Hiroshi Takemura

Hiroshi Takemura (Member, IEEE) was born in Oita, Japan, in 1976. He received the B.S. degree in engineering from the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1999, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in information engineering from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan, in 2001 and 2003, respectively. From October 2003 to March 2004 and from January 2005 to May 2005, he was employed as a Lecturer (PT) at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology. From April 2004 to December 2004, he went to the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, as a Guest Lecturer in industrial applications of information and microsystems. In 2005, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Chiba, Japan, where he has been a Professor, since 2019. His research interests include robotics, medical device, biomechanics, gait analysis, and human modeling.