ICCRE 2026
2026 11th International Conference on Control and Robotics Engineering
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.