Shinji  Hara  received  the  B.S.,  M.S.,  and  Ph.D.  in  engineering  from  the  Tokyo  Institute  of  Technology,  Japan,  in  1974,  1976,  and  1981,  respectively.  In  1984,  he  joined  the  Tokyo  Institute  of  Technology as an Associate Professor and served as a Full Professor for ten years. From 2002 to 2017 he was a Full Professor in the Department of Information Physics and Computing at the University of Tokyo. He  is  Professor  Emeritus  of  the  Tokyo  Institute  of  Technology  and  the  University  of  Tokyo.  His  current  research  interests  are  in  robust  control,  decentralized  cooperative  control  for  large-scale  networked  dynamical  systems,  system  biology,  and  glocal  control.  Dr.  Hara  has  received  many  awards  in  control  including the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Control System Society in 2006. He  was  the  President  of  SICE  (Society  of  Instrument  and  Control  Engineers,  Japan)  in  2009,  a  Vice  President of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2009 to 2010, and an IFAC Council member from 2011 to 2017. He is a Fellow of IFAC, IEEE, and SICE.