ICCRE 2026 - Kyoto, Japan

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

ICCRE 2026 Invited Speakers

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.

Assoc. Prof. Yidi Li

Taiyuan University of Technology, China

Biography: Yidi Li is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and Technology, and Director of the Multimodal Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction Laboratory, Taiyuan University of Technology, China. She received her PhD in Computer Technology from Peking University in China, and is currently engaged in postdoctoral research at Osaka University in Japan. Her research work has achieved significant results in the field of the integration of computer vision and computer audition. She was awarded the 2023 ACM China Rising Star (Taiyuan Chapter) by the Association for Computing Machinery, and received IEEE SWC Best Paper Award and the IEEE Distinguished Service Award. She serves as the publicity chair of the 2025 CW, as well as the session chair of the 2024 CWSN, 2025 ICIC and 2025 ACAIT. Her research interests focus on multimodal embodied perception and human-robot interaction technology, aiming to enhance robots' robust environmental perception and autonomous decision-making capabilities.

Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Gia Minh Thao

Shimane University, Japan

Biography: Nguyen Gia Minh Thao obtained the B. Eng. (honors) degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam, in 2009, and the Dr. Eng. degree in electrical engineering and intelligent control from Waseda University, Japan, in 2015. From 2015 to 2020, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Waseda University and Toyota Technological Institute, Japan. From 2020 to 2023, he was an Assistant Professor in Nagoya University and Toyota Technological Institute, Japan. Since 2023, Dr. Thao has been an Associate Professor in Shimane University, Japan, where he is the head of the Electric Motors and Energy Systems Laboratory. He has been a Senior Member of the IEEE, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, since 2022. He has also been a Guest Editor for special issues of refereed journals such as Electronics and IET The Journal of Engineering. Moreover, he has been an Editorial Member of Journal of Computer Science and Cybernetics, since 2021. His research interests include advanced control methods, electric motors and drives, renewable energy systems, power electronics, intelligent battery management systems, electromagnetic analysis and evaluation, computational intelligence, and electric vehicles.