Biography: Kenji Fujimoto received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Engineering and Ph.D. degree in Informatics from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1994, 1996 and 2001, respectively. He is currently a professor of Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan. From 1997 to 2004 he was a research associate of Graduate School of Engineering and Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan. From 2004 to 2012 he was an associate professor of Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan. From 1999 to 2000 he was a research fellow of Department of Electrical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He has held visiting research positions at the Australian National University, Australia and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, and RIKEN, Japan. He received The IFAC Congress Young Author Prize in IFAC World Congress 2005 and SICE Control Division Pioneer Award in 2007. He served as associate editors of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board, and SICE Journal of Measurement, Control, and System Integration. His research interests include nonlinear control and stochastic systems theory.