Biosketch
Toshio Fukuda graduated from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan in 1971 and received the Master of Engineering degree and the Doctor of Engineering degree both from the University of Tokyo, in 1973 and 1977, respectively. Meanwhile, he studied at the graduate school of Yale University from 1973 to 1975.

In 1977, he joined the National Mechanical Engineering Laboratory in Japan. From 1979 to 1980, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Stuttgart, West Germany. He joined the Science University of Tokyo in 1981, and then joined Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan in 1989. He joined Department of Micro System Engineering, Nagoya University in 1995. At present, he is Professor of Center for Cooperative Research in Advanced Science and Technology of Nagoya University, Japan, mainly engaging in the research fields of intelligent robotic system, self-organizing system, micro robotics, robotic system under hostile environment, bio-robotic system, neuromorphic intelligent control, fuzzy control, control of mechanical systems and technical diagnosis.

He is the Vice President of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society since 1990..He has been Member of the Administrative Committees in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and Industrial Electronics Society. He has been Publication Chair from 1991 to 1992 and Secretary of the IEEE Neural Network Council from 1992 to 1993. He has been Chair of the Division of Robotics and Mechatronics of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineering (JSME), Chair of the Technical Committee of Robotics in the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), Vice President of the International Fuzzy System Association (IFSA) since 1997, and Chair of many other technical committees. He is President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society since 1998. He has been the Steering Chair of the 1993 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. He has been the Founding General Chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems held for the first time in 1988 and Program Chair of the 1991 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. He has been General Chair of the 1995 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Program Co-Chair of the 1995 Fuzz-IEEE Conference and General Chair of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, and the Steering Member of many other international conferences.

He will be General Chair of the 2000 IEEE Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation Conference. He has received many awards such as the Best Video Award at the 1993 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, the Contribution Award from the Robotics and Mechatronics Division of JSME, the Best Paper Award at the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, the Best Paper Award at the 1996 IEEE Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation Conference, the IEEE Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award in 1997, the City of Grenoble Medal from Polytechnic University of Budapest, Hungary in 1997, and the Banki Donat Medal in 1997. Prof. Fukuda is an IEEE Fellow since 1995, and a SICE Fellow since 1995.

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