ICCRE 2026 - Kyoto, Japan

2026 11th International Conference on Control and Robotics Engineering (ICCRE 2026)

ICCRE 2025 Invited Speakers

Prof. Chiharu Ishii

Hosei University, Japan

Biography: Chiharu Ishii received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Sophia University, Japan in 1997. He worked at Ashikaga Institute of Technology between 1997 and 2002, at Kogakuin University between 2002 and 2009, and at Shibaura Institute of Technology between 2009 and 2010. He has been working at Hosei University since 2010, and currently working as a Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering at Hosei University. Dr. Chiharu Ishii has received several awards such as The Best Paper Award in the area of Tactile and Haptic Interfaces at the 4th International Conference on Human System Interaction (IEEE HSI 2011); Best Paper Award at the 1st International Conference on Computer Science, Electronics and Instrumentation (ICCSE 2012); Best Presentation Award at the International Conference on Intelligent Mechatronics and Automation (ICIMA 2013); Excellent Oral Presentation Award at the 4th International Conference on Soft Computing & Machine Intelligence (ISCMI 2017); 3rd Prize, Excellent Paper Award at the 2021 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech 2021). He is currently a member of IEEE, SICE, JSME, RSJ, IEEJ and JSCAS. His research interests are in medical robotics and assistive technology.

Prof. Naoyuki Kubota

Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

Biography: Naoyuki Kubota is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, the Graduate School of Systems Design, and Director of Community-centric Systems Research Center, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. He is the representative director of Tokyo Biomarker Innovation Research Association, Japan (TOBIRA). He received a doctoral degree from Nagoya University, Japan, in 1997. He was a Visiting Professor at University of Portsmouth, UK and Seoul National University, South Korea, and others. His current interests are in the fields of cyber-physical-social systems, Healthcare as a Service (HaaS), robot partners, and Computational Intelligence. He has published more than 500 refereed journal and conference papers in the above research fields. He was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems from 1999 to 2010, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee, Robotics Task Force Chair from 2007 to 2014, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Japan Chapter Chair from 2018 to 2021, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing Steering Committee Member since 2019, and others.

Prof. Juha Plosila

University of Turku (UTU), Finland

Biography: Juha Plosila is a Professor at the Department of Computing, University of Turku (UTU), Finland, leading there the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Unit (RAS) and a research group called the Autonomous Systems Laboratory (ASL). At the European Institute of Innovation & Technology EIT Digital, he has been heading a European double-degree Master’s Program in Embedded Systems since 2012. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Communication Technology from UTU in 1999 and has more than 370 peer-reviewed conference and journal publications in various subfields of computer engineering. His research group is currently devising new methods to increase the intelligence and autonomy of robotic systems, with a particular focus on developing multi-objective optimization approaches for self-aware robots (and swarms of robots) while taking into account various constraints in both short-term and long-term scenarios.

Assoc. Prof. Weiwei Wan

Osaka University, Japan

Biography: Weiwei Wan is an associate professor working at the School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Japan. He is an IEEE senior member, having affiliations with the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and the IEEE System, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He is also a member of RSJ (the Robotics Society of Japan) and JSME (Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers). Weiwei Wan's major interest is smart manufacturing using single or multiple robotic manipulators: Developing and deploying grasping planning, motion planning, and other low level and high level task planning algorithms for next-generation factories. He is also studying visual perception, force control, and learning approaches to make up for the inherent shortages of planning algorithms.