Biography:

Hiroshi Yamakawa received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D., degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1970, 1972, and 1977 respectively. He became an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 1978. Then he became a Professor of the same department since 1983. He has been visiting researchers at the Stanford University in 1982 and the University of Arizona in 1983. He is now the Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering of Waseda University.

His major fields are optimum designs of mechanical and structural systems and application of optimization techniques including emerging methods and neural networks to various types of engineering problems. Especially he has been strongly nterested in dynamic problems and related optimum design problems. He is one of the pioneers in the optimum designs of dynamic problems and multidisciplinary optimizations in Japan and published a lot of papers. His research activities have been done mainly in JSME, ASME, AIAA and ISSMO (International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization). His typical works are optimum designs on the transient and nonlinear dynamic problems and the simultaneous optimizations of structural and control systems. He has been an executive committee member of the ISSMO for 11 years since 1999 and has held various posts of other societies. He became a general chair of the WCSMO-9 (the 9th World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, the official congress of the ISSMO) to be held in Shizuoka, Japan next June.

He has been a Visiting Professor and a Coordinator of Mechatronics and Robotics Department of E-JUST since February 2010.

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