Dr. Li-Chen Fu received the B.S. degree from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 1981, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987. Since 1987, he joined National Taiwan University, and has been awarded Irving T. Ho Chair Professor and NTU Chair Professor since 2007 and 2020, respectively. He has also served as the university Secretary General from 2005 to 2008.
Currently, he serves as Director of NTU Center for AI and Advanced Robotics. His areas of research interest include Social Robotics, Smart Home/Healthcare, VR/AR, Visual Detection/Tracking, and Control Theory & Applications. Dr. Fu has been extremely active and highly regarded in his technical field. He has served as the Program Chairs of 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation and 2004 IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA). Domestically, he was asked to serve as Director of Control Program under Engineering Department, Ministry of Science & Technology (MOST), Taiwan (2010~2012).
In terms of the editorial work, he has served as Associate Editor of a control journal, Automatica, from IFAC (1996 to 1999), and is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of Asian Journal of Control (1999~now). Due to his outstanding academic reputation, he was elected as President of Asian Control Association (ACA) (2012–2013), member of Board-of-Governor of IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) (2014 to 2016), and was invited to serve as Vice President for Membership of IEEE CSS (2017~2018). Honors Dr. Fu has received numerous recognitions for his outstanding performance in research and education during his technical career for about 35 years.
Domestically, he has received numerous awards up to now, and to name a few just from the government: Distinguished Research Awards from MOST (1995,1998, 2000), Industry-Academia Collaboration Award (2004), Academic Award (2015), and National Chair Professorship (2019) all from Ministry of Education (MOE), etc. For international recognition, he was elected as IEEE Fellow (2004), IFAC Fellow (2016), IEEE CSS Distinguished Lecturer (2013~2015), and was awarded Wook Hyun Kwon Education Prize (2015) from ACA.