Howard Li
Professor, Namibia University of Science and Technology
Introduction
Howard Li is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Canada. He is a registered professional engineer in the Province of Ontario. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Certificate in University Teaching from the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He received his certificate in Team Based Project Management from the School of Business, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University, China. Dr. Li is a board member of the IEEE SA Standards Board. He chairs the IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award committee, one of the highest technical recognitions given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers professional society. He is honoured to chair the first autonomous robotics standard ever published by the IEEE, with over 100 group members from academia, industry, and government agencies from all continents. Dr. Li is a visiting professor of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland and Università di Pavia, Italy, etc. Before joining UNB, he was employed by Atlantis Systems International in the development of training systems for the F/A-18 Hornet fighter aircraft for the Boeing company, Canadian Forces, Royal Australian Air Force, and training systems for the Royal Danish Air Force. He has developed software and hardware for both civilian and military applications. Dr. Li’s research interests are UxVs (unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned ground vehicles, unmanned underwater vehicles), motion planning, Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM), mechatronics, control systems, robotics, multi-agent systems, and artificial intelligence.
