Yoshihiro Kanno is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Informatics at University of Tokyo. The author of many journal articles in computational mechanics and optimization, Dr. Kanno is the recipient of the Maeda Prize in Engineering (2005) for the distinguished dissertation in civil and architectural engineering. He is a member of International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Architectural Institute of Japan, and the Operations Research Society of Japan.