Professor Atsuo Kawamura received the B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1976, 1978, and 1981, respectively. In 1981 he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia as a Postdoctoral Fellow, and was an Assistant Professor there from 1983 through 1986. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Yokohama National University in 1986 as an associate professor, and became a professor in 1996. He was a dean of College of Engineering between 2013 and 2015. He has served to completion 31 Ph.D and 117 Master’s students. He holds 7 patents and has published more than 110 journal papers, 250 international conference papers, 500 domestic conference papers and 5 books.

His interests are mainly in power electronics, digital control, electric vehicles, robotics, and traction control.  He received the IEEE IAS Transaction Prize Paper Award in 1988, and the Prize Paper Award of IEE of Japan in 1996, and the IEEE Industrial Electronics Transactions best paper award in 2001 and 2002. He became a Fellow of the IEEE in 2002 with the citation, "For Contributions to Real-Time Digital Feedback Control of PWM Inverters.”

He was the conference chairperson of the IEEE/IAS and IEEJ/IAS joint Power Conversion Conference (PCC-Yokohama) in 1993. He was an associate editor of IEEE Power Electronics Transactions from1995 to 2000. He was the program chairman of the 2009 Robotics Society of Japan Annual Meeting, and also the general chairman of International Power Electronics Conference (IPEC2010). He served as president of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan/ Industry Application Society (IEEJ/IAS) from 2012-2013. Dr. Kawamura is a fellow of the IEE of Japan, and a member of Robotics Society of Japan.