Banquet Speech

Dr. Tsuneo Kume

 

Tsuneo Kume received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Waseda University, Tokyo in 1960, and joined Yaskawa Electric Corporation, Kitakyushu, Japan, the same year. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees both in Electrical Engineering in 1968 and 1970, respectively from the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. 
After returning to Yaskawa Electric, he started working on variable frequency inverters.  He developed the first general-purpose transistor PWM inverter in 1974 and the first vector-controlled PWM inverter in 1979.  Since then, he has continued his R&D activities in power electronics both in Japan and the US.
He is an active member of IEEJ and Life Fellow of IEEE.