st International Symposium on Systems and Control in Aerospace and
Astronautics: ISSCAA 2006, Jan. 19-21, 2006, Harbin, China.
- Presented a plenary talk at
International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling Control and
Automation - CIMCA'2005, Nov. 28-30, 2005, Vienna - Austria.
- Presented an invited
-research lecture- at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (one
of the research institutes of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research:
A*STAR),
titled, -Industrial Informatics in 21st Century- on August 15, 2005.
- Presented a tutorial during
the International Syposium on Neural networks (ISNN 2005), Chongqing, China, May
30-June 2, 2005.
- Presented a seminar as an
ARRI Distinguished Lecturer at University of Texas at Arlington, USA titled
-Mechatronics in 21st Century- on February 27, 2004.
- Presented an invited seminar
at Auburn University, Alabama, USA titled -Mechatronics in 21st
Century- on February 27, 2004.
- Presented two seminars on
mechatronics and VSS thory based learning at Tebriz University, Iran during
December 2-5, 2004.
- Presented a plenary talk
during the Joint 2nd International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent
Systems and 5th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems - SCIS &
ISIS 2004, titled -Intelligent Systems: An Assesment of the Past and the
Prospects for the Future,- September, 21-24, 2004, Yokohama, Japan.
- Presented a plenary talk
during the 6th IASTED Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control - ISC 2004,
titled -Evolution of Intelligent Systems,- August 23-25, 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii,
USA.
- Presented a plenary talk
during the First AUS (American Universty of Sharjah) International Symposium on
Mechatronics, titled -Mechatronics in 21st Century,- May 25-27, 2004,
Sharja, UAE.
- Presented a keynote speech
during the opening session of IEEE International Symposium on Industrial
Electronics: ISIE 2004, titled -Industrial Electronics in the 21st Century,- May
4-7, 2004, Ajaccio, France.
- Presented an invited
lecture, titled -Mechatronics in 21st Century- at Pusan National
University, Pusan, Rep. of Korea, on Sept. 24, 2003.
- Presented invited lectures
and seminars on -Variable Structure Systems Theory and its Applications in
Intelligent Systems- at Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, during
Sept. 15-20, 2003.
- Presented a tutorial during
2003 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, ISIE 2003; June
9-12, 2003, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Presented a keynote speech
during 2002 IEEE Conference on Industrial Technology, titled -Mechatronics in
the 21st Century Dec. 11-14, 2002, Bangkok, Thailand.
- Presented invited lectures
and seminars on -Responding to Issues and Trends in Mechatronics in the 21st
Century- at AMA Computer University, Manilla, Phillipines, during Sept. 23-24,
2002.
- Presented a tutorial during
the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2002, August
27-31 2002 , Madrid, Spain.
- Presented a tutorial during
The 27th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society: IECON01,
Nov. 29 - Dec. 2, 2001, Denver, USA.
- Presented an invited talk
during the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Limitations and Future Trends in
Neural Computation, Oct. 22-24, 2001, Siena, Italy.
- Presented an invited talk
during the 2nd International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher
Education and Training 2001: ITHET 2001, July 4-6, 2001, Kumamoto City, Japan.
- Presented the keynote talk
during the First International Conference on Mechatronics - ICOM-01; 11-12
February 2001, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.
- Presented a tutorial during
the IEEE 26th Int. Conf. on Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation;
IECON 2000, 22-28 October 2000, Nagoya, Japan.
- Presented a plenary talk
during the 2000 International Symposium on Mechatronics and Intelligent
Mechanical System for 21 Century (ISIM2000), 4-6 October 2000, KyongSangNam-Do,
South Korea.
- Directed a workshop during
the IEEE 25th Int. Conf. on Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation;
IECON'99, 29 Nov. - 3 December 1999, San Jose, U.S.A.
- Presented a plenary
(opening) talk during the Jubilee Conference of Banki Donat Polytechnic, 1-3
September 1999, Budapest, Hungary.
- Presented a tutorial during
the IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE'99), 12-16
July, 1999, Bled, Slovenia.
- Presented a tutorial during
the IEEE 24th Int. Conf. on Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation;
IECON'98, Aug. 31 - Sept. 4, 1998, Aachen, Germany.
- Presented a public lecture
on invitation from National University Singapore, during the Singapore Robotics
Games '98, on 22 May 1998
- Presented the keynote
address during the IEEE 23rd Int. Conf. on Industrial Electronics, Control and
Instrumentation; IECON'97, Nov. 10-14, 1997, New Orleans, USA.
- Presented an invited talk
during the Spring Conference of Korean Mechanical Engineers, Pusan National
University, Pusan, Korea, April 18, 1996.
- Presented an invited paper
during IEEE Int. Workshop on Neuro-Fuzzy Control, Muroran, Japan, March 22-23,
1993.
- Presented an invited paper
during IEEE Int. Workshop on Advanced Motion Control, AMC '92, Nagoya, Japan,
March 15-18, 1992.
V. External Examinations
- Ph. D. Thesis, A Neuro-Fuzzy
Equaliser for Channel Distorsion, by Tayseer A.M. Alsanableh, Near East
University, Northern Cyprus Turkish Republic, 2007.
- Ph. D. Thesis, Fault
Diagnostics and Vibration Control of Paper Winders by Timo Virtanen, Helsinki
University of Technology, The Netherlands, 2006.
- M. Sc. Thesis, Design and
Implementation of Real-time Neural Control Systems by Sarah Pule, University of
Malta, Malta, 2005.
- Ph. D. Thesis, Development
of Learning Control Algorithms by Zhao Shao, National University of Singapore,
Singapore, 2005.
- M. Sc. Thesis, High
Precision Optimum Control of a Linear Motor Drive Using Genetic Algorithm, by
Keck Meng Teck, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2000.
- Ph. D. Thesis, Control of
Planar Flexible-Link Robots, by Yang Hong, National University of Singapore,
1999.
- M. Sc. Thesis, The Design
and Building of a 4-Legged Walking Machine, by Cheong Choon Ghee, National
University of Singapore, 1998
- M. Sc. Thesis, Trajectory
Following of a Robotic Manipulator, by Ding Ming Zohn, National University of
Singapore, 1998
- Ph. D. Thesis, Actuation
Redundancy Control of 2 Co-operating Industrial Robots, by Dilek Bilgin Tukel,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1997.
Ph. D. Thesis,
Unconventional Control of Industriaql Energetic Processes of Large Scale Heating
Furnaces, by Milne Stankovski, Sts. Cyril and Methodius University, Rep. of
Macedonia, 1997.
