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Name: Takanori Shibata

Date of birth: Feb. 10th, 1967

Nationality: Japan

Sex: Male

·  1967 Born in Toyama Prefecture.

·  1989 Graduated from the electro-mechanical engineering course at the Engineering Dept. of Nagoya University

·  1992 Completed the final part of a doctoral course at the graduate school of Nagoya University. Completed the electro-mechanical engineering course and obtained a doctor's degree in engineering
Prof. Toshio Fukuda and Prof. Kazuhiro Kosuge were his thesis advisors

·  1992 Worked as research associate for the mechano-informatics and systems engineering course at the Engineering Dept. of Nagoya University

·  1993 Worked as research scientist at the Bio-Robotics Division, Robotics Dept., Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Agency of Industrial Science & Technology, Ministry of International Trade & Industry

·  1994-1995 Worked as technical advisor for Komatsu Co. Ltd.

·  1995-97 Concurrently worked as researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (leader of the project for artificial emotional creatures)

·  1996, Aug. Worked as visiting researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Zurich.

·  1997- Concurrently served as cooperative research scientist at the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo

·  1997- Concurrently served as technical advisor for OMRON Co. Ltd.

·  1998, May-Aug. Worked as visiting researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

·  1998 Served as senior research scientist at the Bio-Robotics Division, Robotics Dept., Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Agency of Industrial Science & Technology, Ministry of International Trade & Industry

·  1999-2000 Concurrently served as lecturer at Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo

·  1999- Concurrently served as technical advisor for Sankyo Aluminum Industry

He was the author of several books and guest editor for some journals. He was the Program Co-Chair of the IEEE/SOFT/RSJ Int'l Workshop on Biologically Inspired Evolutionary Systems in 1995. He was the program committee member of many conferences. His research interest includes neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, artificial life, pet robot for human-machine interaction, and intelligent control of robots.