{"id":25,"date":"2013-02-26T20:39:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T20:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/template\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2013-06-28T21:14:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T21:14:55","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/cheng\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Education\/Positions:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1989<\/li>\n<li>Director,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/case.ucdavis.edu\/\">UC Davis Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education (C-STEM)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Director,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iel.ucdavis.edu\/\">Integration Engineering Laboratory<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Professor,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mae.ucdavis.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graduate Group in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Professor,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.ucdavis.edu\/graduate\/ggcs\/grad_grp.html\" target=\"_blank\">Graduate Group in Computer Science<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Professor,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ece.ucdavis.edu\/people\/associated.html\" target=\"_blank\">Graduate Group in Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Professor,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.ucdavis.edu\/grad\/ggam\/faculty\" target=\"_blank\">Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Professor,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/education.ucdavis.edu\/graduate-group-faculty\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graduate Group in Education<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Honors and Awards<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Best Student Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE\/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications.<\/li>\n<li>Fellow of the ASME, 2006<\/li>\n<li>The Best Paper Award at the 2006 IEEE\/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications.<\/li>\n<li>The Waldron Award, for significant contributions to the science and technology of mechanisms and robotics, the 4th National Applied Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, 1995.<\/li>\n<li>The Research Initiation Award, the National Science Foundation, 1993.<\/li>\n<li>The Procter and Gamble Best Paper Award, the 3rd National Applied Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, 1993.<\/li>\n<li>The Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, University of California, Davis, 1993.<\/li>\n<li>The Outstanding Contribution Award, United Parcel Service, Inc., 1990.<\/li>\n<li>The University Fellowships, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1986-1987, 1987-1988, 1988-1989.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Services:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Chair, the Advisory Committee, ASME Technical Committee on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA), 2009-2010.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Founding Chair, ASME Technical Committee on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA), 2008-2009.<\/li>\n<li>General Chair, the 2009 5th ASME\/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA09), August 30 &#8211; September 2, 2009, San Diego, California.<\/li>\n<li>Chair, A Workshop on Using the Ch Computing Environment for Teaching, Research, and Industrial Applications, October 12, 2008, Beijing, China.<\/li>\n<li>Conference Chair, the 2008 4th IEEE\/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA08), October 12-15, 2008, Beijing, China.<\/li>\n<li>Publicity Chair, The 11th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Beijing, China, October 12-15, 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Interview with Design News on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems, October, 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Member, Instructional Technology Advisory Committee, Yolo County Office Of Education, 2007-present.<\/li>\n<li>Member, Advisory Committee for Davis High School Networking\/Information Technology Classes, 2007-present.<\/li>\n<li>Chair, Technical Committee on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems in ITS of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, 2006-2010.<\/li>\n<li>Chair, Technical Area of Computers in Electronmechanical Systems, ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Division, 2003 &#8211; 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Guest Editor for a special October 2007 issue of IEEE\/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics focused on Intelligent Mechatronic and Embedded Systems.<\/li>\n<li>Keynote Speaker at the 2007 ASME\/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA07), Las Vegas, Nevada, September 4-7, 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Editorial Board, The Open Software Engineering Journal, 2008 &#8211; present.<\/li>\n<li>Editorial Board, The Open Transportation Journal, 2008 &#8211; present.<\/li>\n<li>Member of International Editorial Advisory Board of Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering (CJME) -English Edition, 2002 &#8211; present.<\/li>\n<li>General Co-Chair, the 3rd ASME\/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA07), September 4-7, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/li>\n<li>Instructor of the tutorial, &#8220;Real-Time Linux for Control of Mechatronic Systems&#8221;, at the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 28 &#8211; October 2, 2004; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 10-13, 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Keynote Speaker at the 2006 Annual Computer Education and Research Conference of the Zhejiang Province, August 17-20, Lisui, China.<\/li>\n<li>Program Chair, the 2nd IEEE\/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA06), August 13-16, 2006, Beijing, China.<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Advisory Committee of the 2006 International Mechanisms and Machine Science Conference, Yinchuan, China, August 14-17, 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Applied Mechanisms and Robotics, 2001 &#8211; 2002.<\/li>\n<li>Associate Editor, ASME Trans, Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 2000 &#8211; 2001.<\/li>\n<li>Chair, Technical Area of Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Division, 1997 &#8211; 2003.<\/li>\n<li>Publication Chair of the 1997 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences.<\/li>\n<li>Program Track Chair on Industrial Automation of the 1997 6th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation.<\/li>\n<li>Member of the ASME Mechanisms Subcommittee on Robotics and Manipulators &#8212; Dynamics and Controls, 1995-1996.<\/li>\n<li>Chair, the Subcommittee on Programming Environments and Languages of the ASME Design Automation Committee, 1994 &#8211; 1995.<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Advisory Board on Programming Languages, University Extension, University of California, Davis, 1994 &#8211; 1999.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Design Automation Committee, ASME Design Engineering Division, 1992 &#8211; 2000<\/li>\n<li>Member of Organizing and Program Committees of numerous international conferences.<\/li>\n<li>Session Chairs of numerous international conferences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Honors and Awards:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Best Student Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE\/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications.<\/li>\n<li>Fellow of the ASME, 2006<\/li>\n<li>The Best Paper Award at the 2006 IEEE\/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications.<\/li>\n<li>The Waldron Award, for significant contributions to the science and technology of mechanisms and robotics, the 4th National Applied Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, 1995.<\/li>\n<li>The Research Initiation Award, the National Science Foundation, 1993.<\/li>\n<li>The Procter and Gamble Best Paper Award, the 3rd National Applied Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, 1993.<\/li>\n<li>The Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, University of California, Davis, 1993.<\/li>\n<li>The Outstanding Contribution Award, United Parcel Service, Inc., 1990.<\/li>\n<li>The University Fellowships, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1986-1987, 1987-1988, 1988-1989.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Patents:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Non-Intrusive Laser-Based System for Detecting Objects Moving Across a Planar Surface, US Patent No. 6,404,506, June 11, 2002.<\/li>\n<li>Modular Robot Design Utilizing Rotating Faceplates and Dynamic Motion Control by Robot Pose Manipulation , UC Case No. UC09-598-1, US Patent (pending).<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Software:<\/h3>\n<p>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.<br \/>\nThe designer and original implementer of Ch &#8212; an embeddable C\/C++ interpreter.<br \/>\nThe architect of Mobile-C &#8212; a multi-agent platform for mobile C\/C++ agents.<\/p>\n<h3>Professional Memberships:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers<\/li>\n<li>Senior Member of IEEE<\/li>\n<li>Senior Member of IEEE Computer Society<\/li>\n<li>Senior Member of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society<\/li>\n<li>Senior Member of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Publication of Books:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Harry H. Cheng, C for Engineers and Scientists: An Interpretive Approach, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2009,\u00a0ISBN: 0073376051, ISBN-13: 978-0073376059.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education\/Positions: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1989 Director,\u00a0UC Davis Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education (C-STEM) Director,\u00a0Integration Engineering Laboratory Professor,\u00a0Graduate Group in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Professor,\u00a0Graduate Group in Computer Science Professor,\u00a0Graduate Group in Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor,\u00a0Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics Professor,\u00a0Graduate Group in Education Honors \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/cheng\/biography\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-twocolumns-left.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/cheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/cheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/cheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/cheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/cheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/cheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/cheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/cheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}