Biography

The main research has been conducted in our laboratory at the University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Tokyo, Japan, in collaboration with Prof. Hua O. Wang and his laboratory at Boston University, Boston, USA.

(Photo: Boston, MA, Spring, 2013)

(Photo:Taiki Multi-Purpose Aerospace Park, Hokkaido, Summer, 2017)

Kazuo Tanaka

IEEE Fellow, IFSA Fellow

Professor

Department of Mechanical and Intelligent Systems Engineering

The University of Electro-Communications

1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan

Professor Kazuo Tanaka is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Intelligent Systems Engineering at the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Systems Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1990. He was a Visiting Scientist in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992 and 1993.

From his professional societies, he has received several prestigious awards including the IFAC World Congress Best Poster Paper Prize in 1999, the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award in 2000, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award in 2021, to name a few. He has been included each year in recent years on Stanford University’s list of the world’s top 2% of scientists.

His research interests include fuzzy systems control, nonlinear systems control and their applications to unmanned aerial vehicles. He published many papers in these areas, as well as 17 books, including: Fuzzy Control Systems Design and Analysis: A Linear Matrix Inequality Approach (Wiley-Interscience, 2001). According to Google Scholar, his publications have received over 33,717 citations, and he has an h-index of 60 and an i10-index of 173. He is an IEEE Fellow and an IFSA Fellow.