Yutaka Hori received the B.S degree in engineering, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in information science and technology from the University of Tokyo in 2008, 2010 and 2013, respectively. He held a postdoctoral appointment at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 2013 to 2016. In 2016, he joined Keio University, where he is currently an associate professor. He has been serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications (T-MBMC) and IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS), and as a member of the Conference Editorial Board of IEEE Control Systems Society. His research interests lie in feedback control theory, mathematical optimization and their applications to synthetic biomolecular systems.