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Hitoshi Furuta

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Dr. Hitoshi Furuta is a Professor in the Department of Informatics at Kansai University, Osaka, Japan. In 1980 e received his doctorate in Engineering from Kyoto University, Japan. Before joining Kansai University in 1993, he worked for eighteen years in the Department of Civil Engineering at Kyoto University. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University, a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

His main areas of expertise are structural reliability, structural optimization, life-cycle cost analysis and design of bridge structures, and applications of soft computing including artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, neural network, chaos theory, and genetic algorithm. 

Hitoshi Furuta was the vice president of IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association) and the chairman of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Technical Committee 7.5. Currently, he is the chair of the Task Committee on Load Specification in the Japan Society of Civil Engineers, chair of the Committee of Asset management in Japan Construction Consulting Association, and the chair of the committee on Data Exchange Format for Highway Construction in Japan Highway Corporation. He is the author or co-author of over 200 refereed publications, including books, book chapters, journal articles, and papers in conference proceedings. Furuta is also the co-editor of two books published by ASCE and Balkema and editorial board member of several international journals. Additionally, he has chaired and organized several international structural engineering conferences.

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