Professor Er Meng Joo received his B. Eng and M. Eng degrees in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 1985 and 1988 respectively and a Ph.D degree in Systems Engineering from the Australian National University in 1992. From 1987 to 1989, he worked as a Research and Development Engineer in Chartered Electronics Industries Pte Ltd and a Software Engineer in Telerate Research and Development Pte Ltd respectively. He served as the Founding Director of the Intelligent Systems Centre, a University Research Centre co-funded by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Singapore Engineering Technologies from 2003 to 2006. Currently, he is a Full Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), NTU.

He has authored three books entitled “Dynamic Fuzzy Neural Networks: Architectures, Algorithms and Applications” and “Engineering Mathematics with Real-World Applications” published by McGraw Hill in 2003 and 2005 respectively, and “Theory and Novel Applications of Machine Learning” published by In-Tech in 2009, eleven book chapters and more than 300 refereed journal and conference papers in his research areas of interest. Professor Er was the winner of the Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES) Prestigious Publication (Application) Award in 1996 and IES Prestigious Publication (Theory) Award in 2001. He was awarded a Commonwealth Fellowship tenable at University of Strathclyde in 2000. Due to his excellent performance in teaching, he received the Teacher of the Year Award for the School of EEE in 1999, School of EEE Year 2 Teaching Excellence Award in 2008 and the Best Session Presentation Award at the World Congress on Computational Intelligence in 2006. Furthermore, together with his students, he has won 30 awards at international and local competitions.

He served as the Editor of IES (Institution of Engineers, Singapore) Journal on Electronics and Computer Engineering from 1995 to 2004. Currently, he serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the IES Journal B on Intelligent Devices and Systems, an Area Editor of International Journal of Intelligent Systems Science and an Associate Editor of ten refereed international journals, namely IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, Neurocomputing, International Journal of Humanoid Robots, Journal of Robotics, International Journal of Mathematical Control Science and Applications, International Journal of Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, International Journal of Fuzzy and Uncertain Systems, International Journal of Automation and Smart Technology and the Open Electrical and Electronic Engineering Journal. Furthermore, he is the Lead Editor of the International Journal of Robotics and is a Guest Editor of International Journal of Neural Systems. He has been invited as a keynote speaker, panelist and invited speaker of more than 60 conferences/workshops/seminars/technical talks overseas and he served as General Chair and a member of International Program Committee of more than 40 international conferences.

Together with his postgraduate and undergraduate students, Professor Er has won the following international and national awards:

