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Chandan Chakraborty
Chandan Chakraborty received B.E and M.E degrees in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University in 1987 and 1989 respectively and Ph.D degrees from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and Mie University, Japan in 1997 and 2000 respectively. Presently he is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. His research interest includes power converters, motor drives, electric vehicles and renewable energy. Dr. Chakraborty was awarded the JSPS Fellowship to work at the University of Tokyo (at Hongo Campus) during 2000-2002. He has received the Bimal Bose award in power electronics in 2006 from the IETE(India). He is an ADCOM member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He is one of the Associate Editors of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine and an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of IE Technology News (ITeN), a web-only publication for IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE).
Ravinder Dahiya is Reader and EPSRC Fellow in the School of Engineering at University of Glasgow, UK. He is the leader of Bendable Electronics and Sensing Technologies (BEST) group.
Kemalettin Erbatur
was born in 1971 in Japan. He received B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, in 1993, 1995, and 1998, respectively. In 1998 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan as a research associate. Since 1999, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yokohama National University, Japan, where he is currently an associate professor. His research interests include actuators, motion control, robotics, and manufacturing automation. Dr. Fujimoto is a member of IEEE IE Societies since 1993. He is also a member of IEE of Japan, Robotics Society of Japan, SICE, INFORMS, and IEICE.
was born in 1962 in Slovenia. He received B.E. in mechanical engineering from Ljubljana University, Slovenia in 1986, and M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in control engineering from Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, Japan, in 1991 and 1995, respectively. From 1991 until 1995 he worked at Harmonic Drive Systems, Inc., Nagano, Japan, from 1998 until 2001 he was an associate professor at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, since 2001 he has been with the Department of Information and Media Engineering, University of Kitakyushu, Japan, where he is a professor since 2004. His research interests include actuators, sensors, motion control and robotics. Prof. Godler is a member of IEEE IE Society since 1994 and other societies (RAS and CSS). Kazuaki Ito
received the B.E. degree in system design engineering and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in integrated design engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 2001, 2002 and 2004, respectively. From 2003 to 2005, he was a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. From 2005 to 2008, he was with Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan. Since 2008, he has been with Keio University, Yokohama, Japan. His research interests include real-world haptics, human support space, systems energy conversion, electromechanical integration systems. Prof. Katsura received the Best Paper Award from the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan in 2003, Dr. Yasujiro Niwa Outstanding Paper Award in 2004, and The 2008 European Power Electronics and Drives-Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, EPE-PEMC'08 Best Paper Award in 2008. He is a Member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IEEJ and Society of Instrumentation and Control Engineers. Kyoungchul Kong received the B.Eng. degree (summa cum laude) in mechanical engineering, the B.S. degree in physics in 2004, and the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering in 2006 from Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA, in 2009, where he later worked as Postdoctoral Research Fellow until 2011. Ryogo Kubo received the B.E. degree in system design engineering and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in integrated design engineering from Keio University, Japan, in 2005, 2007 and 2009, respectively. In 2007, he joined the NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan. Since 2010, he has been with Keio University, Japan, where he is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering. His research interests include system control, optical communications, networking, sensor-actuator networks, smart grid and mechatronics. Dr. Zheng Liu received his doctorate in engineering from Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) in 2000 and was awarded a second Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa in 2007. From 2000 to 2001, he was a research fellow with Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He then joined the Institute for Aerospace Research (IAR), National Research Council Canada (Ottawa, ON, Canada) as a governmental laboratory visiting fellow. After being with IAR for five years, he transferred to the NRC Institute for Research in Construction, where he held a research officer position. From 2012 to 2015, Dr. Liu worked as a full professor for Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan. In August 2015, Dr. Liu started his laboratory on ``intelligent sensing, diagnostics, and prognostics'' at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus (Kelowna, BC, Canada). His research interests include image/data fusion, computer vision, pattern recognition, senor/sensor network, condition-based maintenance, and non-destructive inspection and evaluation. Dr. Liu is a senior member of IEEE and member of SPIE. He is chairing the IEEE IMS TC-36. He holds a professional engineer license in Ontario. Dr. Liu also serves on the editorial board for journal IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Information Fusion, Machine Vision and Applications, and Intelligent Industrial Systems.
