Jian Sheng Dai#
| Membership Number: | 6624 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://nms.kcl.ac.uk/jian.dai/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9729-1662 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - 2027 Editor-in-Chief, ROBOTICA, (journal established in 1983)
- 2015 - 2026 Subject Editor, Mechanism and Machine Theory, (journal established in 1966), subject on kinematics, mechanisms
- 2007 - present Chair Professor of Mechanisms and Robotics, King’s College London, United Kingdom
- 1999 - 2006 Lecturer (99-03), Reader (04-06), King’s College London, United Kingdom
- 1997 - 1999 Senior Lecturer, University of Sunderland, United Kingdom
- 1996 - 1997 Senior Industrial Research Fellow, Unilever Research, Port Sunlight Laboratory, United Kingdom
- 1993 - 1995 Post Doc Research Fellow, University of Salford, United Kingdom
- 1989 - 1993 Research Assistant, University of Salford, United Kingdom
- 2011 - 2013 Visiting Chair Professor, Institut Francais De Mecanique Avancee, France
- 2007 - 2010 Adjunct Senior Research Professor, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Theoretical kinematics
- Robotics
- Mechanisms
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), UK
- 2020 ASME Machine Design Award (top award in machine design), as the 58th since 1958, USA
- 2018 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Manufacture (FRSA), UK
- 2017 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE), USA
- 2016 Alumni Achievement Award, University of Salford, UK
- 2015 ASME DED Mechanisms and Robotics Award (top award in mechanisms), as the 27th since 1974, USA
- 2013 Mechanisms Innovation Award, by the Mechanisms Committee, as the 6th since 2003, China
- 2012 ASME Outstanding Service Award, USA
- 2011 Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (FASME), USA
- 2010 Overall Supervisory Excellence Award (1/3200), King’s College London, UK
- 2006 Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), UK
- 1995 Eur Ing (European Engineer) by Engineers Europe
- 1995 CEng (Chartered Engineer) of the Engineer Council in the United Kingdom.
- EU grants
- 2014 - 2018 EU award, FP7-ICT10-610532: SQUIRREL (€747,506)
- 2011 - 2014 EU award, FP7-ICT-270436: TOMSY (€600,768)
- 2010 - 2013 EU award, FP7-NMP2-SL-2010-246371: COSMOS (€398,539)
- 2011 - 2012 EU award, FP7-ECHORD Call 2, DEXDEB (€122,400)
- 2004 - 2007 EU award, FP7 LEAPFROG (€15,276)
