Introduction

The JAIST Robotics Laboratory directed by Prof. Nak Young Chong is affiliated with the School of Information Science at JAIST. The lab, aka Intelligent Mechanical Systems Laboratory, is devoted to the research and development of novel intelligent robotic systems through knowledge networking and interactive communication.

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Director

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Professional Service

• Visiting Scholar, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A., 2015-2018
• International Scholar, Kyung Hee University, Korea, 2013-2014
• Associate Graduate Faculty, University of Nevada, U.S.A., 2011-2016
• Visiting Scholar, University of Genoa, Italy, 2010
• Visiting Scholar, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A., 2008-2009
• Adjunct Senior Researcher, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, 2003-2007
• Visiting Scholar, Northwestern University, U.S.A., 2001-2002


• Co-Chair, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society's Technical Committee on Networked Robots,2004-2006
• Co-Chair, Fujitsu Scientific Systems Robotics Working Group, 2004-2006
• Co-Chair, Fujitsu Scientific Systems Robot Information Processing Working Group, 2006-2008


• Topic Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2013-
• Senior Editor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2015-
• Senior Editor, Springer Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics, 2018-
• Editor, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Conference Editorial Board, 2012-2015
• Editor, IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communications Conference Editorial Board, 2012-2013
• Editor, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering Conference Editorial Board, 2010-2012
• Editor, International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots, 2018-
• Steering Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2012-
• Steering Committee Member, International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, 2014-
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2009-2013
• Associate Editor, Springer Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics, 2011-2018


• Program Co-Chair, Japan-China- Korea Joint Workshop on Robotics, Toyama, Japan, 2008
• Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Advanced Mechatronics, Osaka, Japan, 2010
• Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A., 2011
• Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Seoul, Korea, 2012
• Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Gyeongju, Korea, 2013
• Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence, Jeju, Korea, 2013
• Program Chair, International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Daejeon, Korea, 2014
• Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2014
• Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Control, Automation, and Systems, Gyeongju, Korea, 2016
• General Co-Chair, International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence, Jeju, Korea, 2017
• Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics, Osaka, Japan, 2019
• General Chair, International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots, Kyoto, Japan, 2020