Recently, Academician Darwin Caldwell, Academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the IEEE, Founding Dean of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Head of the Department of Advanced Robotics of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Honorary Professor of the University of Manchester, Honorary Professor of King's College London, Honorary Professor of the University of Sheffield, and Honorary Professor of Bangor University, joined the Asia-Pacific Society for Artificial Intelligence (hereinafter referred to as AAIA).
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Career
Darwin G. Caldwell received his B.Sc and PhD in Robotics from the University of Hull in 1986 and 1990, respectively, and a M.Sc degree in Management from the University of Salford in 1994. He is currently the founding director of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and the head of the Department of Advanced Robotics. Fellow Caldwell was an honorary professor at the University of Manchester, the University of Sheffield, King's College, Bangor University in the UK and Tianjin University in China.
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Major contribution
Darwin G. Caldwell's research interests include; Humanoid and quadruped robots (iCub, cCub, COMAN, WalkMan, HyQ, HyQ2Max, HalfMan, COMAN+), innovative actuators, tactile and strength augmentation exoskeletons, medical, rehabilitation and assistive robotics, dexterous manipulators.
He is the author or co-author of more than 500 academic papers, 20+ patents, and has received awards and nominations in many international journals and conferences. Fellow Caldwell has served as Chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Subcommittee (UKRI), Co-Chair of the IEE PN on Robotics and Mechatronics, Secretary of Mechatronics at IEEE/ASME Trans., and on the Editorial/Editorial Board of several leading journals. In 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
The Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association was incorporated in Hong Kong in 2021. The Asia-Pacific Society for Artificial Intelligence (AAIA) is an academic, non-profit, non-governmental organization voluntarily formed by 1263 academicians around the world. Fellowships of the Asia-Pacific Society for Artificial Intelligence (AAIA) come from Stanford University, Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Cornell University, Columbia University, University of Oxford, Imperial College London, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and other universities, as well as from Google, Microsoft, IBM, Alibaba, Huawei, The world's top scientists in AI-related fields for high-tech companies such as JD.com.
The Asia-Pacific Society for Artificial Intelligence (AAIA) includes academicians of various countries (such as academicians of the American Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Engineering, the European Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Singapore Academy of Engineering, etc.), IEEE Fellows, ACM Fellows, AAAI Fellows, and AAAI Fellows. IAPR Fellow, etc.
After statistical analysis of the data on the official website of the global mainstream artificial intelligence society, it is found that compared with the international artificial intelligence organizations at the same level, the number and quality of academicians of the Asia-Pacific Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAIA) are far ahead.
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