FUMIO HARASHIMA SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Professor Fumio Harashima, Dr-Eng
President, Tokyo Metropolitan University
1-1　Minami-Osawa Hachioji-Shi, Tokyo
192-0397, JAPAN

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Fumio Harashima was born in Tokyo in 1940. He has received B.S., and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees all in Electrical Engineering from University of Tokyo in 1962, 1964 and 1967, respectively. He was employed as Associate Professor at Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo in 1967, and had been Professor from 1980 through 1998. He was Director of the Institute from 1992 to 1995.He was President of Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology since April, 1998 through March, 2002.. He was also Visiting Professor at KAIST(Korea) for 2002-2003.
Dr. Harashima served as President of Tokyo Denki University from June, 2004 through June, 2008. He is currently President of Tokyo Metropolitan University.
Professor Harashima is Professor Emeritus of University of Tokyo since April, 2000.

His research interests are in power electronics, mechatronics and robotics. He is a co-author of four books and has published over 1,000 technical papers in these areas. He has been active in various academic societies such as Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE), Robotics Society of Japan and IEEE. He has served as President of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society in 1986-1987, and 1990 IEEE Secretary. He was also a member of IEEE N&A Committee in 1991-1992, and IEEE Fellow Committee in 1991-1993. He served as Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics in 1995. He was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics in 2000-2003. He served as President of IEE of Japan in the year 2001-2002.
Dr. Harashima was a member of Science Council of Japan in 2005-2008.

Dr. Harashima has received a number of awards including 1978 SICE Best Paper Award, 1983 IEE of Japan Best Paper Award, 1984 IEEE/IES Anthony J. Hornfeck Award, 1988 IEEE/IES Eugene Mittelmann Award and IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He is a Fellow in IEEE, SICE. and RSJ.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

RESEARCH FIELD

1967- Present: Power Electronics and Electrical Drives

1970- Present: Motion Control and Mechatronics

1985- Present: Intelligent Mechatronics


AWARDS (selected)

1978 SICE Best Paper Award
1983 Best Paper Award, IEE of Japan
1984 IEEE Anthony J. Hornfeck Award
1988 IEEE Fellow
1988 IEEE Eugene Mittelman Outstanding Achievement Award
1990 SICE Fellow
1993 IEE of Japan Industry Application Society Outstanding Contribution Award 　
2000 IEEE Third Millennium Medal
2003 Outstanding Achievement Award, IEE of Japan
2005 Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques(Republic of France)
2005 Fellow, Robotics Society of Japan
2009 IEEE Life Fellow
2009 The ACA Wook Hyun Kwon Education Award 2009


HARASHIMA AWARDS

１．”Fumio Harashima Mechatronics Award”、Institute of Control and Automation Engineers　（Korea)　2003－

２．”Fumio Harashima Best Paper Award"、IEEE　International Confrence on Emerging Technology and Factory Automation、2005－

３．”IROS　Fumio Harashima Award”、IEEE/RSJ　International Conference on Intelligent Robot and Systems、2006－


　
MAJOR ACTIVITIES IN ACADEMIC SOCIETIES

1984-85 Member, Board of Directors, IEE of Japan
1985-86 IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Vice President　　
1986-1987 IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, President
1990 IEEE Board of Directors, Member
1990 IEEE Executive Committee, Member
1990 IEEE Secretary
1990-1991Member, Board of Directors, Robotics Society of Japan 1992 President, Industry Applications Society of IEE of Japan 1995-96 Founding Editor-in-chief, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
1999-2002 IEEE Award Board, Member
2000 President-Elect, IEE of Japan
2001 -Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
2001-2002 President, IEE of Japan
2005- Member, Science Council of Japan


INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

Professor Harashima has initiated and organized a number of well-known international conferences. Some of them are listed below.

IPEC: International Power Electronics Conference
1983 Program Chair
1990 Organizing Chair
1995 Honorary Organizing Chair

IEEE/IECON: 1984 General chair

IEEE/IROS: Intelligent Robot and Systems
1988-1999: Honorary Organizing Chair

IEEE/IJCNN: International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
1994 Honorary Organizing Chair

IEEE/ICRA: International Conference on Robotics and Automation
1995 Organizing Chair

IEEE/SMC: International Conference on System, Man and Cybernetics
1999 Organizing Chair

IEEE/ITS: International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
1999 Organizing Chair

IEEE/IECON' 2000: Honorary Organizing Chair

　

EDUCATION ACTIVITIES

MS and PHD students Dr. Harashima have supervised as a thesis advisor at University of Tokyo

Courses that Dr. harashima have taught and the number of students who took the courses
(At Graduate level of University of Tokyo, 1969-1998)

- Control and Systems Theory : about 50 students/year
- Electric Power Conversion Engineering: 20
- Advanced Electrical Machine Engineering : 30
- Advanced Robotics: 50

　

Invited Lectures at other Universities

Domestic

Tokushima Univ., Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Ehime Univ.,
Kyushu Inst. Tech., Hiroshima Univ., Okayama Univ.
Nagoya Univ., Muroran Inst. Tech, Kagawa Univ.
Ooita Univ.. Seikei Univ. etc.

Dr. Harashima established a new faculty of engineering at Kagawa Univ. as the Founder in1998.

　

Universities outside Japan

INDUSTRY COOPERATIVE RESAERCH

Hitachi, Toshiba, Mitsubishi Electric, Fuji Electric, Toyo Electric, Dengensha Co.,Toyota Corp., Tohoku Electric Power Co., Sumitomo Heavy Machine Corp., Yazaki Corp. and many others

　

ENDOWED CHAIR

Toshiba Corp. provided me an Endowed Chair Position with a budget of 100 million yen in 1993-1996. I invited well-known professors to this position such as Professor M.Tomizuka, Professor R.C.Luo, V.Utkin and John Moor. They gave a great contribution to the research activities of Harashima Lab.

RECENT MAJOR RESEARCH FUND

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