Kaoru HIROTA was born in Japan on January 6, 1950. He received the B.E., M.E., and Dr. E. degrees in electronics from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1974, 1976, and 1979, respectively.

From 1979 to 1982 he was with the Sagami Institute of Technology, Fujisawa, Japan. From 1982 to 1995 he was with the College of Engineering, Hosei University, Tokyo.

Since 1995, he has been with the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan. He has experienced (twice) a department head professor of Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science.

His research interests include fuzzy systems, intelligent robot, image understanding, expert systems, hardware implementation and multimedia intelligent communication. Dr. Hirota is a member of IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association (Vice President 1991-1993, Treasurer 1997-2001 secretary 2003-2005, Fellow awarded in 2003)), IEEE (Associate Editors of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 1993-1995 and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 1996-2000, IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer) and SOFT (Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems (Vice President 1995-1997, President 2001-2003)), and he is an editor in chief of Int. J. of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics. A Banki Donat Medal, Henri Coanda Medal, Grigore MOISIL Award, SOFT best paper prize in 2002, and honorary professorship at de La Salle University were awarded to Dr. Hirota.

He also organized many international conferences/symposiums as a general chair or a program chair such as FUZZ-IEEE'95, InTech2002, and SCIS2002 (more than 10 in total).He has been publishing more than 150 journal papers and more than 350 conference papers in the field of computational intelligence.