Junya Sato received B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering from Iwate University, Morioka, Japan, in 2012, 2014, and 2017, respectively. Since 2017, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan. His research interests include applications of evolutionary computations to computer vision. Dr. Sato is a member of IEEE, the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, and the Japan Society for Precision Engineering.