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Fumitoshi Matsuno was born in Nagoya, Japan on 26 July 1957. Dr. Matsuno received the PhD (Dr. Eng.) degree from Osaka University in1986. In 1986 he joined the Department of Control Engineering, Osaka University. He became a Lecturer in 1991 and an Associate Professor in 1992, in the Department of Systems Engineering, Kobe University. In 1996 he joined the Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science,Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology as an Associate Professor. In 2003, he became a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo. Sice 2009, he has been a Professor in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering and Science, Kyoto University. He holds also a post of the director of NPO International Rescue System
Institute (IRS). From 2005 he is a Vice-President of IRS.

His current research interests lie in robotics, control of distributed parameter system and nonlinear system, rescue support system in fire and disaster, and geographic information system. He has published 100 journal papers, 183 international conference paper
which passed peer reviews, 46 survey articles and 9 books.

• Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2002 to present.
• Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1995 to 2001.
• Associate Professor,  University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA, 1993-1997.
• Assistant Professor, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1990-1993.

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 1999 to present.
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B: Bybernetics, 2003 to present.
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part C: Applications and reviews, 2001-2005.
• Member of Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Neural Systems, 2006-2008.
• Guest Co-editor, special issues in European Journal of Operational Research (vol. 93, no. 2, 1996), International Journal of Neural Systems (vol. 17, no. 6, 2007), and Neurocomputing (vol. 71, nos. 16-18., 2008).
• Various positions at numerous international conferences such as ISNN2004, ISNN2005, IROS2005, ISNN2006, WCCI2006, ICONIP2006, and WCCI2008.
• Past President of the Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA).