RITA 2018 / Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering (PDF)

(iMAMS), which was founded by Professor Zahari Taha, who was his supervisor for his doctoral study. His research interests include finite element modelling of the interaction between human and sports equipment, instrumentation of sports equipment, and injury prevention particularly with regard to sport. His work aims to apply engineering principles in sports to not only enhance the performance of an athlete, but also to prevent injuries.



Professor Zahari Taha graduated with a B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering with Honours from the University of Bath, United Kingdom. He obtained his Ph.D. in Dynamics and Control of Robots from the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology in 1987. He is currently a Professor of Manufacturing Engineering at Universiti Malaysia Pahang and he is also the founder and advisor of the Innovative Manufacturing, Mechatronics and Sports Laboratory. Prof. Zahari teaches and conducts research in the areas of industrial automation, robotics, ergonomics, sustainable manufacturing, machine learning and sports engineering.



Professor Han-Lim Choi is an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), and a Visiting Scholar in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, in 2000 and 2002, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2009. He then worked at MIT as a postdoctoral associate until he joined KAIST in 2010. His current research interests include planning and control of multi-agent systems, planning and control under uncertainty, resource management in radars, and Bayesian inference for large-scale systems. He (together with Dr. Jonathan P. How) is the recipient of Automatica Applications Prize in 2011.

Professor Junmo Kim received the B.S. degree from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea in 1998, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge in 2000 and 2005 respectively. From 2005 to 2009, he was with the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Korea, as a Research Staff Member. He joined the faculty of KAIST in 2009, where he is currently an Associate Professor of electrical engineering. His research interests are in image processing, computer vision, statistical signal processing, and information theory.