Title: Associate Professor

Address: Room G03B, 18 Alliance Lane, Clayton VIC 3800,

Australia

Tel: +61 3 990 53403

Email: Chao.Chen@monash.edu

Education Background:

2006 Ph.D., McGill University, Montreal, Canada

2002 M.Eng., McGill University, Montreal, Canada

1996 B.Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Working Experiences:

2022-present Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

2011-2022 Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

2019-present Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2015-2017 Senior Research Fellow, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Melbourne

2013    Visiting Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

2011    Visiting Professor, Institute de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes and Ecole Central de Nantes, France

2007-10  Lecturer, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

2006-07  Postdoctoral Fellow, Robotics & Automation Laboratory, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada

2006    Postdoctoral Fellow, Robotic Mechanical Systems Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University, Canada

1997-2000 Mechanical Engineer, Baosteel, Shanghai, China

Research Interests:

Agriculture Robotics, Medical Robotics, Infrastructural Robotics

Professional Activities:

2022 Guest Editor of Topics: Grand Challenges of Advanced Technologies in

Sustainable Agriculture 4.0: Future Farming, Harvesting and Preservation

2022 Guest Editor of Special Issue in Agronomy: Research Status, Progress, and Applications of Agricultural Robot and Agriculture 4.0 Technologies in Field Operation - Volume II

2022 Guest Editor of Special Issue in Agronomy: Research Status, Progress, and Applications of Agricultural Robot and Agriculture 4.0 Technologies in Field Operation

2022-present Editorial Board Member of Agronomy Basel: Precision and Digital Agriculture

2022 Advisory Committee Member of Virtual International Conference on Sustainability and Emerging Trends in Civil and Mechanical Engineering

2021 Session Chair of International Conference on Robotics and Automation

2021 Member, Program Committee of 5th IEEE/IFToMM International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots  

2018-present Editorial Board Member of Transportation Safety and Environment

2017 Organiser of Summer Summit of Screw Theory

2015 Member, Program Committee of the 3rd ASME/IFToMM International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots

2014 Program Chair of the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation

2013 Member, Program Committee of the 1st International and 16th National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms

2013 Member, Program Committee of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM)

2013 Member, Program Committee of the 15th Australian International Aerospace Congress

2012 Member, Program Committee of the ASME/IFToMM International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robotics

2011 Member, International Program Committee of the International Conference on Mechatronics Technology

2011 Conference Organizer of AIAA Region-VII Australia Regional Student Conference

2011-2020 Associate Editor of International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

2011-present International Editorial Board of International Journal of Intelligent Mechatronics and Robotics

2010 Member, International Program Committee of the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications

2009-present Editorial Board Member of Begell House

2007-11 Member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

2003-present Member of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

2011 Member of The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

2008-present Member International Editorial Board of Transactions of Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering