Prof. Shigeru Obayashi

Professor. Doctor of Engineering from University of Tokyo in 1987. Worked as a visiting scientist at NASA Ames Research Center from 1987, joined the faculty of engineering at Tohoku University as an associate professor in 1994. A professor at the Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, since 2003. Served as the Director of the Institute from 2014 to 2020. Current research interests include computational fluid dynamics, multidisciplinary design optimization, and data assimilation and their real-world applications. Member (2020--2026) of the Science Council of Japan, former President (2019) and Fellow of the Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics, former President (2018) and Fellow of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, former President (2015--2016) of the Japanese Society for Evolutionary Computation, Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Fellow of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers.