Chinthaka Premachandra P.hD

Professor @ Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

 (Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters & 

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems)

About me

プレーマチャンドラ チンタカ

スリランカ出身の研究者。2000年日本政府国費留学生として来日、高専、大学、大学院と進学し、2011年名古屋大学大学院にて博士（工学）を取得。東京理科大学工学部電気工学科助教を経て、2016年より芝浦工業大学工学部電子工学科・大学院理工学研究科に所属（教授）。

AI・映像・音声処理・ロボティクス・UAVを専門としており、現在は、情報通信やロボットの技術を高齢者、障害者や被災者等の要支援者へのサポートに応用する研究に従事している。2022 年IEEE Sensors Letters Best Paper Award等の多くの受賞。研究活動についてはこちら → Research (研究活動)   研究室ウェブ


また、教育活動にも力を入れており、通常の講義や学生指導に加えて、学生の国際力強化を目標とした「グローバル課題解決型学習（gPBL）ワークショップ」を国内外において実施している。本活動についてはこちら→ Global Educational Activities (国際教育活動) 

所属学会：米国電気電子学会(IEEE), 電子情報通信学会(IEICE), 計測自動制御学会(SICE),  日本知能情報ファジイ学会(SOFT), 日本ロボット学会(RSJ)

Chinthaka Premachandra (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Sri Lanka. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Mie University, Tsu, Japan, in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in 2011. From 2012 to 2015, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan. From 2016 to 2017, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, where he was an Associate Professor, from 2018 to 2022. In 2022, he was promoted to a Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, where he is currently the Manager of the Image Processing and Robotic Laboratory. His research interests include AI, UAV, image processing, audio processing, intelligent transport systems (ITS), and mobile robotics. 

He is a member of IEEE, IEICE, Japan; SICE, Japan; RSJ, Japan; and SOFT, Japan. He received the IEEE SENSORS LETTERS Best Paper Award from the IEEE Sensors Council in 2022 and the IEEE Japan Medal from the IEEE Tokyo Section in 2022. He also received the FIT Best Paper Award and the FIT Young Researchers Award from IEICE and IPSJ, Japan, in 2009 and 2010, respectively. He has served as a steering committee member and an editor for many international conferences and journals. He is the Founding Chair of the International Conference on Image Processing and Robotics (ICIPRoB), which is technically co-sponsored by IEEE. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (R-AL) and IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems.

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Featured:

We are excited to announce that we received the 2022 IEEE Sensors Letters Best Paper Award! 

IEEE Sensors Letters学術雑誌に掲載された我々の論文が2022 IEEE Sensors Letters論文賞を受賞しました。

Career History / 職歴

Education History  (After High School) /学歴 （高校卒業後）

Research Grant Acquistions (Latest) / 外部資金獲得(近年)

Award History / 受賞歴