Yutaka Yamamoto [People in Control].

In this issue of IEEE Control Systems Magazine (CSM), we speak with Yutaka Yamamoto, who is the president of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) for 2013. He is professor at the Department of Applied Analysis and Complex Dynamical Systems, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. He has served as vice president (VP) for Publication Activities (20072008), VP for Technical Activities (20052006), and as a senior editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (20102011). He is the author of over 200 refereed papers and is the recipient of many awards, including the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (1996), the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, and Technology (Japan, 2007), and IEEE CSS Distinguished Member Award (2009). He is an IEEE Fellow. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]