Masaaki Kumagai, an IEEE member, is the director of the
Robot Development Engineering Laboratory at Tohoku Gakuin University. He's a faculty member in the university's department of mechanical engineering and intelligent systems. Dr. Kumagai, born in Sendai, has a PhD in engineering from Tohoku University. From September 2009 to August 2010, he was a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. Follow him on Twitter at @kumarobo.