Dr. ZHOU Yi
Lecturer of School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Project Leader of Advanced Robotics & Intelligent System Centre (ARICC)
Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore.

Phone: (65) 6870-7873, Fax: (65) 6772-1974
Office: T1026
Email: zhouyi@sp.edu.sg
Personal WebSite: http://aricc.sp.edu.sg/~zhouyi/

Biography

  • EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
    PhD (Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, 2008)
    B. Engineering (First Class Hons.) (Electrical and Electronic Engineering from NTU, Singapore, 2004)
    Certificate in Teaching (Higher Education), 2008.

  • PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
    Lecturer of Singapore Polytechnic since May, 2007;
    Founding Secretariat of RoboCup (Singapore) Assocation (RoboCup-SG), since 2008;
    Bidding committee for Singapore to host RoboCup 2010, 2008
    Research Scholar at Nanyang Technological University from 2004-2007.

  • R&D Projects
    Tele-robotics system for education and assistive applications, PI, Toteboard R&D model project, 2009-2011; Development of emotional expression system for social robots, Co-PI, Toteboard R&D model project, 2009-2011;
    Underwater robot swarm, Co-PI, Toteboard R&D model project, 2007-2009;
    Team leader for Robot World Cup (RoboCup) Champion Competition, Standard Platform League, Singapore Polytechnic, 2009;
    Team member for Robot World Cup (RoboCup) Champion Competition, RoboCup@Home, Singapore Polytechnic, 2009.

  • TEACHING EXPERIENCE
    Interactive Design Technology 3 (Module Coordinator);
    Teaching and Module Development Member of
    Principle of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
    Structural Programming
    Innovation Design Project
    Intelligent Systems
    Computer Control System
    Quality and Reliability
    Dynamics & Control

  • AWARDS and HONORS
    R&D Publication Award, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Singapore Polytechnic, 2008.
    Gold prize for the most popular research award in College of Engineering Exhibition (COE), NTU, 2006.
    Bronze EEE Color Award, for excellent achievements in academe and activities NTU, 2004.
    Certificate of merit for publication award (student category, Institution of Engineers), Singapore, 2004.

  • Culture Activities
    Adviser of Chinese Culture and Music Society, Singapore Polytechnic, 2009-present.
    Supervised students in participating Chinese Bridge Competition (Singapore), 1st prize winner (2008), 2nd prize winner (2009), 3rd prize winner (2009).
    Winner of Sin-Malaysia and Sin-Australia Chinese Debating Game.
    Manager and Captain of NTU Chinese Debating Squad, 2002-2006.
    Champion, Captain and Best Speaker, NTU Inter-Hall & Inter-School Chinese Debates, 2002-2004.

  • SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
    1. Meng Joo Er and Yi Zhou, Theory and novel applications of machine learning, book editor, published by Intechweb publisher.
    2. Yi Zhou and Meng Joo Er: An Evolutionary Approach Toward Dynamic Self-Generated Fuzzy Inference Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 963-969, August, 2008.
    3. Meng Joo Er and Yi Zhou: Automatic generation of fuzzy inference systems via unsupervised learning, Neural Networks, Vol. 21, No. 10, pp. 1556-1566, December 2008 .
    4. Meng Joo Er and Yi Zhou: A novel framework for automatic generation of fuzzy neural networks, Neurocomputing, Vol. 71, pp. 584-591, 2008.
    5. Meng Joo Er and Yi Zhou: Dynamically self-generated fuzzy neural networks with industry applications, book chapter in Softcomputing Applications in Industry, pp. 47-68, April, 2008, Springer-Verlag.
    6. Yi Zhou and Meng Joo Er: A novel approach for generation of fuzzy neural networks, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 8-13, 2007.
    7. Yi Zhou, Meng Joo Er and Yu Wen: A hybrid approach for automatic generation of fuzzy inference systems without supervised learning, Proceeding of American Control Conference 2007 (ACC2007), New York, USA, pp. 3371-3376, July, 2007.
    8. Yi Zhou and Meng Joo Er: "Dynamic fuzzy Q-learning control of humanoid robots for automatic gait synthesis", International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 8, No.4, pp. 190-199, 2006.
    9. Meng Joo Er, Yi Zhou and Lin Chen: "Design of proportional parallel distributed compensators for nonlinear systems", International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, Vol. 27, Nos. 2/3, pp.204-211, 2006.
    10. Yi Zhou and Meng Joo Er: A novel Q-learning approach with continuous states and action, Proceeding of IEEE Multi-conference on Intelligent Control, Singapore, 2007.
    11. Meng Joo Er and Yi Zhou: Intelligent fuzzy Q-learning control of humanoid robots. Lecture notes in computer science, vol. 3498, J. Wang, X. Liao and Y. Zhang, Eds, pp.216-221, 2005.
    12. Yi Zhou and Meng Joo Er: Dynamic fuzzy Q-learning control of uncertain systems with applications to humanoids. Proceeding of 2005 IEEE Conference of Control Applications (CCA2005), in Toronto, Canada, pp.459 - 464, 2005.
    13. Meng Joo Er and Yi Zhou: Dynamic self-generated fuzzy systems for reinforcement learning. Proceeding of International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modeling Control and Automation 2005 (CIMCA05), in Vienna, Austria, pp. 193-198, 2005.
    14. Meng Joo Er and Yi Zhou: A novel reinforcement learning approach for automatic generation of fuzzy inference systems. Proceeding of 2006 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, in Vancouver, BC, Canada, pp. 100- 105, 2006.
    15. Yi Zhou and Meng Joo Er: A hybrid self-learning approach for generating fuzzy inference systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4233, I. King, J. Wang, L. Chan, L. and D. Wang, (Eds.), in Hong Kong, pp. 1002-1011, 2006.
    16. Meng Joo Er, Yi Zhou and Chiang-Ju Chien: Gait synthesis self-generation by dynamic fuzzy Q-learning control of humanoid robots, Proceeding of 2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEESMC06), in Taipei, Taiwan, vol. 5, pp. 4231-4236, 2006.
    17. Yi Zhou and Meng Joo Er: Self-generation of fuzzy inference systems by enhanced dynamic self-generated fuzzy Q-learning, Proceeding of 9th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV2006), in Singapore, 2006.
    18. Jing Zhou, Meng Joo Er and Yi Zhou: Adaptive neural network control of uncertain nonlinear systems in the presence of input saturation, Proceeding of 9th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV2006), in Singapore, 2006.
    19. Yi Zhou and Meng Joo Er: Self-learning in obstacle avoidance of a mobile robot via dynamic self-generated fuzzy Q-learning, Proceeding of International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modeling Control and Automation 2006 (CIMCA06),in Sydney, Australia, 2006.
    20. Yi Zhou, Meng Joo Er and Yu Wen: A hybrid approach for automatic generation of fuzzy inference systems without supervised learning, Proceeding of American Control Conference 2007 (ACC2007), New York, USA, pp. 3371 - 3376, July, 2007.