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Education

Ph.D, Dynamics and Control, December, 1993
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Dissertation: "A Unified Matrix Inequality Approach to Linear Control Design"

M.S., Electrical and Electronic Engineering, March, 1990
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Thesis: "An Application of the Extended Kalman Filter to the Field Oriented Control of an Induction Motor"

B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, March, 1987
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Thesis: "On the Design of Windmill Simulator for Electrical Power Generation"

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Employment/Experience

University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 7/2009-present

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 8/2002-5/2009
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 10/2002-8/2004
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 5/2000-10/2002

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Associate Professor, Department of Control Systems Engineering 4/1997-5/2000
Lecturer, Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science 5/1996-3/1997
Research Associate, Department of Systems Science 3/1995-4/1996

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Post-doctoral Research Associate, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics 1/1994-2/1995

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Professional/Academic Affiliations
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Member, Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE)
Member, Sigma Gamma Tau
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 10/1999-12/2003
Associate Editor, Systems and Control Letters, 10/1998-present
Associate Editor, IFAC Automatica, 3/2004-2/2007
Subject Editor, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 1/2007-12/2008
Editorial Board Member, Journal of SICE, 1997
O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award Committee Member, American Automatic Control Council 2003, 2005
Regional Program Chair, Society of Instrument and Control Engineers Annual Conference, 2008
Program Committee Member, 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, 2005
Program Committee Member, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2004
Program Committee Member, IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, 2004
Program Committee Member, International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control, 2004
Publicity Chair, Operating Committee, IEEE Conference on Control Applications, 2004
Secretary, Organizing Committee, SICE Annual Conference, 1998
Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Conference on Control Applications, 2001
Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 1999

Honors/Awards
· Fellow, IEEE, 2009
· Rudolf Kalman Best Paper Award, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division, 2007
· George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2006
· NSF Career Award, National Science Foundation, Electrical and Computer Systems, 2003
· Pioneer Prize, Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, 2002
· Outstanding Reviewer Automatica, International Federation of Automatic Control, 2001
· Outstanding Reviewer Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2000
· Outstanding Research Paper Award,Tejima Foundation for Engineering Education, Japan, 2000
· Who's Who in the World, Millennium Edition, Marquis Who's Who, 2000
· Outstanding Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1999
· Best Paper in Session, Session: LMI-based Algorithms for Fixed-order Control Design, American Control Conference, 1997
· Best Paper in Session, Session: Linear Matrix Inequalities in Control Theory - I, American Control Conference, 1994
· Best Paper in Session, Session: Robust Control for Uncertain Systems, American Control Conference, 1994
· Best Paper in Session, Session: H-infinity with Reduced Order Controller Models, American Control Conference, 1993

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