Dr. Takahiro Kawaguchi received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, in 2011, 2013, and 2017, respectively. From 2013 to 2015, he was with the Toshiba Research and Development Center. From 2017 to 2019, he was a Researcher in the Department of Systems and Control Engineering, School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo. From 2019 to 2020, he was a specially appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems and Control Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Division of Electronics and Informatics, School of Science and Technology, Gunma University, Gunma, Japan. His research interests include system identification theory and the application of machine learning techniques. He is a member of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers and the Institute of System, Control, and Information Engineers.
Dr. Seiji Hashimoto received his M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from Utsunomiya University, Japan, in 1996 and 1999, respectively. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Oyama National College of Technology. Since 2002, he has been a Research Associate in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Gunma University, where he is currently a Professor in the Program of Intelligence and Control. He has consulted for companies in control and energy applications and has been a Visiting Professor in China. His research interests include system identification, motion control, AI-based control and diagnosis, and energy regeneration and its application to industrial fields. He is a member of IEEJ and SICE.
