Harumi Watanabe

Prof. Dr. Harumi Watanabe received Doctor of Engineering from School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. She is currently a full professor of Tokai University. Also, She was a visiting professor of Hasso Plattner Institut, Germany(2020). Her research interests are mainly in the areas of IoT, cyber-physical, and embedded system developments methods and their education. She is a chair of the Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems (SIG-EMB), Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) (2016-2019). She has organized and managed several robot contests since 2004. Her students have participated in many robot contests and have received awards every year. She was the chair of the board of NHK robot contest, Tokai region (2006). NHK robot contest is broadcasting in NHK and is the most major contest related to robot developments. In inter-high school championships on electronics manufacturing Japan, she was the chair of the board of the award of Ministers of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2007), and the chair of the board of the award of Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Japan (2018). She has organized the Asia Pacific Conference on Robot IoT System Development and Platform (APRIS) (2018-). This conference organizes a robot contest for providing education of IoT system development.