John Mo, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

Prof. John Mo is Professor of Manufacturing Engineering and formerly Head of Discipline of Manufacturing and Materials Engineering at RMIT University, Australia. The Discipline has 400 students, in which 150 students are postgraduate and PhD students. Prior to joining RMIT, he was Senior Principal Research Scientist in Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation (CSIRO), the Australian government research agency. He led research teams with 20 researchers working on many large government and industry sponsored projects including electricity market simulation, infrastructure protection, wireless communication, fault detection and operations scheduling. In particular, the fault detection and diagnosis projects have continued from CSIRO to RMIT. The research outcomes have been incorporated into many CNC machine controls to ensure smooth and faultless operations due to complexity and sophistication of this type of machine tools. Prof. Mo graduated from University of Hong Kong in Mechanical Engineering in 1975 and received his PhD from Loughborough University (UK) in 1989. He has over 400 publications including three monographs, 180 journal articles and 220 refereed conferences papers, 15 book chapters, 12 public reports, 18 keynote speeches and undisclosed number of commercial consultancy reports. He has also chaired over 20 international conferences in Europe, Asia and Australia.

TBA......