Tomonari Furukawa is a Professor and Zinn Faculty Scholar at University of Virginia. He received a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Waseda University in 1990, an M.Eng. in Mechatronic Engineering from University of Sydney in 1993, and a Ph.D in Quantum Engineering and Systems Science from University of Tokyo in 1996. He worked at University of Tokyo, University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, and Virginia Tech as a faculty member before joining University of Virginia. His research work focuses on inverse analysis and optimization methods in robotics and experimental/computational mechanics, where he currently has his particular interests in Bayesian estimation and control of autonomous systems, multiphysics modeling, simulation and measurement, and stochastic material characterization and structural health monitoring. He has published over 350 technical papers and has won various career and paper awards, including the Young Investigator Award from International Association for Computational Mechanics. He has also led teams in several renowned international competitions, including Virginia Tech’s Team VALOR in the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2015 and Team VICTOR in MBZIRC in 2017 and 2020.