Dr. Andrew Ng is an Associate Professor with Singapore Institute of Technology. He is the Programme Leader of the Master of Engineering Technology and the Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering (Land). Moreover, Dr. Ng is a Chartered Engineer with the UK Engineering Council and serves on the committees of various international and local professional engineering institutions, such as Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES), Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE). He is a Senior Member of IEEE and IES; a Consultant and Advisor to startups and multinational corporations; and a Topic Editor of Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute journals. In addition, Dr. Ng is a Principal Investigator of several grants amounting to more than SGD 1.5 million. He holds one international patent and has over 30 publications as both first and corresponding author. His research and development innovations have also garnered him several prestigious awards, such as Outstanding Researcher Award, Teaching Excellence Award, Amity Researcher Award, Young Investigator Award, and National Instruments Editor’s Choice Engineering Impact Award. Furthermore, Dr. Ng has been a keynote and an invited speaker at various international conferences.

Dr. Chee Khiang Pang, Justin, received the B.Eng.(Hons.), M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees in 2001, 2003, and 2007, respectively, all in electrical and computer engineering, from National University of Singapore (NUS). In 2003, he was a Visiting Fellow in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE), University of Queensland (UQ), St. Lucia, QLD, Australia. From 2006 to 2008, he was a Researcher (Tenure) with Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., Kokubunji, Tokyo, Japan. In 2007, he was a Visiting Academic in the School of ITEE, UQ, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia. From 2008 to 2009, he was a Visiting Research Professor in the Automation & Robotics Research Institute (ARRI), University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), Fort Worth, TX, USA. From 2009 to 2016, he was an Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), NUS, Singapore. Currently, he is an Associate Professor and Programme Director in Engineering Cluster, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore, where he also set up the joint B.Eng.(Hons.) degree programme on electronics and data engineering with Technical University of Munich (TUM). From 2018 to 2019, he was the Chairman of IEEE Control Systems Chapter of Singapore. Under his leadership, the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Chapter of Singapore won the IEEE CSS Outstanding Chapter Award in 2018. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Member of ASME. His research interests are on data-driven control and optimization, with realistic applications to robotics, mechatronics, and manufacturing systems. Dr. Pang is an author/editor of 4 research monographs including Intelligent Diagnosis and Prognosis of Industrial Networked Systems (CRC Press, 2011), High-Speed Precision Motion Control (CRC Press, 2011), Advances in High-Performance Motion Control of Mechatronic Systems (CRC Press, 2013), and Multi-Stage Actuation Systems and Control (CRC Press, 2019). He is currently serving as an Executive Editor for Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, an Associate Editor for Asian Journal of Control, Unmanned Systems, and on the Conference Editorial Board for IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS). He had previously served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Control Systems Letters and Journal of Defense Modeling & Simulation. He was the recipient of The Best Application Paper Award in The 8th Asian Control Conference (ASCC 2011), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2011, and the Best Paper Award in the IASTED International Conference on Engineering and Applied Science (EAS 2012), Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2012.