was born in Hanoi, Vietnam in 1980. He received B.E., M.E. degrees, all in electrical engineering, from Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam in 2002, 2004, , respectively. In 2007, he received Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan. From 2002, he is currently a researcher with Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam. His research interests include actuators, motion control, and power systems. Dr. Minh is a member of IEEE Industrial Electronics and Power & Energy Societies.
Chowarit Mitsantisuk received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Thammasat University, Pathumthani, Thailand, in 2004, and the M.Eng. degree in Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineering and D.Eng degree in energy and environment science from the Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan, in 2007 and 2010, respectively. From 2010 to 2012, he was also a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science with Nagaoka University of Technology. Since 2012, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Kasetsart University. His research interests include motion control, force control, human-robot interaction, sensor fusion, advanced medical device and real-world haptics. Dr. Chowarit is a Member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He was the recipient of the Best Presentation Award in the special session, Haptics for Human Support at the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control, and Instrumentation from the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. Yasue Mitsukura received her D.E. degree from the
University of Tokushima in 2001. Until 2004 she worked on the University of
Tokushima as an assistant professor and
subsequently on the Okayama University as a lecturer. From 2005
to 2010, she was an associate professor at Tokyo
University of Agriculture and Technology. Since 2011, she has been an
associate professor at Keio University. Her interests are
signal processing, EEG analysis, and image processing. She is a member of
SICE, RISP, and IEEE. Toshimasa Miyazaki
Naoki Motoi received the B.E. degree in system design engineering and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in integrated design engineering from Keio University, Japan, in 2005, 2007 and 2010, respectively.
From 2007 to 2011, he worked in Toyota Motor Corporation.
From 2011 to 2013, he was a research associate at Yokohama National University.
Since 2014, he has been with Kobe University as a lecturer.
His research interests include robotics, motion control, and haptic.
received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 1988, 1990, and 1993, respectively. In 1993, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Keio University, where he is currently a Professor in the Department of System Design Engineering. From 1999 to 2000, he was a Visiting Researcher with The Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives, Aachen University of Technology, Aachen, Germany. His research interests include robotics, intelligent vehicles, mobile robots, and motion control. Dr. Murakami is a member of IEEE IE Societies since 1993 and other societies (RAS). He is also a member of IEE of Japan and Robotics Society of Japan.
Manuel Nandayapa is a associate professor at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua, Mexico. Currently he is in the Department of Industrila and Manufacturing Engineering and he is a member of Signal Processing Research Group and he is a member of IEEE since 2007. His interest is about haptic interfaces, motion control and mechatronics systems.
received the B.E. degree in system design engineering and
the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in integrated design engineering from Keio
University, Yokohama, Japan, in 2004, 2006, and 2008, respectively.
>From 2009 to 2012, he was an Assistant Professor at Aoyama Gakuin
University, Kanagawa, Japan. Since 2012, he has been with Chiba
University, Chiba, Japan. His research interests include time-delay
systems, network-based control systems, haptics, power electronics, and
energy network. Stoyan Nihtianov received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics from the Technical University in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1980 and 1987, respectively. From 1987 till 1995 he was part of the Dept. of Electronics, Technical University - Sofia, where he was an associate professor, and was involved in research and teaching on analogue circuits and smart sensors. Since 1995 till 2000 he was with the Laboratory of Electronics, University of Technology - Delft, The Netherlands, where he was a senior research fellow engaged in the research and development of methods and electronic equipment for non-destructive testing.
