He received a Best Paper Award from GECCO 2004, HIS-NCEI 2006, FUZZ-IEEE 2009, WAC 2010, SCIS & ISIS 2010, FUZZ-IEEE 2011, ACIIDS 2015 and GECCO 2017. He also received a 2007 JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Prize. He was the IEEE CIS Vice-President for Technical Activities (2010-2013) and an IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer (2015-2017). Currently, he is the President of the Japan EC Society (2016-2018), the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE CI Magazine (2014-2019) and Journal of Japan EC Society (2014-2018), an IEEE CIS AdCom member (2014-2019). He is also an Associate Editor of IEEE TEVC (2007-2018), IEEE Access (2013-2018) and IEEE TCyb (2013-2018). He is an IEEE Fellow.