Kazuhiro Saitou is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received BEng degree from University of Tokyo, and MS and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), all in Mechanical Engineering. His research interest includes algorithmic and computational design synthesis and design for manufacture and assembly, with applications in mechanical, industrial, and biomedical systems. He has served as an Associate Editor for ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE), ASME Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD), and IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), and is currently serving as an Associate Editor for JCISE (2ns time) and a Senior Editor for T-ASE. He was a past Chair of the ASME Design Automation Technical Committee (DAC) and the ASME Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Technical Committee (DFMLC), and the Editor-In-Chief for Conference Editorial Board of IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering. He is Fellow of ASME and IEEE.