Biography

Masako Kishida received the B.S. and M.S.E. degrees in Aerospace Engineering and the M.S. degree in Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics, all from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2004 and 2006, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2010. From 2010 to 2016, she held positions in the United States, Japan, New Zealand, and Germany. Since 2016, she has been an associate professor at the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. Her research interests include networked control systems, optimization, and uncertainty analysis. Prof. Kishida is a recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in 2015, Okawa Research Grant in 2017, Telecom System Technology Award in 2019, and Young Scientists’ Prize for the Commendation of Science and Technology by MEXT, Japan in 2020, and is currently a JST PREST Researcher. She is a senior member of IEEE.