Tomizuka awarded Hideo Hanafusa Outstanding Investigator Award

 

Professor Masayoshi Tomizuka received the Hideo Hanafusa Outstanding Investigator Award at the 2002 Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation held July 14-19, 2002, Hiroshima, Japan.

Qualifications for the award are described below:

One individual will be selected biennially from those who have made significant contribution(s) in the field of flexible automation. This award is open to all investigators working or having worked in the areas related to flexible automation. While we expect the awardee to be an active participant of the Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation, this award is based not only on papers presented at the symposium but on contributions made elsewhere. Contributions may be technical or scientific publications, theses, patents, inventions, or combinations of the above in the field of automation.

The Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation has been held every other year since it was initiated in 1986. The outstanding investigator award was introduced in the previous symposium in Ann Arbor in 2000. The first recipient was Dr. Hideo Hanafusa, Emeritus Professor of Kyoto University, a truly senior distinguished leader and scholar in the field. The award was named after him starting this year.