Since 2000, he is with the high-tech company ASML, The Netherlands, in the position of a senior sensor specialist. Since 2003 he is also a part-time Associate professor in the Electronics Instrumentation lab of TU Delft, The Netherlands.
Stoyan Nihtianov is an author of numerous scientific papers in the field of sensors and sensor interface electronics. He is an author or a co-author of 26 patents in 11 countries, protecting 16 topics. He is also a co-author of two books and three book chapters. He is a senior member of IEEE since 1993, an associate editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal, and serves as a chair of the Technical committee of MEMS&Nanotechnology of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2013-2014).
received his Ph.D. degrees from Keio University, Japan, in 1999. He has
been selected as fellowships from Japan Society for Promotion of Science
from 1996 to 1999. He was a researcher in Real World Computing
Partnership from 1999 to 2001, and was a researcher in the Central
Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd in 2002. He was a lecturer of
Department of System Design Engineering, Keio University in 2003. Now,
he is a professor of Keio University since 2013 and a visiting professor
of National Institute of Informatics, Japan. He is a member of IEEE
since 2002, and contributing in IEEE Standards Association. He is also a
technical committee member of IEEE IES Building Automation Control and
Management, Smart Grid, Sensor and Actuators, and Standards.
His fields of interest include Sensor Networks, Data Management and
Communication Systems in Smart Grid and Smart Community. Naoki Oda received the BE, ME and Ph.D. from Keio University,
Japan in 1993, 1995 and 1998 respectively. He is currently a Professor
in the Department of Opto-Electronic System Engineering,
Chitose Institue of Science and Technology, Japan. His research interests
include motion control and robot vision for multidegrees-of-freedom manipulators,
mobile robots and biped walking robots.
He is a member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IEEJ and Society of
Instrumentation and Control Engineers.
Sehoon Oh received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1998, 2000, and 2005, respectively, all in electrical engineering.
Kiyoshi Ohishi is a professor of Electrical Engineering Department at Nagaoka University of Technology in Japan from 2002. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 1981, 1983, and 1986, respectively. He was with Nagaoka University of Technology as an associate professor from 1993 to 2002. His current research interests include motion control, robotics, mechatronics and power electronics. Now, he is an AdCom member of IEEE. Industrial Electronics Society. He is a member of Section and Chapter Committee of IEEE. Industrial Electronics Society. He is an associate Editor of Trans. on Industrial Electronics. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, Society of Instrument and Control Engineers and Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers.
He was born in Eibar (Gipuzkoa, Basque Country). He earned a MSc degree in Computer Science from the University of the Basque Country (2005), majoring in mobile computing. He has studied MSc degree in Automatic and Industrial Electronic Engineering at the same university (2010) with a background in digital electronics systems.
received the B.Sc. degree in applied physics from the Polytechnical University of Kharkov, Kharkov,
Ukraine, in 1997 and the Dipl.-Inf. degree in computer and electrical engineering and the Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University (TU) Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, in 2005 and 2012, respectively. During 2006-2013, he was a Research Associate with the Institute of Control Theory and Systems Engineering, TU Dortmund. In 2013-2015, he was with Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, where he was a specially appointed Assistant Professor. In 2015 he was an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Japan, before joining the University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway. He is a member of Department of Engineering Sciences at the University of Agder. His current research interests include precise motion control, nonlinear systems with memory, flexible robots, and smart material actuators. Dr. Ruderman served as a Member of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) 2014 International Workshop on Motion Control (AMC2014), the 2014 International Power Electronics Conference (IPEC2014), and the 2015 International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM2015) and as a Publication Co-chair for IEEE IES ICM2015. He is a Member of the Technical Committee on Motion Control and the Technical Committee on Sensors and Actuators of the IEEE IES. He is also Associate Editor of IFAC Mechatronics journal.
