Dr. Yoshihide Sekimoto directs the Human-Centered Urban Informatics Laboratory, established in April 2013 in the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) at the University of Tokyo. He is currently the Vice Director of the Center for Spatial Information Science (CSIS) at the University of Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from The University of Tokyo in 2002. He had previously worked at the National Institute for Land, Infrastructure and Management from 2002-2007 and the Center for Spatial Information Science at the University of Tokyo from 2007-2013.