B.S. in Precision Mechanics from Kyoto University (March 1985)
M.S. in Precision Mechanics from Kyoto University (March 1987)
Ph.D from Osaka Prefecture University (November 1992)
Research Assistant, Osaka Prefecture University (April 1987 - April 1993)
Assistant Professor, Osaka Prefecture University (May 1993 - December 1993)
Associate Professor, Osaka Prefecture University (January 1994 - March 1999)
Visiting Researcher, University of Toronto (August 1994 - March 1995)
Visiting Researcher, University of Toronto (July 1997 - March 1998)
Professor, Osaka Prefecture University (April 1999 - )
Head, Computational Intelligence Research Center (April 2006 - )
Young Researcher Best Paper Award from Japan Industrial Management Association (May 1997)
RoboCup Japan Open 2004 JSAI Award from Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence (Osaka, Japan, May 2004)
Distinguished Contributions Award from Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics (June 2004)
GECCO-2004 Best Paper Award (Seattle, USA, June 2004)
ISIS-2005 Outstanding Paper Award (Yeosu, Korea, September 2005)
Outstanding Book Award from Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics (September 2006)
EFS-2006 Best Runner Up Paper Award (Ambleside, UK, September 2006)
HIS-NCEI 2006 Best Paper Award (Auckland, New Zealand, December 2006)
GECCO 2007 Competition 2 First Prize (London, UK, July 2007)
ISIS 2007 Recognition Award (Sockcho, Korea, September 2007)
JSPS PRIZE from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (December 2007)
GEFS 2008 Best Paper Finalist (Witten-Bommerholz, Germany, March 2008)
FUZZ-IEEE 2009 Best Paper Award(Jeju, Korea, August 2009)
IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems 2008 Outstanding Associate Editor(August 2009)
Mathware & Soft Computing (2001 - )
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part B (2002 - )
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (2004 - )
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (2005 - )
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (2005 - )
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computations (2007 - )
International Journal of Metaheuristics(2007 - )
Soft Computing Journal (2007 - )
International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (2003 - )
Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (2004 - )
Evolutionary Intelligence (2007 - )
The Open Electrical and Electronic Engineering Journal (2007 - )
International Journal on Advances in Fuzzy Systems (2007 - )
International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Soft Data Paradigms (2007 - )
International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics (2007 - Present)
Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2003 - 2006)
Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee Vice-Chair, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2007)
Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee Chair, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2008)
Award Committee Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2008)
Nomination Committee Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2008)
Technical Activities Committee Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2008)
Genetic Fuzzy Systems TF Member (2004 - 2006)
Genetic Fuzzy Systems TF Vice-Chair (2007 - Present)
Future Direction in Fuzzy Sets and Systems TF Member (2005 - Present)
1997 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks (Area Chair)
1998 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Area Chair)
2003 Fuzzy System Symposium (Program Chair)
2005 International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (Organized Sessions Co-Chair)
2006 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Technical Co-Chair)
2007 International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (Program Co-Chair)
2009 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Area Chair)
2009 International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress (Area Chair)
2009 International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (Program Chair)
2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (Program Chair)