Full Professor at Sabanci University, Istanbul. He received B.S. degree in electrical engineering (in 1970) , M.S. degree and Dr. Eng. degree from University of Sarajevo. Since 1970 till 1991 he has been with Energoinvest-Institute for Control and Computer Sciences, Sarajevo. From 1991 he has been with University of Sarajevo, Department of Electrical Engineering. He has been Visiting Researcher at Institute of Control Science - Moscow (1975-1976). Visiting Professor at California Institute of Technology-CALTECH, Pasadena (1984-1985), Hitachi Chair Professor at Keio University, Yokohama (1991-1992), Full Professor at Yamaguchi University, Ube (1992-1993), Visiting Professor at University of Maribor - Maribor-Slovenia (Acad. Year 1986, 1988, 1989), Head of CAD/CAM and Robotics Department at Tubitak - Marmara Research Centre, Istanbul (1993-1995), Head of Engineering Department of B.H. Engineering and Consulting (1995-1999).
was born in 1983 in Japan. He received B.E. degree in system design
engineering and
M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in integrated design engineering from Keio
University, Yokohama, Japan, in 2006, 2008, and 2011 respectively. Since
2011, he has been with Saitama University, Saitama, Japan. His research
interests include mechatronics, motion control, robotics, and haptics.
He is a member of IEEE IE Society since 2007. He is also a member of IEE
of Japan and Robotics Society of Japan.
was born in 1968 in Japan. He received B.E, M.E, Ph.D from Keio University in Japan at '91, '93, '96, respectively. He is interested in the research areas of motion control in Robotics and image processing for object recognition. The main topics in recent years are Biped Robot, Multi-legged Robot, Visual Feedback Control, Eye-in-hand Robot, and so on. He is a member of Industrial Electronics Society and Robotics and Automation Society of IEEE. Sota Shimizu
Tomoyuki Shimono received the B.E. degree in mechanical engineering from
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 2004 and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees
in integrated design engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan,
in 2006 and 2007, respectively. From 2007 to 2008, he was a Research
Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. From 2007 to
2008, he was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at Keio University. From 2008 to
2009, he was a Research Associate with the Global Centers of Excellence
Program, Keio University. Since 2009, he has been with the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yokohama National University,
Yokohama, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research
interests include haptics, motion control, medical and rehabilitation
robots, and actuators. Satoshi Suzuki
Satoru Takahashi
Toshiaki Tsuji received the B.E. degree in system design engineering and the M.E. and Ph. D degrees
in integrated design engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 2001, 2003, and 2006,
respectively. He was a Research Associate in Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo University
of Science from 2006 to 2007. He is currently an Associate Professor in Department of Electrical and
Electronic Systems, Saitama University. His research interests include motion control, haptics and
rehabilitation robot. He received the FANUC FA and Robot Foundation Original Paper Award in 2007 and
2008.
was born in 1976 in Thailand. He received B.E. from King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand in '97, M.E. and Ph.D. from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan in '03, '07, respectively. He is interested in the research areas of motion control in Robotics. The main topics in recent years are high precision control, vibration suppression control, and impedance control in industrial robots. He is a member of Industrial Electronics Society and Robotics and Automation Society of IEEE. Yutaka Uchimura He received the B.E., M.E. degree and Ph.D. degrees from Keio
University, Japan, in 1989, 1991, and 2005 respectively. From 1991 to
2007, he was a senior researcher of Kajima Technical Research
Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
Since 2007, he has been with Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo,
Japan, where he is currently an Professor.
His main research areas are network-based control, robotics, real time
systems and computer networks .
Barkan Ugurlu (S'08-M'10) received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering fromYokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, in 2010, with the Monbukagakusho scholarship granted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Technology of Japan. From May 2010 to March 2013, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher, with the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy, and Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan. He is currently a Research Scientist with the Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto, Japan. His research interests include active orthoses and exoskeletons, robot-aided rehabilitation, humanoid/quadruped locomotion control, biological sensorimotor control and motor recovery, multibody dynamics, force, and compliance control. Shiro Urushihara
Professor (Auxiliar) in the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
Chair in Mechatronics Engineering
Daisuke YASHIRO (S'07, M'10) received the B.E. degree in system design engineering and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in integrated design engineering from Keio University, Japan, in 2007, 2009, and 2010, respectively. From 2009 to 2011, he was a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. From 2011 to 2012, he was a Research Associate at Keio University. Since 2012, he has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mie University, Japan. His research interests include motion control, power electronics, real-time information processing.
