Shin Aoi received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in geophysics from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1991, 1993, and 1996, respectively. He joined the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), Tsukuba, Japan, in 1996. Since 2010, he has been the Director-General of the NIED, and operates the Monitoring of Waves on Land and Seafloor (MOWLAS). His research interests include earthquake observation, strong motion seismology, numerical simulation, earthquake early warning, and tsunami warning. Dr. Aoi is the recipient of Prizes for Science and Technology as the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2019, the UIC Global Rail Research & Innovation Award from the Worldwide Railway Organisation in 2018, and the Technical Development Award from the Seismological Society of Japan, in 2018.