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.
Research Interests
My research lies at the intersection of feedback control theory, optimization, and synthetic biology. In particular, our work focuses on streamlining the process of biocircuit synthesis from a systems and control engineering perspective. To this end, we combine tools from feedback control theory and mathematical optimization to develop model identification, analysis, and design methodologies with a strong system-theoretic foundation. Our research also extends to the development of system-oriented experimental platforms, including integrated computational and microfluidic devices, which enable the generation of theoretically meaningful data to complement and refine model predictions.
