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IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles Senior
Associate Editors
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TIV.2016.2578658
Danil V. Prokhorov received the Diploma degree in robotics with honors from the St. Petersburg
State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (formerly LIAP), St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1992,
and the Ph.D. degree in EE from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA, in 1997.
He was with the St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian
Academy of Sciences. After the Ph.D. degree, he joined the staff of Ford Scientific Research
Laboratory, Dearborn, MI, USA. While at Ford, he was involved in application-driven studies of
intelligent technologies, developing new and improving existing machine learning/computational
intelligence algorithms and applying them to problems in system modeling, control, diagnostics
and optimization.
He has been serving as a Panel Expert for the National Science Foundation, an Associate
Editor of several IEEE Transactions and the Elsevier journal of Neural Networks. He has also
been a Reviewer and a member of Organizing and/or Program Committees of many international
journals and conferences. He has authored more than 100 scientific publications, as well as many
patents.
He has been involved in intelligent technologies research at Toyota Tech Center (TTC), Ann Arbor, MI, since joining TTC
in 2005, and in particular, all main areas of research on highly automated vehicles. Since 2011, he has been the Head of
Future Mobility Research Department at Toyota Research Institute North America (TRINA), an advanced research division
within TTC. One of Toyota vehicles featuring TRINA experimental technologies was revealed to the public at the CES 2013 in
Las Vegas, USA.
Sadayuki Tsugawa received the B.E., M.E., and Doctor of Engineering degrees in 1968, 1970,
and 1973, respectively, in instrumentation and control engineering all from the University of
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. In 1973, he joined Mechanical Engineering Laboratory under the Japanese
Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), where he started research on ITS and, in
particular, automated driving and driver-assistance systems. In 1970s, he was involved in two ITS
projects: a dynamic route guidance system named Comprehensive Automobile Traffic Control
System sponsored by MITI, and a vision-based intelligent vehicle. In 1980s, he conducted research
on autonomous navigation of the vision-based vehicle, and intervehicle communications and the
applications. In early 1990s, he worked for Super Smart Vehicle System Studies as MITI’s
ITS activities, one of the important results of which was intervehicle communications. In the
year 2000, he and his group gave a demonstration on autonomous cooperative driving with five
automated vehicles linked with the intervehicle communications based on 5.8 GHz DSRC. In
2003, he resigned from the laboratory (in 2001 the laboratory was reorganized to the National
Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)) and joined Meijo University as a Professor in the Department
of Information Engineering. In 2000s, he conducted projects on a driver-adaptive driver assistance system and an elderly-driver
assistance system. From 2008 to 2013, he served as the Project Leader of “Energy ITS Project” sponsored by the Japanese Ministry
of Economy, Trade and Industry and New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, which focused on energy
saving and CO
2
emission reduction for road transportation, and the main theme was an automated heavy truck platoon. In 2015,
he retired from the university. He is currently an Invited Researcher at AIST. He was a BOG member of the IEEE ITS Society
from 2008 to 2010. He received the Best Paper Prize by the Japanese Society of Instrument and Control Engineers in 1992, and
by the Minister of Science and Technology for the research on ITS and intelligent vehicles in 1999.
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