Prof. Hitoshi Tsunashima

Prof. Dr. Hitoshi Tsunashima is a professor and the deputy director of the Centre for Railway Research, Nihon University. He completed his master course in aeronautical engineering at the University of Osaka Prefecture in 1983. He joined Kobe Steel Ltd. in 1983, where he carried out his research and development of Automated People Mover. He obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Tokyo in 1995. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, in 1996. His major research activities are condition monitoring of railway systems and application of multiple model approaches for vehicle state estimation and control. His awards include the following: 1992 SAE Vincent Bendix Automotive Electronics Engineering Award, 2007 Best Paper Award of 15th Symposium on Transportation and Logistics, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Best Presentation Award of 2006 Symposium on Automotive Engineering, Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Inc., 2009 Best Paper Award of Japan Railway Engineers Association.