Biography

Education/Positions:

Honors and Awards

  • The Best Student Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications.
  • Fellow of the ASME, 2006
  • The Best Paper Award at the 2006 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications.
  • The Waldron Award, for significant contributions to the science and technology of mechanisms and robotics, the 4th National Applied Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, 1995.
  • The Research Initiation Award, the National Science Foundation, 1993.
  • The Procter and Gamble Best Paper Award, the 3rd National Applied Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, 1993.
  • The Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, University of California, Davis, 1993.
  • The Outstanding Contribution Award, United Parcel Service, Inc., 1990.
  • The University Fellowships, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1986-1987, 1987-1988, 1988-1989.

Services:

  • Chair, the Steering Committee, the 2011 7th ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA10), August 28-31, 2011, Washington, DC, USA.
  • Chair, the Advisory Committee, ASME Technical Committee on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA), 2009-2010.
  • Chair, the Steering Committee, the 2010 6th IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA09), July 15-17, 2010, Qingdao, China.
  • Founding Chair, ASME Technical Committee on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA), 2008-2009.
  • General Chair, the 2009 5th ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA09), August 30 – September 2, 2009, San Diego, California.
  • Chair, A Workshop on Using the Ch Computing Environment for Teaching, Research, and Industrial Applications, October 12, 2008, Beijing, China.
  • Conference Chair, the 2008 4th IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA08), October 12-15, 2008, Beijing, China.
  • Publicity Chair, The 11th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Beijing, China, October 12-15, 2008.
  • Interview with Design News on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems, October, 2007.
  • Member, Instructional Technology Advisory Committee, Yolo County Office Of Education, 2007-present.
  • Member, Advisory Committee for Davis High School Networking/Information Technology Classes, 2007-present.
  • Chair, Technical Committee on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems in ITS of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, 2006-2010.
  • Chair, Technical Area of Computers in Electronmechanical Systems, ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Division, 2003 – 2007.
  • Guest Editor for a special October 2007 issue of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics focused on Intelligent Mechatronic and Embedded Systems.
  • Keynote Speaker at the 2007 ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA07), Las Vegas, Nevada, September 4-7, 2007.
  • Editorial Board, The Open Software Engineering Journal, 2008 – present.
  • Editorial Board, The Open Transportation Journal, 2008 – present.
  • Member of International Editorial Advisory Board of Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering (CJME) -English Edition, 2002 – present.
  • General Co-Chair, the 3rd ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA07), September 4-7, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • Instructor of the tutorial, “Real-Time Linux for Control of Mechatronic Systems”, at the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 28 – October 2, 2004; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 10-13, 2006.
  • Keynote Speaker at the 2006 Annual Computer Education and Research Conference of the Zhejiang Province, August 17-20, Lisui, China.
  • Program Chair, the 2nd IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA06), August 13-16, 2006, Beijing, China.
  • Member of the Advisory Committee of the 2006 International Mechanisms and Machine Science Conference, Yinchuan, China, August 14-17, 2006.
  • Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Applied Mechanisms and Robotics, 2001 – 2002.
  • Associate Editor, ASME Trans, Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 2000 – 2001.
  • Chair, Technical Area of Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Division, 1997 – 2003.
  • Publication Chair of the 1997 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences.
  • Program Track Chair on Industrial Automation of the 1997 6th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation.
  • Member of the ASME Mechanisms Subcommittee on Robotics and Manipulators — Dynamics and Controls, 1995-1996.
  • Chair, the Subcommittee on Programming Environments and Languages of the ASME Design Automation Committee, 1994 – 1995.
  • Member of the Advisory Board on Programming Languages, University Extension, University of California, Davis, 1994 – 1999.
  • Participated in the revision of C through ANSI X3J11 and ISO 22/WG14 C Standard Committees with contributions in numerical features of VLA, complex numbers, and IEEE 754 floating-point arithmetic in C99, 1993-1999.
  • Member of the Design Automation Committee, ASME Design Engineering Division, 1992 – 2000
  • Member of Organizing and Program Committees of numerous international conferences.
  • Session Chairs of numerous international conferences.

Honors and Awards:

  • The Best Student Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications.
  • Fellow of the ASME, 2006
  • The Best Paper Award at the 2006 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications.
  • The Waldron Award, for significant contributions to the science and technology of mechanisms and robotics, the 4th National Applied Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, 1995.
  • The Research Initiation Award, the National Science Foundation, 1993.
  • The Procter and Gamble Best Paper Award, the 3rd National Applied Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, 1993.
  • The Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, University of California, Davis, 1993.
  • The Outstanding Contribution Award, United Parcel Service, Inc., 1990.
  • The University Fellowships, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1986-1987, 1987-1988, 1988-1989.

Patents:

  • Non-Intrusive Laser-Based System for Detecting Objects Moving Across a Planar Surface, US Patent No. 6,404,506, June 11, 2002.
  • Modular Robot Design Utilizing Rotating Faceplates and Dynamic Motion Control by Robot Pose Manipulation , UC Case No. UC09-598-1, US Patent (pending).
  • Barobo, Inc., founded by Dr. Cheng and his former graduate student, is a commercial spinnoff of the robotics technology developed in the Integration Engineering Laboratory at UC Davis.

Software:

I started my career in computing using computers with punch cards. Now, my computing interests are high-level script computing and mobile agent-based computing. My white paper on Ten Reasons to Teach and Learn Computer Programming in C.
The designer and original implementer of Ch — an embeddable C/C++ interpreter.
The architect of Mobile-C — a multi-agent platform for mobile C/C++ agents.

Professional Memberships:

  • Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • Senior Member of IEEE
  • Senior Member of IEEE Computer Society
  • Senior Member of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
  • Senior Member of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society

Publication of Books:

  • Harry H. Cheng, C for Engineers and Scientists: An Interpretive Approach, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2009, ISBN: 0073376051, ISBN-13: 978-0073376059.

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