Tzyh-Jong Tarn

Biography

Tzyh Jong Tarn is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering and the Director of the Center for Robotics and Automation at Washington University. He also is the director of the Center for Quantum Information Science and Technology at Tsinghua University. An active member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, Dr. Tarn served as the President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 1992-1993, the Director of the IEEE Division X (Systems and Control), 1995-1996, and a member of the IEEE Board of Directors, 1995-1996. He is the first recipient of the Nakamura Prize at the 10th Anniversary of IROS in Grenoble, France, 1997, the recipient of the prestigious Joseph F. Engelberger Award of the Robotic Industries Association in 1999, the Auto Soft Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000, the Pioneer in Robotics and Automation Award in 2003 from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and the George Saridis Leadership Award from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society in 2009. He was featured in the Special Report on Engineering of the 1998 Best Graduate School issue of US News and World Report and his recent research accomplishments were reported in the Washington Times, Washington D.C., the Financial Times, London, Le Monde, Paris, and the Chicago Sun-Times. Dr. Tarn is a Fellow of IEEE and an IFAC Fellow.