2nd International Conference on Robotics and Rehabilitation Intelligence

Naoyuki Kubota is currently a professor of the Department of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. He graduated from Osaka Kyoiku University in 1992, received the M.E. degree from Hokkaido University in 1994, and received the D.E. degree from Nagoya University, Japan in 1997. He was an assistant professor and lecturer at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan, from 1997 to 2000. He joined the Department of Human and Artificial Intelligence Systems, Fukui University, Japan, as an associate professor in 2000. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan, as an associate professor in 2004. He was an associate professor from 2005 to 2012, and has been a professor since 2012 at the Department of System Design in Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. He was a visiting professor at University of Portsmouth, UK, in 2007 and 2009, and was an invited visiting professor at Seoul National University from 2009 to 2012. His current interests are in the fields of coevolutionary computation, fuzzy control, spiking neural networks, perception-based robotics, robot partners, and informationally structured space. He has published more than 400 refereed journal and conference papers in the above research fields. He received the Best Paper Award of IEEE IECON'96, the Best Paper Award of IEEE CIRA'97, and so on.
He was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems from 1999 to 2010, Editorial
Board Member of Advanced Robotics from 2004 to 2007. He has been an Editorial Board Member of
Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics since 2004, an Associate
Editor of Journal of Control, Measurement and System Integration from 2007 to 2011, the IEEE CIS
Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee, Robotics Task Force Chair from 2007 to 2014,
Editor of ROBOMECH Journal since 2012, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Japan Chapter
Chair since 2018, Steering Committee Member for the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing since
2019, and others. He was Program Co-Chair of CIRAS 2003, Special Session Co-Chair of IEEE
CIRA2003, Program Co-Chair of AMiRE 2005, Program Chair of SCIS & ISIS 2006, Program Co-Chair
of IFMIP 2006, IFMIP 2008 and IFMIP 2010, Regional Program Co-Chair of IEEE CIRA2007, Technical
Co-Chair of AMiRE 2007, Tutorial and Workshop Co-Chair of IEEE Robio 2007, Technical Co-chair of
IEEE CEC 2007, Program Co-chair of ICIRA2008, Program Co-chair of IEEE RiiSS 2009 and IEEE
RiiSS 2011 in IEEE SSCI, Special Sessions Area Co-chair of FUZZ-IEEE 2009, Regional Program Co-
Chair of IEEE CIRA 2009, Area Co-chair of ICIRA2010, Special Session Co-chair of FUZZ-IEEE 2011,
General Chair of IWACIII 2012, Program Co-chair of MHS 2012, General Co-chair of IWACIII 2013,
Program Co-chair of IEEE RiiSS 2013 in IEEE SSCI, Program Co-chair of MHS 2013, Exhibits Co-chair
of IEEE WCCI 2014, Program Co-chair of IEEE MHS 2014, Special Session Co-chair of IEEE RO-MAN
2015, Conference Vice-Chair of RVSP 2013, Special Session Co-chair of TAAI 2015, Program Co-chair
of IEEE MHS 2015, Program Co-chair of IEEE CEC 2015, Program Committee Co-chair of CMCSN
2016, Organized Session Committee Co-chair of SCIS&ISIS 2016, Program Co-chair of IEEE MHS 2016,
Technical Co-chair of FUZZ-IEEE 2016, Special Session Chair of IEEE HSI 2016, General Chair of
ICIRA 2016, Program Co-chair of IEEE MHS 2017, General Co-chair of ICIRA 2017, Program Co-chair
of IEEE MHS 2018, Special Session Chair of IEEE SMC 2018, and others.

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