Victor Parque

Victor Parque (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in systems engineering from National Central University, in 2004, the M.B.A. degree from the Graduate School of Business Administration, Esan University, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree from the Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems, Waseda University, in 2011. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Modern Mechanical Engineering, Waseda University, and a JSUC Tokunin Professor with the Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Toyota Technological Institute, in 2012 and 2014, and an Assistant Professor with Waseda University, in 2014 and 2018. He has authored more than 100 articles in journals, conferences, and book chapters. He is actively involved in research collaborations with both industry and academia. His research interests include the principles and applications of learning and intelligent systems in design engineering, mechatronics, robotics, optimization, planning, and control. He was honored as a Finalist in the Hummies Awards for Human-Competitive Results, in 2018. He is a member of IEEE (CIS, RAS, IES, and SMC), ACM (SIGAI and SIGEVO), and Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ).