Genya Ishigami received his M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Tohoku University, Japan, in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He is currently a postdoctoral associate in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research interests are in the areas of mobility analysis, including vehicle-terrain interaction mechanics, design, planning, and control, and for the application to planetary exploration rovers, rescue robots, and field robots.