Prof. Dr. Yoshiyuki Shimoda is currently a Professor at the Division of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University (Osaka, Japan). He is also affiliated with the Urban Energy System Laboratory, which is one of the few laboratories in Japan that investigates on energy demand. He received his Dr. Eng. degree from the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University. He worked at the Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Osaka University and the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University. He wrote Basics of Urban Energy System (Gakugei Shuppan, 2014). His current study themes are energy demand modeling and forecasting in the residential and commercial sector, energy management of university campus, optimization of heat source system in district heating and cooling systems, and building and planning of low-carbon communities.