Prof. Dr. Takayuki Hibi graduated with a Ph.D. from the School of Science at Na-goya University in 1987. He then visited the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from August 1988 to July 1989. He worked at the School of Science of Hokkaido University from September 1990 to March 1995 and visited the University of Sydney from July 1993 to November 1993. In April 1995, he became a full professor at Osaka University and has remained there ever since. His research started with the study of algebraic combinatorics on convex polytopes and then turned to Gröbner bases, alge-braic statistics, and computational commutative algebra. He organized the JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency) research project entitled ``Harmony of Gröbner Bases and the Modern Industrial Society’’ from October 2008 to March 2014. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed original articles and jointly wrote the textbook “Monomial Ideals” (Graduate Texts in Mathematics 260, Springer).