Kazuhiko Kawamura is a Senior Advisor for robotics research at Pangea.
Professor Kawamura is an internationally known researcher in cognitive systems and humanoid robotics. He has published over 150 research papers, a book, and book chapters in the fields of intelligent systems, humanoid robotics, cognitive robotics, human-robot interaction, and computational intelligence. From 1990 to 2013, he was Director of the Center for Intelligent Systems at Vanderbilt University, where he built a humanoid robot named ISAC and directed research projects in cognitive robot architecture, sensory-motor association learning, working memory-based task learning, and cognitive control. He was a visiting professor at Kyoto University and Chuo University in the 1980s, and a visiting professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, UK, in 2004.
Dr. Kawamura is a Life Fellow of IEEE and Founding and Honorary Chair of the Technical Committee on Service Robots for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. He served as General Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) in 2000, the IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) in 2005, the International Workshop on Cognitive Robotics, Intelligence and Control (COGRIC) in 2006, and the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots in 2010. He was a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics (IJHR) and the International Journal of Assistive Robotics and Mechatronics (IJARM).