Adjunct Professor, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Professor, University of Essex, UK

Mr. Huosheng Hu is a Professor in the School of Computer Science & Electronic Engineering at University of Essex, U.K., leading Human Centred Robotics Research. He joined the University of Essex, Department of Computer Science as a Senior Lecturer in 1998 and promoted to Reader in 2001 and then Professor in 2002. During his previous work in Oxford, he designed and built a number of autonomous mobile robots, smart sensors and actuators, intelligent controllers. Prof. Hu is also Guest Professor at Shanghai University (2004-present), Xiamen University (2008-present), Chongqing University of Post & Telecommunications (2004 - present), Dalian University of Technology (2010 - 2013), Southwest University (2010 - 2013), Kunming University of Science and Technology (2004 - 2010), Fujian University of Technology (2008 - 2010), and Northeast Normal University in China (2005 - 2010).

Prof. Hu has published over 450 papers in refereed journals, books, and conference proceedings in the areas of Autonomous mobile robots, Mechatronics, Embedded systems, Biologically inspired robotics, Human-machine interaction, Bio-signal processing, pervasive computing, distributed computer architectures, smart sensors, data fusion, learning algorithms (GA, NN, FL) in robotics, evolutionary robotics, sensor networks, as well as networked devices, systems and robots.

He is a Fellow of IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology), a Fellow of InstMC (The Institute of Measurement & Control), and a Chartered Engineer. He is also a founding member of IEEE Society of Robotics and Automation Technical Committee on: Networked Robots. He is currently Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Automation and Computing, Editor-in-Chief for Robotics Journal, Editor-in-Chief for Digital Communications and Networks, and Executive Editor for International Journal of Mechatronics & Automation.