Dr. Hisao Shiizuka is now a Professor Emeritus of Kogakuin University. His research interests are Affective Science and Engineering, Affective Design, Affective Innovation, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and so on. He was a Professor of Kansei Engineering, Information Design and Soft Computing at Faculty of Informatics, Kogakuin University since 2006, Tokyo Japan, after having contributed for 11 years as a Professor of Artificial Intelligence System, Linear System Theory and Electric Circuits, to the Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering at Kogakuin University since 1995, Tokyo Japan.

He was a visiting researcher at The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 1993. He is engaged in the circuit theory, the graph theory, the Petri net, and the application of the system simulation and the fuzzy theory and the researches on a soft computing and Kansei engineering, etc. Currently, his research interests are Kansei Engineering, Soft Computing, Information Design and Artificial Intelligence.

He was a director of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory in 1995-1997, and was a director of Japan Society of Kansei Engineering in 1999-2001. He was the President of Japan Society of Kansei Engineering, since from 2007 to 2013. He holds a lot of the chair of the academic society successively. Recently, he served as the co-chair of KEER2010 held in Paris in March, and is leading to the success.

Now he is the chair of Affective Innovation Society, and also the Society of Affective Science and Engineering (ISASE). He has published more than 500 reviewed papers including English journals, and also he published 17 books.

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