Yoshiyuki YamashitaYoshiyuki Yamashita is a professor and a chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) in Tokyo. His main areas of expertise include process monitoring and control, as well as artificial inteligence and smart manufacturing. He received his BS, MS and PhD degrees in chemical engineering all from Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan) and subsequently became an assistant professor and associate professor at Tohoku University before joining TUAT in 2007. Dr. Yamashita chairs the Industry-University Research Committee on Process Systems Engineering, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, since 2016. He is the recepient of the Young Investigator Award of the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan in 1993, and Outstanding Paper Award of the Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan in 2000, 2008, 2019 and 2020. Read More Read Less