Biography: Ruqiang Yan (Fellow, IEEE) received the M.S. degree in precision instrument and machinery from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA, in 2007. He was a Guest Researcher with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, from 2006 to 2008, and a Professor with the School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, from 2009 to 2018. He joined the School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2018. His research interests include data analytics, artificial intelligence, and energy-efficient sensing and sensor networks for the condition monitoring and health diagnosis of large-scale, complex, and dynamical systems. Dr. Yan is a fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers. His honors and awards include the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award in 2019, the Distinguished Service Award in 2022, and multiple best paper awards. He has been serving as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Instrument and Measurement since January 2022. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal and an Editorial Board Member of Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering.
Biography: Subhas holds a B.E.E. (gold medalist), M.E.E., Ph.D. (India) and Doctor of Engineering (Japan). He has over 35+ years of teaching, industrial and research experience. Currently he is working as a Professor of Mechanical/Electronics Engineering, Macquarie University, Australia and is the Discipline Leader of the Mechatronics Engineering Degree Programme. His fields of interest include Smart Sensors and sensing technology, instrumentation techniques, wireless sensors and network (WSN), Internet of Things (IoT), Robotics, Mechatronics and Drones etc. He has supervised over 60 postgraduate students and over 200 Honours students. He has examined over 80 postgraduate theses.
He has been co-inventor of 14 patents and published over 500 papers in different international journals and conference proceedings, written ten books and sixty two book chapters and edited twenty conference proceedings. He has also edited fifty books and forty five journal special issues. He has organized over 25 international conferences as either General Chairs/co-chairs or Technical Programme Chair. He has delivered 470 presentations including keynote, invited, tutorial and special lectures. As per Scholargoogle, his total citation is 30965 and h-index is 89.
He is a Fellow of IEEE (USA), a Fellow of IET (UK), a Fellow of IETE (India). He was a Topical Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal from 2013 to 2025 and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements from 2007 to 2025. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Reviews in Biomedical Engineering (RBME). He is the EiC of the International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Sensors Council from 2017 to 2022. He chairs the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society NSW chapter.
Speech Title: Recent Advancement of Electronics, Instrumentation and Measurement techniques for Smart IoT, Robots and Drones
Abstract: The convergence of advances in sensing technologies, embedded electronics, wireless communication, nanomaterials, miniaturisation, machine vision, and high-performance computing has accelerated the development of smart IoT devices, intelligent mechatronic systems, and autonomous machines. This seminar will highlight recent research and development activities conducted at Macquarie University in the fields of sensors and sensing systems, electronics, instrumentation, and measurement technologies for IoT and mechatronic applications. Key research areas include robotics, autonomous drones, environmental monitoring, biological sensing, sustainable waste management, swarm robotics, and technologies that enable the continuous and reliable operation of unmanned aerial systems. The seminar will demonstrate how these emerging technologies are being applied to address critical challenges in sustainability, automation and intelligent decision-making across diverse application domains.
