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Biography: Makoto Iwasaki received his B.S., M.S., and Dr. Eng. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology (NIT), Japan, in 1986, 1988, and 1991, respectively. He is currently Vice President of NIT, responsible for international affairs, and a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering.
As an active contributor to the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), he has served in various leadership roles, including Chair of the IES Fellow Evaluation Committee (2022–2023), Co-Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2016–2022), and Vice President for Planning and Development (2018–2021), among others. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2015 for his "contributions to fast and precise positioning in motion controller design." He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ) and a member of the Science Council of Japan.
Dr. Iwasaki has received numerous prestigious academic, foundation, and government awards, including the Best Paper and Technical Awards from IEEJ, the Nagamori Award, the Ichimura Prize, and the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Japanese Minister of Education. He has also been recognized in the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2024 by Stanford University and Elsevier.
His current research interests focus on the application of advanced control theories to linear and nonlinear modeling, precision positioning, and intelligent motion control, through extensive collaboration with industry.

Biography: John P. T. Mo is Professor of Manufacturing Engineering and former Head of Manufacturing and Materials Engineering at RMIT University, Australia, since 2006. He has been an active researcher in manufacturing and complex systems for over 35 years and worked for educational and scientific institutions in Hong Kong and Australia. From 1996, John was a Project Manager and Research Team Leader with Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) for 11 years leading a team of 15 research scientists working on high value industrial projects. A few highlights of the projects that John led in CSIRO and in RMIT include: signal diagnostics for plasma cutting machines, ANZAC ship alliance engineering analysis, optimisation of titanium machining for aerospace industry, critical infrastructure protection modelling and analysis, polycrystalline diamond cutting tools on multi-axes CNC machine, system analysis for support of complex engineering systems, national Electronic Product Code demonstrator (for Australia). John has been academic advisor for a number of educational institutions in the Australasian region on their engineering program development and operations. John obtained his doctorate from Loughborough University, UK and is a Fellow of Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK) and Institution of Engineers Australia.