Akira Oyama

Akira Oyama is an associate professor at Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the University of Tokyo in Japan. Previously, he worked for NASA Glenn research center in the U.S. from 2000 to 2003. His research interests include computational fluid dynamics and many/multi-objective design optimization in space engineering. He is the leader of "design innovation with multiobjective design exploration," one of the research topics of Japanese national supercomputer project "HPCI Strategic Programs for Innovative Research Field 4: Design Innovation" since 2010. He has published 265 conference papers and 33 refereed journal articles.

Koji Shimoyama

Koji Shimoyama is an associate professor in the Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, Japan. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2006. Previously, he was a research assistant at JAXA, a research fellow at Tohoku University, a visiting scholar at Stanford University, United States, and an invited Professor at Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France. His research interests are multi-objective design exploration for engineering design, robust design optimization, and uncertainty quantification. He has performed collaborations with various industries in Japan regarding the application of EC and surrogate models for real-world product design and development.

Hemant Kumar Singh

Dr. Hemant Kumar Singh completed his Ph.D. from University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia in 2011 and B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur in 2007. Since 2013, he has worked with UNSW Australia as a Lecturer (2013-2017) and Senior Lecturer (2017-) in the School of Engineering and Information Technology. He also worked with GE Aviation at John F. Welch Technology Centre as a Lead Engineer during 2011-13. His research interests include development of evolutionary computation methods with a focus on engineering design optimization problems. He has over 50 refereed publications this area. He is the recipient of Australia Bicentennial Fellowship 2016, WCSMO Early Career Researcher Fellowship 2015 and The Australian Society for Defence Engineering Prize 2011 among others.

Kazuhisa Chiba

Kazuhisa Chiba is an associate professor in the graduate school of informatics and engineering, the University of Electro-Communications, Japan. Previously, he was a researcher at JAXA, a researcher at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and an associate professor at Hokkaido University of Science. His research interests are aerospace vehicles design via design informatics and multi/many-objective optimization.

Pramudita Satria Palar

Pramudita Satria Palar is a lecturer at Faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia. Previously, he was a research fellow at Tohoku University, Japan, from 2016-2018. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2015. During his doctoral study, he was also a visiting researcher at Engineering Design Center of University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and wrote several collaborative papers with the Center. His research interests include aerodynamic design optimization, surrogate-assisted optimization, and uncertainty quantification. He has published several journal and conference papers on the development and application of evolutionary computations and surrogate models in the field of aerospace and biomedical engineering.