T.C. (Steve) Hsia

Professor
Systems, Control, and Robotics Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616
916-752-1443

Dr. T.C. Hsia received the B.S. degree from the National Taiwan University and the PhD. degree from Purdue University, both in Electrical Engineering. He is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California at Davis, where he joined the faculty in 1965. He has been engaged in research and teaching in the areas of system identification, adaptive control, and adaptive signal processing. Since 1981, he has focused his research and teaching efforts in robotics and has established a Robotics Research Laboratory for experimental studies. He has published over 140 papers on these subjects. He is the author of the book, System Identification, published by Lexington Books in 1977. In 1986, he founded the International Journal of Robotics and Automation, published by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), and served and Editor-in-Chief until 1993.

During his sabbatical leaves he visited the Siemens Research Laboratories in Karlsruhe, Germany and Vienna, Austria; the Imperial College, London England; and Purdue University. He is an Adjunct Professor of Computer and Systems Science at Nankai University, and of Automatic Control at Central South University of Technology, both in China.

Dr. Hsia is a Fellow of the IEEE. He was the General Chair of the 1991 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Sacramento, CA; Program Chair of the First Chinese World Congress on Intelligent Control and Intelligent Automation in Beijing, China, 1993; and the General Chair of IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Manufacturing in Cancun, Mexico, 1995. He has been the Vice President of Finance of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society since 1993.