Katsushi Ikeuchi

About

　　Katsushi Ikeuchi received the BE degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kyoto University in 1973 and the PhD degree in Information Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1978. After working at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology for three years, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Japanese government for five years, and Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University for 10 years, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo for 19 years, he joined Microsoft as a Principal Researcher in 2015. During this tenure of CMU and UTokyo, he supervised more than 50 PhD students.
　　His research interest spans computer vision, robotics, and computer graphics. In these research fields, he has received several best paper awards, including the David Marr Prize in computational vision and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society K. S. Fu memorial best transaction paper.
　　His community service includes: general chair of IROS95, ITSC99, IV01, ICCV05, ACCV07, ICCV17; program chair of CVPR96, ICCV03, ICRA09, ICPR12, ICCV15; EIC of IJCV (2000-2017), EIC of IJ ITS (2012-2014), associate editor of IEEE Trans. RA, IEEE Trans. PAMI; and a distinguished lecturer of IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2000-2002, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society in 2004-2006 and IEEE Computer Society in 2008-2010.
　　Through these research and society service, he was awarded a (life) fellow from IEEE, IEICE, IPSJ and RSJ.
He received the Distinguished Researcher Award from IEEE-PAMI, the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon from Japanese Emperor, the Okawa prize from Okawa foundation as well as a couple of research achievement awards from Japanese professional societies.