Dr. Cheng Siong Chin is an Associate Professor at Newcastle University at Singapore where he has established research projects with vast industry partners from Seagate, ST-Electronics, Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD), SembCorp Marine, POSH, Visenti (Xylem), Temasek Polytechnic and Singapore Maritime Institute (SMI). He is also a Visiting Professor at Chongqing University. He has also supervised projects on the intelligent systems design and simulation of complex systems in uncertain environment. He has published over 100 journal papers, books, book chapters and conference papers. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of IMarEST, senior member of IEEE and the IET, and a Chartered Engineer. He received the Best Paper Award for the Virtual Reality of Autonomous Vehicle in The 2018 10th International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control sponsored by IEEE.
Dr. Michael Wai Shing Lau is an Associate Professor and a Degree Programme Director for Mechanical Design and Manufacturing Engineering at Newcastle University at Singapore. He has been involved in tertiary education in Singapore for more than 20 years. He has published more than 100 journal papers, book chapters and conference papers. His research activities include motion control, active vibration control, and design and control of mobile robotics including underwater vehicles.