Faculty Profiles

Colleges and Departments

Dr. Heping Chen

  • Associate Professor at Ingram School of Engineering, College of Science & Engineering

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Chair, Presidential Award Nomination Committee. 2023 - Present.
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021 - Present.
  • Member, IT representative of MFGE. September 2019 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 2018 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. 2018 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Measurement and Control, Journal. 2018 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE RA-L. 2017 - Present.
  • Member, Personnel Committee. September 2017 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Assembly Automation, Journal. 2012 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Trans. on Auto. Sci. and Eng. 2010 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Journal. 2010 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. 2010 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, International conferences, IEEE Cyber, IEEE Robio, ICRA etc. 2010 - Present.
  • Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Industrial Robot. 2010 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Industrial Robots, an Inter. Journal. 2008 - Present.

2024

  • Chair, IEEE Int. Conf. on CYBER Technol. in Autom., Control and Intell. Syst. 2024.
  • Member, Bobcat Day. 2023 - 2024.

2023

  • World Robot Conference, 2023. 2023.
  • Member, Department Research Committee. 2020 - 2023.
  • Member, Presidential Award Nomination Committee. January 2019 - 2023.

2022

  • Member, Faculty Search Committee. 2022.

2021

  • Member, ME Program Proposal-Writing Team. September 2020 - 2021.
  • Member, Civil Engineering Associate Professor Search Committee. September 2020 - 2021.
  • Member, Civil Engineering Assitant Professor Search Committee. September 2020 - 2021.
  • Member, ABET. 2016 - 2021.
  • Chair, IEEE Int. Conf. on CYBER Technol. in Autom., Control and Intell. Syst. July 31, 2020 - August 3, 2021.
  • Chair, ME Program Proposal-Advisory Team. September 2020 - May 2021.

2019

  • Co-Chair, IEEE Int. Conf. on CYBER Technol. in Autom., Control and Intell. Syst. January 2019 - August 2019.
  • Chair, IEEE Int. Conf. on CYBER Technol. in Autom., Control and Intell. Syst. July 2018 - August 1, 2019.

2018

  • Co-Chair, IEEE Int. Conf. on CYBER Technol. in Autom., Control and Intell. Syst. 2018.
  • Chair, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO). 2018.

2017

  • Program Chair, IEEE Int. Conf. on CYBER Technol. in Autom., Control and Intell. Syst. 2017.
  • Representative, Library Representative. 2016 - 2017.

2016

  • Participant, Engineering Insight Days. 2016.
  • Participant, Bobcat Day. 2012 - 2016.
  • Member, Student career advising. 2012 - 2016.
  • Judge/Mentor, Best Robotics. 2011 - 2016.

2015

  • Program Co-Chair, IEEE Int. Conf. on Robot. and Biomimetics (ROBIO). 2015.
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robot. and Autom. 2012 - 2015.
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Intell. Robots and Sys. 2010 - 2015.
  • Judge, Involved in the Best Robotics Competition. 2010 - 2015.

2014

  • Member, Faculty search committee. 2014.
  • New Student Orientation. 2014.
  • Program Co-Chair, IEEE Int. Conf. on CYBER Technol. in Autom., Control and Intell. Syst. 2014.
  • Travel Award Chair, The IEEE Int. Conf. on Robot. and Autom. 2014.
  • Technical Program Committee Chair (Mechatronics), 9th IEEE Conf. on Ind. Electron. and Appl. (ICIEA). 2014.

2013

  • Exhibition Chair, IEEE Int. Conf. on Autom. Sci. and Eng. (CASE). 2013.

2012

  • Participant, Austin Science and Engineering Festival (ASEF). 2012.
  • Technical Program Committee Chair (Mechatronics), 7th IEEE Conf. on Ind. Electron. and Appl. (ICIEA). 2012.
  • Session Chair, Int. Conf. on Adv. in Materials and Manufacturing Processes. 2012.
  • Faculty Mentor, H-LSAMP (Houston-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Scholars) program in Texas State University. 2011 - 2012.
  • Hub Director, Bobcat Best Robotics. 2010 - 2012.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Regular reviewer of international Journal and conference papers. 2000 - 2012.

2011

  • New Student Orientation. 2011.
  • Industrial Session Chair, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics. 2011.
  • Session Chair, 6th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications. 2011.
  • Session Chair, IEEE International Conf. on Robotics and Automation. 2011.
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Intl. Conf. on on Autom. Sci. and Eng. 2011.
  • Speaker, Invited talk to high school students at the San Marcos Academy. November 1, 2011.

2010

  • Workshop Chair, IEEE Intl. Conf. on on Autom. Sci. and Eng. 2010.
  • Session Chair, IEEE Intl. Conf. on on Autom. Sci. and Eng. 2010.
  • Invention/patent Review Manager, ABB. 2008 - 2010.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, ABB external exhibition/show to promote ABB technology to customers. 2007 - 2010.
  • Other, Business case development with ABB Robotics Division. 2007 - 2010.
  • Chair R&D cooperation meetings among different research centers. 2007 - 2010.

2009

  • Session Chair, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Intell. Robots and Sys. 2009.
  • Special session Chair, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Intell. Robots and Sys. 2009.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, [20] Organized the Moving Line Assembly technology demonstration at ABB Technology Days. 2009.

2008

  • Exhibition Chair, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Autom. Sci. and Eng. 2008.
  • Attendee / Participant, Involved in the ABB Paint Programming and Simulation Workshop. 2008.
  • Attendee / Participant, Involved in the ABB RobotStudio PowerPac Strategic Planning Seminar. 2008.