1,000 Talents Plan, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Director of Center for Micro-Nano Mechatronics and Professor of Department of Micro-Nano Systems Engineering at Nagoya University, Japan

President of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (1998-1999)

Director of the IEEE Division X, Systems and Control (2001-2002)

Editor-in-Chief of IEEE / ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2000-2002)

President of IEEE Nanotechnology Council (2002-2003, 2005)

President of SOFT (Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics) (2003-2005)

Elected Member of Science Council of Japan (2008- )

IEEE Fellow (1995)

SICE Fellow (1995)

JSME Fellow (2001)

RSJ Fellow (2004)

IEEE Eugene Mittelmann Award (1997)

IEEE Millennium Medal (2000)

IEEE Robotics and Automation Pioneer Award (2004)

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Service Award (2005)

Award from Ministry of Education and Science in Japan (2005)

IEEE Nanotechnology Council Distinguished service award (2007)

Best Googol Application paper awards from IEEE Trans. Automation Science and Engineering (2007)

Best papers awards from RSJ (2004) and SICE (2007)

Special Funai Award from JSME (2008)

2009 George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation (2009)