Let's talk robotics with Snr Professor Gursel Alici

Joining me today is Senior Professor Gursel Alici. Gursel (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in robotics from the Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K., in 1994.

He is currently a Senior Professor with the University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, where he holds the position of Executive Dean for the Faculty of Engineering Information Sciences and prior to this, he was the Head of the School of Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronic and Biomedical Engineering during 2011-2021. His research interests are soft robotics, system dynamics and control, robotic drug delivery systems, novel actuation concepts for biomechatronic applications, robotic mechanisms and manipulation systems, soft and smart actuators and sensors, and medical robotics. He has generated more than 400-refereed publications and delivered numerous invited seminars and keynote talks on his areas of research.

Since January 1, 2020, Dr. Alici has been a Senior Editor for the IEEE/ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS. He was a Technical Editor of the IEEE/ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS during 2008–2012. He was a Technical Editor for the IEEE ACCESS, the first IEEE open access journal with interdisciplinary scope. From 2007 to 2017, he was a Member of the Mechatronics National Panel formed by the Institution of Engineers, Australia. He has served on the international program committee of numerous IEEE/ASME International Conferences on Robotics and Mechatronics. He was the General Chair of the 2013 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics held in Wollongong, Australia. He is the Leader of soft robotics for Prosthetic Devices theme of the ARC Center of Excellence for Electromaterials Science. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Contributions to Teaching and Learning Award in 2010, the Vice-Chancellor’s Interdisciplinary Research Excellence Award in 2013, and Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Supervision in 2018 from the University of Wollongong. He was a Visiting Professor with Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (2007, 2010), City University of Hong Kong (2014), University of Science and Technology of China (2015), and University of British Columbia, Canada (2019).