Speaker

Assoc. Prof. Ir. Dr. Ahmad `Athif Mohd Faudzi

Assoc. Prof. Ir. Dr. Ahmad `Athif Mohd Faudzi is a member of Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIRO), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia. He received the B. Eng. in Computer Engineering, the M. Eng. in Mechatronics and Automatic Control from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia and the Dr. Eng. in System Integration from Okayama University, Japan in 2004, 2006, and 2010 respectively. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at Tokyo Institute of Technology from 2015 to 2017. He is mainly engaged in the research fields of pneumatic actuators, soft mechanism actuators, hydraulic actuators, automation and control in industrial robots, biomedical applications and bio-robotics. He had won many awards nationally and internationally such as SIIF in Seoul and ITEX in the year 2013 and PECIPTA in the year 2015. He is a Professional Engineer with Practicing Certificate (PEPC) under the Board of Engineers Malaysia, Charted Engineer (CEng) under The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK and members of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). Dr. ‘Athif has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals on the subject of actuators and its application.