Satoshi Tadokoro
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Tohoku University, Research Professor
Other / Past Affiliation(s):
- Kobe University
- International Rescue System Institute
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Bio:
SIGGRAPH Asia 2015
Satoshi Tadokoro was an associate professor of Kobe University in 1993-2005, and is a research professor of Tohoku University since 2005. He experienced two major earthquake disasters: Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995 and Great Eastern Japan Earthquake in 2011. He is a president of International Rescue System Institute since 2002 and IEEE RAS President-Elect in 2014-2015. He served as a project manager of MEXT DDT Project on rescue robotics in 2002-2007 having contribution of more than 100 professors nationwide, and of a NEDO project that developed a rescue robot Quince, which was used in nuclear reactor buildings of the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident as the first Japanese robot. He is a project manager of Japan Cabinet Office ImPACT Project at present.
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