Kaoru Yamamoto's website

Contact: 

    744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
    Room W2-651

   (Phone) +81-92-802-3669

    Email: yamamoto.kaoru.481[at]m.kyushu-u.ac.jp

  Research Group Website
  Personal Webpage at Kyushu University

About:  

•  Associate Professor, Kyushu University, Japan, 2018 Aug. -

•  Postdoctoral researcher, Lund University, Sweden, 2017 Jan. - 2018 Jul.

•  Postdoctoral associate, University of Minnesota, USA, 2015 Nov. - 2016 Dec.

•  Ph.D. in Control Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK, 2011 Oct. - 2016 Jan. 

•  Master's degree in Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan, 2011

•  Bachelor's degree in Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan, 2009

Research Interests: 

• Control of interconnected dynamical systems, distributed control, multi-agent systems

• Sampled-data systems (especially lifting, optimising intersample behaviour, and controlling signals beyond the Nyquist frequency)

• Vibration control, anti-vibration systems

• Mechanical networks, passivity-based control

• Spectral analysis, spectral interpolation

General audience talks and articles:

• IEEE Control Systems Society Interview (People in Control)

• Gave a public talk on scalability in swarm robotics: 九州大学Brown Bag Seminar「ロボット群の「スケーラブル」な制御」（山本薫） [in Japanese]

• I was interviewed as a SENTAN-Q trainee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xaDS_rB0G4 (2024 October)

• Gave a seminar at Maizuru Industrial College of Technology for elementary school & junior high school students (2021 Dec. 5 [in Japanese] https://jrdoctor.maizuru-ct.ac.jp/archives/1014)

• Gave a talk on YouTube about my experience abroad (2020 July 12 [in Japanese])

• イギリス，アメリカ，そしてスウェーデンへ, システム／制御／情報, 2018, 62 巻, 11 号, p. 466-471

Tutorial talks (2023~):

• I gave a talk about advanced air mobility at "Fukuoka Air Mobility Lecture Series Part 3".

• I gave a tutorial talk on advanced air mobility for Waseda University Extension Center.

• I gave a tutorial talk on "Ensemble Control of Mobile Robots" at one of the pre-conference workshops "Systems Theory of Ensembles: Fundamentals, Learning, and Application" for the 62nd IEEE CDC.

• I had the privilege to give a talk at the Rantzerfest for Prof. Anders Rantzer's 60th birthday!

Service:

Conference organisations (selected)

• Student Activities Chair for 2027 Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)

• Invited & Tutorial Session Co-Chair for 2026 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)

• Organizing Committee for SIAM Conference on Control and its Applications (CT25) 

• Program Committee for the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (2022 - 2025) 

• International Program Committee for the 4th IFAC Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems (MICNON 2024)

• Assistant Secretary for The 22nd World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC 2023)

Editorial work

• Conference Editorial Board, IEEE Control Systems Society (2020 - present)

• Associate Editor of Journal of Systems & Control Engineering (2020 - present)

• Associate Editor of International Journal of Systems Science (2021 - present)

Technical committees

• Co-Chair of IEEE RAS TC on Robot Control (2024 - present)

• Member of IFAC TC 2.1 - Control Design (2020 - present)

• Member of IFAC TC 1.5 - Networked Systems (2024 - present)

Other

• JSTさきがけ[未来数理科学] 未来を予測し制御するための数理を活用した新しい科学の探索 領域アドバイザー（2025 - present）
  JST PRESTO [Mathematical Sciences for the Future]Exploration of New Science Using Mathematics to Predict and Control the Future Area Advisor (2025 - present)

• Member of the selection committee of Funai Overseas Scholarship, the Funai Foundation of Information Technology (2021 - present)

• Delegate of SICE (The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers) (2021 - 2024)

• Reviewer of scientific journals, including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Automatica.