Simon X. Yang

Simon X. Yang received the B.S. degree in engineering physics from Beijing University, China, in 1987, the first of two M.S. degrees in biophysics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 1990, the second M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Houston, Tex, USA, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, in 1999. Professor Yang joined the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph, Canada, in 1999. Currently, he is a Professor and the Head of the Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems (ARIS) Laboratory at the University of Guelph in Canada. His research interests include intelligent systems, robotics, sensors and multisensor fusion, wireless sensor networks, control systems, soft computing, and computational neuroscience. Yang serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions of Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B, International Journal of Robotics and Automation, and Journal of Robotics, and he serves as an associate editor or an editorial member of several other journals. He has involved in the organization of many conferences. He is the General Chair of the 2006 International Conference on Sensing, Computing, and Automation.

Biography Updated on 1 February 2010

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