Dr. Tomislav Baček is a Senior Scientist at the Lake Lucerne Institute (LLUI), Vitznau, Switzerland, and an Honorary Fellow at The University of Melbourne, Australia. His research interests are in precision neurorehabilitation, human movement biomechanics, robot-assisted therapy, human–robot interaction, motor learning, and gait analysis. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Engineering from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, in 2011 and 2012, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, in 2019.Denny Oetomo conducts research in robot dynamics and human-robot interaction applied to assistive robotics technology. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Robotics) from National University of Singapore in 2004 and was a postdoctoral fellow at INRIA Sophia Antipolis and Monash University (2004-2007). He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne in 2008. He currently leads the robotic research activities in the Department in the topics of rehabilitation robotics, advanced prosthetics, and assistive robotics in industrial applications. Dana Kulić conducts research in robotics, learning and human-robot interaction (HRI). She received her combined B. A. Sc. and M. Eng. degrees in electro-mechanical engineering and Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 1998 and 2005, respectively. From 2006 to 2009, Dr. Kulić was a JSPS Post-doctoral Fellow and a Project Assistant Professor at the Nakamura-Yamane Laboratory at the University of Tokyo, Japan. From 2009 - 2018, she led the Adaptive System Laboratory at the University of Waterloo, Canada, conducting research in human robot interaction, human motion analysis for rehabilitation and humanoid robotics. Dr. Kulić is a professor and director of Monash Robotics at Monash University, Australia. In 2020, Dr. Kulić was awarded the ARC Future Fellowship. Ying Tan is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Melbourne, Australia. She received her bachelor’s degree from Tianjin University, China, in 1995, and her PhD from the National University of Singapore in 2002. She joined McMaster University in 2002 as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Since 2004, she has been with the University of Melbourne. She was awarded an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow (2006-2008) and a Future Fellow (2009-2013) by the Australian Research Council. Her research interests are in intelligent systems, nonlinear systems, realtime optimization, sampled-data systems, rehabilitation robotic systems, human motor learning, and model-guided machine learning.
