Bio
Prof. Dr. –Ing. Jian S Dai is chair in mechanisms and robotics. He received his BSc and MSc at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and became a lecturer in 1985. He joined the University of Salford in the UK in late 1980s as a research scholar and received his PhD at the same university. He then continued his employment with the same university as post-doctoral research fellow. Since 1996, he focused on reconfigurable mechanisms and machines and was leading member and coordinator in an international project at Unilever Research. He subsequently spent three months in Makino Robotics Laboratory at Yamanashi University in Japan. He moved back to academic position in 1997 and joined King\\'s College London, University of London in 1999. A recipient of the 25th ASME biennial mechanisms conference best paper award, he has published over 200 papers, completed over 30 research projects and successfully supervised and is supervising over 18 PhDs, 10 post doctoral researchers and 12 visiting scholars. Professor Dai’s research and teaching are in the area of kinematics, mechanisms, robotics, and their application to grasping, rehabilitation and industrial packaging particularly reconfigurable mechanisms. He is IMechE follow and sitting in several committees in the ASME, IEEE and IFToMM including ASME mechanisms and robotics committee and being associate editor of ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics and Robotica.
