Dr. Richard Zurawski is with ISA Group, San Francisco, CA, involved in
providing solutions to 1000 Fortune companies. Dr. Zurawski is a
co-founder of the Institute for Societal Automation, Santa Clara, a
research and consulting organization.
He has over 30 years of academic
and industrial experience, including a regular professorial appointment at the
Institute of Industrial Sciences, University of Tokyo, and full-time
R&D advisor with Kawasaki Electric, Tokyo. He has provided consulting
services to Kawasaki Electric, Ricoh, and Toshiba Corporations, Japan.
He has participated in a number of Japanese Intelligent Manufacturing
Systems programs.
Dr. Zurawski’s involvement in R&D and
consulting projects and activities in the past few years included
network-based solutions for factory floor control, network-based
demand side management, Java technology, SEMI implementations, wireless
applications, IC design and verification, EDA, and embedded systems
integration.
Dr. Zurawski is the series editor for
The Industrial Information Technology (book) Series, CRC Press/Taylor
& Francis; and Editor in Chief of the
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
He has served as Editor at Large of the IEEE Transactions on
Industrial Informatics (2005-2006); has served as Associate Editor for IEEE
Transactions on Industrial Electronics (1994 – 2005);
Real-Time Systems; The International Journal of Time-Critical
Computing Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1997-2003), The
International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems, World
Scientific Publishing Company (1996-1997).
He was a Guest Editor of three special
sections in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics on
factory automation and factory communication systems. He was also a
Guest Editor of a special issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE
dedicated to
Industrial Communication Systems. Dr. Zurawski was invited by IEEE
Spectrum to contribute an article on Java technology to “Technology
1999: Analysis and Forecast Issue".
He is a Senior Member, IES AdCom; he
served as a Vice President of the Industrial Electronics Society
(1994-1997), Chairman of the IES Factory Automation Council
(1994-1997), and
currently Chairman of the IES Technical Committee on Factory
Automation. He was
also on a steering committee of the ASME/IEEE Journal of
Microelectromechanical Systems. In 1996, he received the Anthony J.
Hornfeck Service Award from the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.
He has served as a general (co-)chair
for 13 IEEE conferences and workshops; technical program co-chair for
4 IEEE conferences; track (co-)chair for 12 IEEE conferences; member
of program committees of over 40 IEEE, IFAC, and others, conferences
and workshops. Dr. Zurawski has established two major technical
events: IEEE Workshop on Factory Communication Systems, IEEE
International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory
Automation.
Dr Zurawski was Editor of four major handbooks: The Industrial Information
Technology Handbook, CRC Press, Florida, 2004; The Industrial
Communication Technology Handbook, CRC Press, Florida, 2005;
The Embedded Systems Handbook, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2005; and Integration Technologies for Industrial Automated Systems, CRC
Press/Taylor, 2006.
A
monograph Networking Systems on Chip, Morgan Kaufman Series Systems on
Silicon, San Francisco,
is scheduled for publication in 2008; Networked Embedded Systems
Handbook, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, will be published also in
2008.
Dr Zurawski received an M.Eng, in
Informatics & Automation, University of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow;
obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science, LaTrobe University, Melbourne,
Australia.
