Dr. Tan Tien Nguyen was born in Vietnam on June 29, 1968. He received the B.S at Department of Mechanical Engineering,HoChiMinh City University of Technology, Vietnam in 1990. He received MS. Degree and Ph. D degree at the Department of Mechanical Engneering, Pukyoung National University, Pusan, Korea in August, 1998 and August, 2001.

Currently, he is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam. His fields of interest are Robust Control, Nonlinear Control, Welding Automation Process Control and Automation in Industry.

Okyay Kaynak received the B.Sc. (first-class honors) and Ph.D. degrees in electronic and electrical engineering from the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K., in 1969 and 1972, respectively.

From 1972 to 1979, he held various positions within the industry that included 3.5 years in Saudi Arabia, working as a project engineer. In 1979, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. He has served as the Chairman of the Computer Engineering and the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Departments and as the Director of Biomedical Engineering Institute at this university ...

Prof. Kim received his Bachelor/Master degrees of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Pukyong National University, Korea, in 1978/1980 and Doctor of Engineering in Control Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, 1988, respectively. He has served as a professor of the Department of Mechanical Automotive Engineering of Pukyong National University(PKNU), Korea. His current interests are in the field of Mobile Robots, Manipulators and Sensorless Vector Control of Inverter, etc. He has published more than 600 papers appeared in various journals and international conference proceedings ...