Jwu-Sheng Hu received the B.S. degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 1984, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, in 1988 and 1990, respectively.
From 1991-1993, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI where he received the Research Initiation Award from National Science Foundation. Since 1993, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan and became a full professor in 1998. He served as the vice-chairman of the Department since 2006. From 2008; he works in-part at the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) of Taiwan where he serves as the advisor for the Intelligent Robotics program and principle investigator of several join research projects on robotics across academia, industry and research institutions. He also serves as a research faculty at the National Chip Implementation Center (CIC) of Taiwan for embedded system design applications from 2006 to 2009. He was the chairman of the Taipei Chapter, IEEE RA Society form 2011-2013. From 2013, he served as the Chief Technology Officer of the Mechanical and Mechatronic Systems Lab. (MMSL), ITRI as well as the Director of the Intelligent Robotics Division. In 2015, he was promoted to be the General Director of MMSL and VP of ITRI.
Dr. Hu's research interests include robotics, mechatronics, and embedded systems where he published over 250 technical articles and 70 patents. He established both DSP and Embedded System programming lab in NCTU in 1990's and his students won many technology competition awards. Since he joined ITRI, he led the robotics group to establish the nation's largest Robotics research lab with many collaboration and technology transfer to the local industry. Currently, he is leading the MMSL to create technologies in the broad area of manufacturing and vehicles in which he has created 7 startup companies in 5 years. Dr. Hu has been an active member of IEEE and ASME. He is currently the chairman of Taiwan Society of Precision Engineering (TSPE) and serves as the board member of Chinese Automatic Control Society (CACS), Chinese Institute of Automation Engineers (CIAE), Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers (CSME), Taipei Chapter, Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and Robotics Society of Taiwan (RST).

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Prof. Zhou received his MS and PhD degrees from the Tohoku University in Japan in 1988 and 1991. Currently, he is the head of Department of Mechanical System in School of Engineering, National Ibaraki University, oversee research activities of traditional and non-traditional manufacturing processes. He is sitting in the Board of Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE), Japan Society of Abrasive Technology (JSAT) and International Committee for Abrasive Technology (ICAT). He has also run many domestic and international conferences including ISAAT, ICPE, LEM21 as organizing committee member or chairman. He has been appointed as the visiting research fellow by Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, the visiting professor by Zhejiang University of Technology and the "Haitian" scholar by Dalian University of Technology in China.

Presentation title; Challenge to defect-free machining
Subtitle; One step beyond precision