Masayuki Fujita

Award Received:

IEEE CSS Distinguished Member Award

Date Awarded:

2021

University of Tokyo

Japan

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Masayuki Fujita

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Biography

Masayuki Fujita is a Professor at The University of Tokyo and a Visiting Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is also the Vice President of SICE in 2020. He was the Research Supervisor for Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST) during 2012-2019. He received the Dr. of Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from Waseda University, Tokyo, in 1987. Prior to his appointment at The University of Tokyo, he held professor/faculty appointments at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanazawa University and Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. His research interests include passivity-based control in robotics and robust control. He is the coauthor of the book "Passivity-Based Control and Estimation in Networked Robotics" (Springer, 2015). He was the CSS Vice President Conference Activities and a member of CSS Board of Governors. He served as the General Chair of the 2010 IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control. He was also the Director of SICE, the Head of SICE Technical Division on Control, the Chair of SICE Technical Committee on Control Theory. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Automatica, Asian Journal of Control, and an Editor for the SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration. He is a recipient of the 2008 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award, was a Plenary Lecturer of 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in 2015, and was an IEEE Control System Society Distinguished Lecturer during 2017-2019. He also received the 2010 SICE Education Award and the Outstanding Paper Awards from the SICE and ISCIE. He is a Fellow of IEEE and SICE.

Affiliation(s)

University of Tokyo

Japan