Yasuhiko Dote
Yasuhiko Dote received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran, Japan, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri,in 1963,1972, and 1974, respectively.
From 1963 to 1973 he had been employed by the Yaskawa Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Japan. In 1974 he was Visiting Engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,MA. He was Visiting Researcher at the University of Missouri, Columbia,MO. in 1979 and at the Engineering Science Department of Oxford University,UK, in 1980. In 1983 he was Visiting Professor and Consultant at the United Nations Water and Power Research Station, Puna, India. In 1989 he served as Visiting Professor at the Power Electronics Application Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. April 1, 1999 through March 31,2004 he has been assigned as a Docent (Soft Computing Methods in Industrial Applications) at Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. He was a visiting professor at Helsinki University of Technology,Finland Sept.1 through Dec.31, 2000.
At present, Dr. Dote is Professor of Computer Science and Systems Engineering at the Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran, Japan. He had remained Chairman of the Modern Control Theory Application Survey Committee in Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan for three years. He was Chairman of the Soft Computing Application to Industry Survey Committee. He was Associate Editor at Large of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He was General Chairman of the IEEE International Workshop on Neuro Fuzzy
Control, held on March 22-23, 1993 at Muroran, of the International Workshop on Soft Computing in Industry, Muroran,Japan, held on April 27-28,1996 and June 16-18,1999.He was International Co-Chair of the International Workshop on Soft Computing in Engineering Design and Manufacturing on the internet,21-30,June 1998 and September 21-30,1999. He is establishing the World Internet Federation of Soft Computing with his research colleagues under the advice of Dr.L.A.Zadeh. He is a member of Editorial Board of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, Imperial College Press. He is a guest editor of the Special Issue on Soft Computing-Industrial Innovations of the Proceeding of the IEEE,Vol.89, Issue 9,September,2001.Dr. Dote has published over 60 technical papers on drive systems and has five books on motion control on his credit. His research interest lies in the field of intelligent control methods(soft computing) applied to motor drive and motion control systems. He is a member of the IEE,Japan and IEEE.