• Outstanding Display Award at the EEE Technology Exhibition, held from 7 to 9 March, 2000, for the final-Year Project entitled “Design and Development of an Automatic Control System for a Dutch Aquarium”.
• Bronze medal at the EEE Technology Exhibition held from 5 to 9 March, 2001 for the Final-Year Project entitled “Design and Development of an Intelligent Pole Balancing Robot”. This project was featured in the section on News and View/Technology of ProjectEyeball on 7 March and 19 March, 2001.
• Silver medal at the EEE Technopreneurship Competition held from 19 to 26 June, 2001, for the In-house Practical Training Project entitled “Design and Development of an Intelligent Controller for a Pole Balancing Robot”.
• IES Outstanding Publication Award (Student Category) in Electronic and Computer Engineering held from 8 June to 15 August, 2001 for the paper entitled “Intelligent Control of a Pole Balancing Robot”. This paper was selected from 20 papers submitted from local Institutions of Higher Learning. The winning project was featured in the NTU News in January, 2002.
• Top ten most outstanding exhibits in the College of Engineering Technology Exhibition held from 8 to 13 March, 2002, for the research project entitled “A New Approach Towards Designing Hybrid Fuzzy Controllers”.
• First Prize in the IEEE Region 10 Postgraduate Student Paper Contest 2002 for the paper entitled “Online Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems Using Dynamic Fuzzy Neural Networks”. This is the first time an NTU Postgraduate Student has won the First Prize in the IEEE Region 10 Student Paper Contest. The contest is open to all postgraduate students in the Asia Pacific Region. The winning paper was featured in the NTU News in July, 2002.
• Singapore Millennium Foundation Award 2002 for the project entitled “Robust Adaptive Fuzzy Neural Modeling and Control”. This is one of the 30 projects selected from more than 500 applications. The winning project was featured in the E3 World.
• Finalist in the Asia Young Inventors Awards held on 22 October, 2002 in Hong Kong for the project entitled “Classification of Breast Masses Using Dynamic Fuzzy Neural Networks”. This project was selected from 173 entries. The winning project was featured in the NTU News in January, 2003.
• Finalist in the 4th Asian Control Conference Best Student Paper Competition 2002 for the paper entitled “Design of Mixed-Type Fuzzy Logic Controller by Computing with Words”. The winning paper was featured in the NTU News in January, 2003.
• IES Outstanding Publication Award (Student Category) in Electronic and Computer Engineering held from 8 June to 15 August, 2002 for the paper entitled “Real-time Implementation of a Dynamic Fuzzy Neural Networks Controller for a SCARA”. This paper was selected from 15 papers submitted from Institutions of Higher Learning in Singapore. The winning project was featured in the NTU News in July, 2003.
• IES Outstanding Publication Award (Student Category) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering held from 30 May, 2003 to 31 July, 2003 for the paper entitled “Adaptive Noise Cancellation Using Enhanced Dynamic Fuzzy Neural Networks”. This paper was selected from 21 papers submitted from Institutions of Higher Learning in Singapore. The winning project was featured in the NTU News in April, 2004.
• IES Outstanding Publication Award (Student Category) in Health and Safety Engineering held from 30 May, 2003 to 31 July, 2003, for the paper entitled “Design and Development of an Ultrasound Imaging Algorithm for Breast Cancer Detection”. The winning project was featured in the NTU News in April, 2004.
• First prize in the Inaugural MATLAB Novelty Design Competition, organized by TechSource Pte Ltd held from November, 2003 to March, 2004, for the project entitled “Intelligent Control of a Mobile Robot”. Opened to final year undergraduates, entries were submitted in late November 2003 by 21 teams from various divisions in the School of EEE, including Photonics, Control and Instrumentation, Information Engineering, and Circuits and System. Under the supervision by their respective professors, seven teams were short-listed and given about three months to prepare, submit a report on their project and present to a panel of nine judges. The teams were judged on five key criteria, namely design & approach (25%), software/hardware application (20%), practical ability/innovativeness (20%), oral presentation/demonstration (20%), and report (15%). A press release of the results was given in April 2004. Please refer to the website http://www.techsource.com.sg for more details. The winning entry was featured in the E3 World (Vol. 8 No. 2 Sept., 04 – Feb., 05 issue).
• IES Outstanding Publication Award (Student Category) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering held from 30 May, 2004 to 31 July, 2004. Sole Supervisor of the paper entitled “Goal Seeking of Mobile Robots Using Dynamic Fuzzy Q-Learning”. This paper was selected from 21 papers submitted from Institutions of Higher Learning in Singapore.
• Merit Award at the EEE Design and Innovation Project Competition held from 4 May, to 10 June, 2005 for the project entitled “Modelling and Control of a Humanoid Robot”.
• First Prize in STMicroelectronics Final Year Project (Microcontrollers) Competition 2006.
• First Prize in IES Publication Award (Category of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) 2006 for the paper entitled “Intelligent Control of a mini Unmanned Ground Vehicle”.
• First prize in the Most Popular Research Project Competition at the College of Engineering Technology Week Exhibition held on 11 March, 2006 for the Research Project entitled “Self Learning and Intelligent Control of a Humanoid Robot”. This project will be featured in the E3 World.
• Third prize in the Most Popular Undergraduate Project Competition at the College of Engineering Technology Week Exhibition held on 11 March, 2006 for the Final-Year Project entitled “Robust Adaptive Control of a Pole Balancing Robot”.
• Titanium Award in URECA Project Competition (Category of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) 2006 for the project entitled “Real-time Intelligent Control of a Humanoid”.
• First prize in the NTU Student Branch Undergraduate Student Paper Writing Competitions 2007.
• Second prize in the NTU Student Branch Undergraduate Student Paper Writing Competitions 2007.
• Consolation prize in the Most Popular Research Project Competition held in conjunction of the College of Engineering Technology Week Exhibition on 8 March, 2008. The research project is entitled “Tracking Maneuvering Targets in Wireless Sensor Networks”.
• Consolation prize in the Most Popular Undergraduate Project Competition held in conjunction of the College of Engineering Technology Week Exhibition on 8 March, 2008. The final-Year project is entitled “Intelligent Control of a Humanoid Robot”.
• URECA Conference Support for Yu Jun for presenting two papers at 2008 Chinese Control and Decision Conference which will be held from 2 to 4 July, 2008 in Yantai, China.
• Second Prize in the EEE Design and Innovation Project Competition, held from 5 May, to 6 June, 08. The project is entitled “Design and Development of a Human-size Robot”.
• Third Prize in the Freescale Technology Forum Design Challenge Europe held on 7 Oct, 2008. The project is entitled “Kinetic Energy Recovery System for Vehicles”.
• Third prize in the Most Popular Undergraduate Project Competition held in conjunction of the College of Engineering Technology Week Exhibition on 14 March, 2009. The final-Year project is entitled “Design and Development of a Humanoid Robot with Obstacle Overcoming Ability”.
• Consolation prize in the Most Popular Research Project Competition held in conjunction of the College of Engineering Technology Week Exhibition on 14 March, 2009. The research project is entitled “A Mobile-Robot-Based Health Care System”.