VII International Academic Contributions

He is an editorial board member of International Journal of Innovative Computing, Informatics and Control (IJICIC), ICIC express letters, Official Journal of Scientiae Mathematicae Japonicae (JAMS), International Journal of Intelligent Decision Technologies (IJIDT), Journal of Economics and Management (JEM), and Official Journal of Japan Society of Kansei Engineering, Journal of Management Science & Statistical Decision (ISSN1814-9073). He is an advisory board member of Journal of Management Science and Statistical Decision and Journal of Centre for Artificial Inttelligence and Robotics (CAIRO), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He has contributed several international journals as a guest editor including Fuzzy Sets and Systems, International Journal of Approximate reasoning and so on. He has served as a chair, an advisory committee, an international program committee, and so on for various important international conferences. He was an editorial board member of International Journal of Systems and Control Engineering (JSCE) of Official Journal of Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Part I from 2003-present.

VIIIInternational Contributions to Education

Dr. Watada was a visiting professor at various universities and institutes over 15 countries including Purdue University, West Lafayette, University of Texas, Austin in USA, Tianjin University, Tsinhua University, P.R. CHINA, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, Malaysia University of Science and Technology, Penan, Malaysia University of Technology, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia University Saba, Kota Kinabaru in Malaysia, San Paulo University, Brazil, Research Institute of Thompson CRF, Paris, France, Polytechnic University of Bucharest in Romania, several universities at Taipei and so on.

Dr. Watada is contributing as an external examiner to Chinese University of Hong Kong for about 10 years, as an advisory board committee to Malaysia University of Technology and an assessment member of Research Grants Council of Hong Kong or about 10 years.

IX Academic Activities

He was the President of Bio-Medical Fuzzy Systems Association (2001-2003). He was the Vice President of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems for two years (1993-1995) and a board committee of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems, and also served as the principal editor for its journal, and was the president of Japan Chapter of International Fuzzy System Association for two years (1993-1995), he is right now an advisory board member and a head of Kyushu-chapter of Japan Society of Intelligent Informatics and Fuzzy Systems Since 2005. And he contributes several journals as an editorial board. He is a member of IFSA,Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems, etc.