Kai-Tai Song was born in Taipei , Taiwan , Republic of China in 1957. He received his B.S. degree in power mechanical engineering from National Tsing Hua University in 1979 and his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium in 1989. He was with the Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology from 1981 to 1984. Since 1989 he has been on the faculty and is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Control Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He served as the chairman of the Society of IEEE Robotics and Automation, Taipei Chapter in 1998. Since 2007, he has been an Associate Dean of Office of Research and Development at Chiao Tung University . His areas of research interest include mobile robots, image processing, visual tracking, sensing and perception, embedded systems, intelligent system s , and mechatronics.

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