Kaoru Hirota was born in Japan on January 6, 1950. He received the B.E., M.E., and Dr. E. degrees in electronics from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1974, 1976, and 1979, respectively. From 1979 to 1982 he was with the Sagami Institute of Technology, Fujisawa, Japan. From 1982 to 1995 he was with the College of Engineering, Hosei University, Tokyo. Since 1995, he has been with the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Tech- nology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan. He is now a department head professor of Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science. His research interests include fuzzy systems, intelligent robot, image understanding, expert systems, hardware implementation and multimedia intelligent communication. Dr. Hirota is a member of IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association (Vice President 1991-1993), Treasurer 1997-2001), IEEE ( Associate Editors of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (1993-1995) and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (1996-present)) and SOFT (Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems (Vice President, 1995-1997)), and he is a Senior Associ- ate Editor of Int. J. of Information Sciences Applications, editor in chief of Int. J. of Advanced Computational Intelligence.
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