Keynote Speech 01

Professor Makoto Iwasaki, Dr. Eng., IEEE Fellow

Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

Makoto Iwasaki received the B.S., M.S., and Dr. Eng. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, in 1986, 1988, and 1991, respectively. He is currently a Vice President of Nagoya Institute of Technology, and a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering.

As professional contributions of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, he has participated in various organizing services, such as, a Chair of IES Fellow Evaluation Committee in 2022 and 2023, a Co-Editors-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics from 2016 to 2022, a Vice President for Planning and Development in term of 2018 to 2021, etc. He is IEEE fellow class 2015 for "contributions to fast and precise positioning in motion controller design".

He has received many academic, foundation, and government awards, like the Best Paper and Technical Awards of IEE Japan, the Nagamori Award, the Ichimura Prize, and the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Japanese Minister of Education, respectively. He is also a fellow of IEE Japan, and a member of Science Council of Japan.

His current research interests are the applications of control theories to linear/nonlinear modeling and precision positioning, through various collaborative research activities with industries.

Title of the speech

“Mechanical Vibration Suppression Techniques for Industrial Mechatronic Systems: Principle and Practice”

Keynote Speech 02

Professor  Stephan Heyns， Dr.

Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering，University of Pretoria，South Africa.

He is currently the Director of the Centre for Asset Integrity Management at the University of Pretoria and coordinator of the Mandela Mining Precinct SAMERDI Research Activity in Mechanised Mining Systems.

He is an accredited B-rated researcher with the National Research Foundation in South Africa, as well as a Fellow of the South African Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

His research interests are focused on machine and structural health diagnostics and prognostics based on vibration measurement and analysis, as well as digital twinning, especially in the context of mechanised mining systems. He has authored and co-authored more than 160 peer reviewed journal papers, some 140 conference papers (including various invited lectures and specialist plenary lectures), as well as 19 book chapters. He has served on the scientific advisory committees of many international conferences.

He has supervised more than 125 completed masters degrees and 25 PhDs.

He has been very active as a consultant on various aspects of asset integrity analysis and management, and has been the author or co-author of hundreds of project reports for clients in South Africa and abroad.

He is a registered Professional Engineer at the Engineering Council of South Africa.

Keynote Speech 03

Professor Andrew D. Ball，BEng, PhD, CEng, FIET, FHEA, CMgr, CCMI, FPHMS

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research, Innovation & Knowledge Exchange)

School of Computing and Engineering

Professor of Diagnostic Engineering

 University of Huddersfield | Queensgate | Huddersfield | HD1 3DH | UK

Prof. Andrew D. Ball is one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of machinery diagnostics. He is Professor of Diagnostic Engineering at the University of Huddersfield where he is also Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation. He has established and led the Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering (CEPE) at the University of Manchester since 1995. His specialisms are in the fields of condition monitoring, fault detection and diagnosis, signal processing, sensor systems and vibro-acoustics for different machines. With an H-index of over 50 and more than 14,000 citations, Andrew has authored/coauthored more than 700 publications. He has undertaken various research projects sponsored by companies and public funds. As main and co-supervisor, he has supervised over 130 doctoral degree students to successful completion. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE); Chartered Manager (CMgr) and Companion of the Chartered Management Institute (CCMI), and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Moreover, he has extensive and deep collaborations with Chinese academics and undertaken visiting and Honorary Professors in 6 Chinese Universities including Tianjin University and Tsinghua University. Especially, He and Prof Fulei Chu have jointly established a new journal: the Journal of Dynamics, Monitoring and Diagnostics (JDMD), which is the first such journal focusing in the field of condition monitoring.