Prof. Takamichi Nakamoto received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1982, 1984, and 1991, respectively. He worked with Hitachi, Tokyo, in the area of VLSI design automation from 1984 to 1987. In 1987, he joined the Tokyo Institute of Technology as a Research Associate. In 1993, he became an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. From 1996 to 1997, he was a Visiting Scientist with Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Richland, WA, USA. He is currently a Professor at the Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology. His current research topics are human interfaces, olfactory display, odor sensing systems, Kansei informatics, sensor information processing, and LSI design and its application to embedded systems.