Dr. Kazuo Tanie Biography
Kazuo Tanie was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa,
Japan. He received B.S., M.S. and Dr. Eng.
from Waseda University in 1969, 1971 and
1980, respectively. In 1971, soon after graduating
M.S., he entered Mechanical Engineering Laboratory,
AIST-MITI. He served there Director of Cybernetics
Division and Biorobotics Division at Robotics
Department, and also Director of Robotics
Department. Since April 1, 2001, when all
MITI's laboratories were reformed, he has
been the Director of Intelligent Systems
Institute, The National Institute of Advanced
Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
Also, he has been an adjunctive professor
of Cooperative Graduate School at University
of Tsukuba since 1992 and a visiting professor
at The Advanced Research Center of Science
and Technology at Waseda University since
1996. From August, 1981 to August, 1982,
he was a visiting scholar of University of
California at Los Angeles, and in September,
1995, a visiting professor at Scuola Superiore
S. Anna in Italy. He served as the General
Chair and Program Chair for several international
conferences. He is Japanese contact person
of International Advanced Robotics Program
(IARP) and President-Elect of IEEE Robotics
and Automation Society(RAS). He was a founding
chairman of Robotics and Mechatronics Division
in Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers(JSME)
in 1988 and 1989, and a vice president of
Robotics Society of Japan(RSJ) in 1999 and
2000. He is a Fellow of JSME, and a Senior
Member of IEEE where he is belonging to RAS,
Industrial Electronics Society and System,
Man & Cybernetics Society, RSJ, Japan
Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
and so on. He received Joseph Engerburger
Technical Award in 2001 and also several
best paper awards from Japanese academic
societies. His research interests include
compliant robotic arm control, multifinger
hand control with tactile sensors, virtual
reality and its application to telerobotic
systems, human friendly robotics and humanoid.
He has published more than 300 papers in
Japanese and international journals and international
conference proceedings.