Yoshito Ohta

Biography

Yoshito Ohta received a Doctor of Engineering Degree in Electronic Engineering in 1986 from Osaka University, Japan. In 1983, he joined the Department of Electronic Engineering, Osaka University as a Research Associate. He became a Lecturer in 1991 and a Professor in 1999 at the Department of Computer-Controlled Mechanical Systems, Osaka University. In 2006, he joined the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Kyoto University, where he is currently a Professor. From 1986 to 1988, he was a Visiting Scientist at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. His research interest is in the area of networked control and system modeling. Dr. Ohta was the Vice-Chair for Invited Sessions for the 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in 2003 and the General Chair for the 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in 2015. He has served as Associate Editors of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Automatica. He is now an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Control and IET Control Theory and Applications, an Editor of the International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems, and the Editor-in-Chief of SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration.