Harry H. Cheng

• Director, Integration Engineering Laboratory
• Professor, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Graduate Group
• Professor, Computer Science Graduate Group
• Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Group
• Professor, Computational Science and Engineering Graduate Group
• Professor, Applied Mathematics Graduate Group

Education

Ph.D.: Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1989

Research Interest

Honors and Awards

• Fellow of the ASME, 2006
• The Best Paper Award at the 2006 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications.
• The Waldron Award, for significant contributions to the science and technology of mechanisms and robotics, the 4th National Applied Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, 1995.
• The Research Initiation Award, the National Science Foundation, 1993.
• The Procter and Gamble Best Paper Award, the 3rd National Applied Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, 1993.
• The Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, University of California, Davis, 1993.
• The Outstanding Contribution Award, United Parcel Service, Inc., 1990.
• The University Fellowships, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1986-1987, 1987-1988, 1988-1989.

Services

• Chair, the Advisory Committee, ASME Technical Committee on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA), 2009-2010.
• Chair, the Steering Committee, the 2010 6th ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA09), July 15-17, 2010, Qingdao, China.
• Founding Chair, ASME Technical Committee on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA), 2008-2009.
• General Chair, the 2009 5th ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA09), August 30 - September 2, 2009, San Diego, California.
• Chair, A Workshop on Using the Ch Computing Environment for Teaching, Research, and Industrial Applications, October 12, 2008, Beijing, China.
• Conference Chair, the 2008 4th IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA08), October 12-15, 2008, Beijing, China.
• Publicity Chair, The 11th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Beijing, China, October 12-15, 2008.
• Interview with Design News on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems, October, 2007.
• Chair, Technical Committee on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems in ITS of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, 2006-present.
• Chair, Technical Area of Computers in Electronmechanical Systems, ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Division, 2003 - 2007.
• Guest Editor for a special October 2007 issue of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics focused on Intelligent Mechatronic and Embedded Systems.
• Keynote Speaker at the 2007 ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA07), Las Vegas, Nevada, September 4-7, 2007.
• Editorial Board, The Open Software Engineering Journal, 2008 - present.
• Editorial Board, The Open Transportation Journal, 2008 - present.
• Member of International Editorial Advisory Board of Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering (CJME) -English Edition, 2002 - present.
• General Co-Chair, the 3rd ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA07), September 4-7, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada.
• Instructor of the tutorial, "Real-Time Linux for Control of Mechatronic Systems", at the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 28 - October 2, 2004; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 10-13, 2006.
• Keynote Speaker at the 2006 Annual Computer Education and Research Conference of the Zhejiang Province, August 17-20, Lisui, China.
• Program Chair, the 2nd IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA06), August 13-16, 2006, Beijing, China.
• Member of the Advisory Committee of the 2006 International Mechanisms and Machine Science Conference, Yinchuan, China, August 14-17, 2006.
• Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Applied Mechanisms and Robotics, 2001 - 2002.
• Associate Editor, ASME Trans, Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 2000 - 2001.
• Chair, Technical Area of Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Division, 1997 - 2003.
• Publication Chair of the 1997 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences.
• Program Track Chair on Industrial Automation of the 1997 6th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation.
• Member of the ASME Mechanisms Subcommittee on Robotics and Manipulators --- Dynamics and Controls, 1995-1996.
• Chair, the Subcommittee on Programming Environments and Languages of the ASME Design Automation Committee, 1994 - 1995.
• Member of the Advisory Board on Programming Languages, University Extension, University of California, Davis, 1994 - 1999.
• Participated in the revision of C through ANSI X3J11 and ISO 22/WG14 C Standard Committees with contributions in numerical features of VLA, complex numbers, and IEEE 754 floating-point arithmetic in C99, 1993-1999.
• Member of the Design Automation Committee, ASME Design Engineering Division, 1992 - 2000
• Member of Organizing and Program Committees of numerous international conferences.
• Session Chairs of numerous international conferences.

Professional Membership

• Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Senior Member of IEEE
• Senior Member of IEEE Computer Society
• Senior Member of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

Publication of Books

Publications of Articles

Patent

Software

• The designer and original implementer of Ch --- an embeddable C/C++ interpreter.
• The architect of Mobile-C --- a multi-agent platform for mobile C/C++ agents.