Keynote Speakers

Prof. Hisato KOBAYASHI (IEEE Life Fellow), Emeritus Professor in Hosei University, Japan

Biography: Hisato Kobayashi got B.S., M.S., and D.E. degrees from Waseda University in 1974,1976 and 1979, respectively. He joined Hosei University in 1984. He is now a Professor Emeritus Hosei University. From 2001 to 2002, he was the founding president of Hosei University Research Institute, California. He was the Founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Design from 2007 to 2008. He was a board member of the Robotics Society Japan (RSJ)　from 1994 to 1996.
He was a board member of The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) from 2002 to 2004 and the vice president from 2018 to 2020. He was editor-in-chief of Advanced Robotics, Journal of RSJ, from 1997 to 2002.
From 2003 to 2005, he was the chairman of the automatic control committee, Science Council Japan, and a member of Science Council Japan from 2006 to 2014. From 2010 to 2013, he was a Program Officer at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Since 2008, he has been the chairman of the Standing Steering Committee IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication.
He is an IEEE Life Fellow