Yuki YOKOKURA received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Nagaoka University of Technology, Niigata, Japan, in 2007 and 2009, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in integrated design engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 2011. From 2010 to 2011, he was a JSPS(Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Research Fellow(DC2 and PD). He was a Visiting Fellow at Keio University, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Nagaoka University of Technology in 2011. Since 2012, he has been an Assistant Professor with Nagaoka University of Technology. His research interests include motion control, powerelectronics, and real-world haptics. Ahmad Zaki Shukor received the B.E. from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2002 and M.E. from University of South Australia in 2004. He obtained a PhD degree in Yokohama National University, Japan in 2013. Since 2002, he has been attached with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, where he is currently a Senior Lecturer. His research interests include actuators, robotics, and motion control. He is a graduate member of the Board of Engineers Malaysia.
Chi Zhu received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo,
Japan, in 1999. He was a researcher at NIRE (National
Institute for Resource and Environment, Japan)
and Yokohama National University in 1999 and 2000,
respectively. He was a post-doctoral associate at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology during 2001-
2002. He then worked as assistant professor with
the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at Yokohama National University, Japan. He is
currently an Associate Professor with Dept. of Systems
Life Engineering at Maebashi institute of Technology, Gunma, Japan.
Dr. Zhufs research interests include system dynamics and control, biped
walking and jumping, assistive and rehabilitation robotics, neuro-robotics.
was born in 1955 in Poland. She received M.Sc (1979) degree in electronics and control engineering and PhD (1986) in Robotics, both from Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), Poland. In 1995 she got D.Sc in Biocybernetics from Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2005 President of Poland nominated her full professor in the area of control and robotics. In 1986 she was employed by the Faculty of Aeronautics and Power Engineering in Warsaw University of Technology where she is currently the professor and vice-dean for general affairs. She is also the chair of European Master on Advanced Robotics program supported by EU. During her professional carrier she has been working in European and Non-European Universities, her research studies included manipulators, novel sensors, humanoidal robots and autonomous mobile robots - design anf implementation of control systems. Prof. Zielinska is senior member of IEEE since 2005 and is affiliated to RAS. |
Chandan Chakraborty (SM'01) 
Ravinder Dahiya 
Yasutaka FUJIMOTO (S'93-M'98-SM'12) 
Ivan GODLER (M'94) 
Seiichiro Katsura (S'03-M'04) 
Kyoungchul Kong 
Ryogo Kubo
Zheng Liu
Truong Ngoc MINH (M'09)
Chowarit Mitsantisuk 
Yasue Mitsukura
Naoki Motoi
Toshiyuki MURAKAMI (M'93-SM'13) 
Nandayapa Alfaro Manuel De Jesus
Kenji Natori 
Stoyan Nihtianov
Hiroaki Nishi
Naoki Oda
Sehoon Oh (S'05-M'06)
Kiyoshi Ohishi (M'86-SM'08) 
Txema Romero 
Michael Ruderman(S'08-M'09)
Asif Sabanovic (SM'04) 
Sho Sakaino(S'07, M'11) 
Masaaki Shibata (M'00)
Tomoyuki Shimono
Toshiaki Tsuji 
Somsawas Tungpataratanawong (M'07)
Barkan Ugurlu
Stanimir(STAN) Valtchev
Peter Xu (SM'99) 
Daisuke Yashiro
Yuki Yokokura
Armad Zaki Bin Shukor
Chi Zhu
Teresa ZIELINSKA (SM'05)