ABSTRACT
Richard Zurawski is with ISA Group, San Francisco, California, involved in providing solutions to Fortune companies. He has over 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 the editor in chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He has served as editor at large for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (–); and as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (–); Real-Time Systems; The International Journal of Time-Critical Computing Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers (– ); and The International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems, World Scientific Publishing Company (–). Dr. Zurawski was a guest editor of three special issues in IEEETransactions on Industrial Electronics
on factory automation and factory communication systems. He was also a guest editor of the special issue on industrial communication systems in the Proceedings of the IEEE. He was invited by IEEE Spectrum to contribute an article on Java technology to “Technology : Analysis and Forecast” special issue. Dr. Zurawski served as a vice president of the Industrial Electronics Society (IES) (–), as
a chairman of the IES Factory Automation Council (–), and is currently the 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 , he received the Anthony J. Hornfeck Service Award from the IEEE IES. Dr. Zurawski has served as a general co-chair for IEEE conferences andworkshops, as a technical
program co-chair for IEEE conferences, as a track (co-)chair for IEEE conferences, and as a member of program committees for over IEEE, IFAC, and other conferences and workshops. He has established twomajor technical events: IEEEWorkshop on Factory Communication Systems and IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation. Dr. Zurawski was the editor of five major handbooks: The Industrial Information Technology
Handbook, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, ;The Industrial Communication Technology Handbook, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, ;The Embedded Systems Handbook, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, Florida, ; Integration Technologies for Industrial Automated Systems, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, Florida, ; and Networked Embedded Systems Handbook, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, Florida, .
