Toru Namerikawa received his B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, in 1991, 1993, and 1997, respectively. In 2009, he joined Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, where he is currently a Professor with the Department of System Design Engineering and a Director of the School of Integrated Design Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology.
He has held visiting positions at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1998, University of California, Santa Barbara in 2001, University of Stuttgart in 2008 and Lund University in 2010. He is serving as an associate editor for IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology and IET Control Theory and Applications, and a Co Editor-in-Chief of Mechatronics. His main research interests are distributed and cooperative control, game theory, and their application to cyber-physical systems including mobility, security, and power networks. He received the 2014 Pioneer Technology Award from SICE Control Division and the 2017 Outstanding Paper Award from SICE.