Kazuhiro Kosuge is a Professor in the Department of Machine Intelligence and Systems Engineering at Tohoku University.
He was born in 1955 in Tsu, Mie, Japan.
He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in control engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1978, 1980, and 1988 respectively.
From 1980 through 1982, he was a Research Staff in the Production Engineering Department, DENSO Co., Ltd.
From 1982 through 1990, he was a Research Associate in the Department of Control Engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology.
From 1989 to 1999, he was a visiting scientist at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
From 1990 to 1995, He was an Associate Professor at Nagoya University.
From 1995, he has been at Tohoku University.
For more than 18 years, he has been doing research on various robot control problems. He is currently developing mobile robot helpers for cooperative work with humans. He has over 150 technical publications in the area of robotics and its applications to the real world.
He served as a member of the board of the trustees of the Robotics Society of Japan (1993-1994) and as a Chair of Technical Activity Board in the Robotics and Mechatronics Division of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (1995-1996).
He is a member of the board of trustees of the Society of Instrumentation and Control Engineers (1999-2000). He served several academic meetings, which include the 1995 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'95) as a Program Co-Chair, ICRA'95 in Nagoya as a Steering Committee Vice Co-Chair, and the IROS'98 as a Program Co-Chair.
He co-chairs a technical committee on Human-Robot Interface and Coordination, IEEE Robotics and Automatiton Society.
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