Prof. Mingcong Deng

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

Biography: Prof. Mingcong Deng (IEEE Fellow) received his PhD in Systems Science from Kumamoto University, Japan, in 1997. From 1997.04 to 2010.09, he was with Kumamoto University; University of Exeter, UK; NTT Communication Science Laboratories; Okayama University. From 2010.10, he has been with Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan, as a professor. Now he is the Chair of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Prof. Deng specializes in three complementary areas: Operator based nonlinear fault detection and fault tolerant control design; System design on human factor based robot control; Learning based nonlinear control. Prof. Deng has over 650 publications including 220 journal papers in peer reviewed journals including IEEE Press and other top tier outlets. He serves as a chief editor for 2 international journals, and associate editors of 6 international journals. Prof. Deng is a co-chair of agricultural robotics and automation technical committee, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society; Also a chair of the environmental sensing, networking, and decision making technical committee, IEEE SMC Society. He was the recipient of 2014 & 2019 Meritorious Services Award of IEEE SMC Society, 2020 IEEE RAS Most Active Technical Committee Award (IEEE RAS Society) and 2024 IEEE Most Active SMC Technical Committee Award (IEEE SMC Society). He is a fellow of The Engineering Academy of Japan.