Haruo Kobayashi received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in information physics from the University of Tokyo in 1980 and 1982, respectively, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1989, and the Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering from Waseda University in 1995. He joined Yokogawa Electric Corp., Tokyo, Japan, in 1982, and was engaged in research and development related to measuring instruments and mini-supercomputers. In 1997, he joined Gunma University as an Associate Professor and was promoted to a Full Professor in the Division of Electronics and Informatics. Currently, he is Professor Emeritus there. His research interests include mixed-signal integrated circuit design and testing, and signal processing algorithms. He has published more than 160 journal papers and 450 international conference papers. Also, he has supervised 20 Ph.D. students and 160 M.S. students. He received the Yokoyama Award in Science and Technology in 2003. He is a Fellow of IEICE and a Senior Member of IEEE and IEEJ.