Ko Yamamoto

Ko Yamamoto (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in mechano-informatics from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2009. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, in 2009–2012, a Visiting Researcher with Stanford University, Stanford, USA, in 2012, and an Assistant Professor with Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in 2012–2014. He moved to the University of Tokyo as an Assistant Professor in 2014, and was a Project Lecturer with the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2016–2017. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Mechano-informatics, University of Tokyo. His research interests include mechanical design, dynamics computation and motion control of humanoid robots and soft robots, biomechanical analysis based on human musculo-skeletal model, and modeling and control of swarm robots and pedestrian crowds. Prof. Yamamoto is a Member of the IEEE, JSME, and RSJ.