Yasuhiko Dote received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Japan's
Muroran Institute of Technology and a master and doctoral degree from the
University of Missouri in 1963, 1972, and 1974, respectively, after which he
was employed by the Yaskawa Electric Manufacturing Company in Japan.
He served as Visiting Scholar in Engineering at the Masschusetts Institute of
Technology, Muroran Institute of Technology, Oxford University and Helsinki
University of Technology. In 1983, he was Visiting Professor and Consultant
at the United Nations Water and Power Research Station in Puna, India. He
was in addition Chairman of the Modern Control Theory Application Survey
Committee in Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan for three years and
Chairman of the Soft Computing Application to Industry Survey Committee. An
Associate Editor at Large of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial
Electronics, he was General Chairman of the IEEE International Workshop on
Neuro Fuzzy Control in 1993, and was greatly involved in the International
Workshop on Soft Computing in Industry in 1996 and 1999. He was International Co-Chair of the International Workshop on Soft Computing in
Engineering Design and Manufacturing on the Internet for two editions, in
1998 and 1999. He worked to establish the World Internet Federation of Soft
Computing with his research colleagues under the advice of Dr. L. A. Zadeh.
He was a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications published by the Imperial
College Press. Dr. Dote has published over 60 technical papers on drive
systems and five books on motion control. His research interest included in
the field of intelligent control methods (soft computing) applied to motor
drive and motion control systems. He was a member of the IEE, Japan and
IEEE. Professor Dote passed away on March 04, 2006
