Invited Speakers

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Prof. Hisato KOBAYASHI, Emeritus Professor in Hosei University, Japan

Hisato Kobayashi got B.S., M.S., and D.E. degrees from Waseda University in 1974,1976 and 1979, respectively. He joined Hosei University in 1984. He is now a Professor Emeritus Hosei University. From 2001 to 2002, he was the founding president of Hosei University Research Institute, California. He was the Founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Design from 2007 to 2008. He was a board member of the Robotics Society Japan (RSJ)　from 1994 to 1996.
He was a board member of The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) from 2002 to 2004 and the vice president from 2018 to 2020. He was editor-in-chief of Advanced Robotics, Journal of RSJ, from 1997 to 2002.
From 2003 to 2005, he was the chairman of the automatic control committee, Science Council Japan, and a member of Science Council Japan from 2006 to 2014. From 2010 to 2013, he was a Program Officer at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Since 2008, he has been the chairman of the Standing Steering Committee IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication.
He is an IEEE Life Fellow

Prof. F. John Dian, British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) in Vancouver, Canada

Prof. F. John Dian is a faculty at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) in Vancouver, Canada. He received his Ph.D. degree from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2004. Dr. Dian has more than 20 years of experience in design and implementation of telecommunication circuits and systems. He holds a certificate in business analytics from Harvard Business school, USA and co-chairs the center of excellence in analytics at BCIT. He has been recognized with several excellence in teaching and research awards. Dr. Dian is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and an active member of Association of Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (APEGBC). He is the author of the following books: “IoT use cases and technologies”, “Cellular IoT for practitioners”, and “physical system modeling using MATLAB”.