Presenter

Eiichi Yoshida is a Professor at Tokyo University of Science (TUS), at Department of Department of Medical and Robotic Engineering Design, Faculty of Advanced Engineering since 2022. He received M.E and Ph. D degrees in Precision Machinery Engineering from the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo in 1996. He then joined the former Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, later in 2001 reorganized as National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan. He served as Co-Director of AIST-CNRS JRL (Joint Robotics Laboratory) at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France, from 2004 to 2008, and at AIST, Tsukuba, Japan from 2009 to 2021. He was also Deputy Director of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center, and TICO-AIST Cooperative Research Laboratory for Advanced Logistics in AIST from 2020 to 2021 before joining TUS. He is IEEE Fellow, and a member of RSJ, SICE, and JSME. He received several awards including Best Paper Award in Advance Robotics Journal, and the honor of Chevalier l’Ordre National du Mérite from French Government. His research interests include robot task and motion planning, human modeling, humanoid robotics and advanced logistics technology.