Susumu TACHI

http://tachilab.org/

Susumu Tachi received his B.E., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mathematical engineering and information physics from the University of Tokyo in 1968, 1970, and 1973, respectively.

He joined the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Tokyo in1973, and in 1975, he moved to the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, where he served as the Director of the Biorobotics Division. In 1989, he rejoined the University of Tokyo, and served as a Professor at the Department of Information Physics and Computing till March 2009. From April 2009, he moved to Keio University, where he currently serves as a Professor of Graduate School of Media Design. Prof. Tachi was conferred Professor Emeritus of The University of Tokyo in June 2009.

From 1979 to 1980, Dr. Tachi was a Japanese Government Award Senior Visiting Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.

Prof. Tachi is a founding director and a fellow of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ), the 46th President and a fellow of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), a fellow of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME), and is the founding President of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan (VRSJ).

From 1988, he has served as Chairman of the IMEKO (International Measurement Confederation) Technical Committee 17 on Measurement in Robotics, and organized several ISMCR (International Symposium on Measurement and Control in Robotics) conferences. He initiated and founded ICAT (International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence) in 1991 and IVRC (International-collegiate Virtual Reality Contest) in 1993. He is a member of IEEE VR Steering Committee and served as General Chair of IEEE VR 2001 and 2002.

Dr. Tachi has received a number of awards including IEEE EMBS Outstanding Paper Award (1983), IEEE VR Best Paper Awards (2001, 2004), ICAT Best Paper Awards (2000, 2004), VRSJ Best Paper Awards (1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004), TIME Magazine Coolest Inventions (2003), Laval Mayenne Awards (2003, 2005), Japan Minister of International Trade and Industry Prize (1988), IMEKO Distinguished Service Award (1997), and IEEE Virtual Realty Career Award (2007).