Kin Huat Low

Biography

Kin Huat Low is currently a professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He obtained his BSc degree from the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, his MSc and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada. After spending two years as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo, he joined School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the Nanyang Technological University. His teaching and research interests include robotics, vibrations, impact analysis, unmanned aerial vehicles, and machine and mechanism design. He is an author or co-author of about 250 journal and conference papers in the areas of robotics, biomimetics, robotics, rehabilitation, impacts, power transmission systems, structural dynamics, and vibrations. His works on biomimetics and exoskeleton have won the best paper in several IEEE international conferences. Professor Low is an Associate Editor of several journals, including Mechanism and Machine Theory, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics and the Journal of Bionic Engineering. He is also the Guest Editor of several special issues on bio-inspired systems and robotics rehabilitation. He is currently the chairman of the IEEE RAS (Robotics Automation Society) Technical Committee on bio-robotics. He has been involved in the program committee of various international conferences. He has organized several workshops and symposiums in the research fields of bio-inspired robotics.  Kin Huat is actively engaged in international collaborations. He has collaborated with professors and researchers at various universities through joint research projects and visits. These universities include Harvard University and CMU (USA), Imperial College (UK), University of Waterloo and McGill University (Canada), Osaka University (Japan), USTC and BUAA (China), National Taiwan University and National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan)

Research Interest

In the areas of robotics, biomimetics, robotics, rehabilitation, impacts, power transmission systems, structural dynamics, and vibrations