Shigeki Sugano, Dr.

Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
School of Science and Engineering,
Waseda University

Shigeki Sugano received the B.S., M.S., and Dr. of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering in 1981, 1983, and 1989, respectively, from Waseda University. From 1987 to 1991, he was a Research Associate in Waseda University. Since 1991, he has been a Faculty Member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Waseda University, where he is currently a Professor. From 1993 to 1994, he was a Visiting Scholar in the Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University. Since 2001, he has been a Director of the Waseda WABOT-HOUSE laboratory. He is a member of the Humanoid Robotics Institute of Waseda University.
His research interests include human-symbiotic anthropomorphic robot design, dexterous and safety manipulator, and human-robot communication. He received the Technical Innovation Award from the Robotics Society Japan for the development of Waseda Piano-Playing Robot: WABOT-2 in 1991. He received the JSME Medal for Outstanding Paper from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2000. He received JSME Fellow Award in 2006. He received IEEE Fellow Award in 2007.
He serves as the Secretary of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society (RAS) and the Co-Chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Humanoid Robotics. He had served as the IEEE RAS Conference Board, Meetings Chair from 1997 to 2005. He will appointed as the Associate Vice-President of the IEEE RAS Conference Board from 2008.
He has served as the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Advanced Robotics since 2007. He serves as the Head of the System Integration Division of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) in 2006 and 2007. Since 2001, he has been the President of Japan Association for Automation Advancement.
He served as the General Chair of the 2003 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM2003). He served as a General Co-Chairs of the 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2006). He will serve as a Program Co-Chairs of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2009) and will serve as the General Co-Chair of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2012). He will serve as the General Chair of the 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2013) in Tokyo.