Professor Mingcong Deng receives 2014 SMC Meritorious 
Service Award
three SMC  Conferences, served for 8 SMC-sponsored conferences as IPC member, and 
Program Co-Chair at the other two IEEE-sponsored conferences, served for 15 IEEE-
sponsored conferences as IPC member. Dr. Deng is Associate Editor of IEEE T-ASE and 
has made pioneering contributions to the area of nonlinear systems control and fault 
detection on thermoelectric conversion processes and plants with smart material actuators. 
He contributed a book entitled "Operator-Based Nonlinear Control Systems Design and 
Applications" to the SMCS solely sponsored IEEE/Wiley Book Series on Systems Science 
and Engineering. He is the author and co-author of more than 125 peer-reviewed journal 
papers and 180 international conference proceeding papers. 
Professor Deng received his BS and MS from Northeastern University, China, Ph.D. in 
Systems Science from Kumamoto University, Japan, in 1997. From 1997 to 2010 he served 
Kumamoto University, University of Exeter (UK), NTT Communication Science Laboratories 
(Japan) and Okayama University (Japan). He is presently a full time professor at the Tokyo 
University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan.
Prof. Deng specializes in three complementary areas: Operator based nonlinear fault 
detection and fault tolerant control system design; System design on thermoelectric 
conversion elements; Applications on smart material actuators. Prof. Deng has over 300 
publications including 125 journal papers, 9 books (or chapters.) He serves as a chief editor 
for International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems (IJAMechS) and Global Journal of 
Technology and Optimization (GJTO), and associate editors of 6 international journals, 
including with IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering.
 
Mingcong Deng, Professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and 
Technology received the IEEE SMC 2014 Meritorious Service Award for 
meritorious and significant service to SMC Society-sponsored activities.
 Dr. Deng served as the IEEE SMC Society Program Chair of the 2009
 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, 
General Co-Chair of International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems for 2011, 
2012, 2013, 2014 sponsored by SMCS, Special session Co-Chair and Advisory Committee at