Shun-ichi Azuma
Assistant Professor,
Department of Systems Science, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University

(address) Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
(tel/fax) +81-774-38-3945
(e-mail) Initial of Given Name + Family Name + "@" + "i.kyoto-u.ac.jp"

Biographical Sketch
Shun-ichi Azuma was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1976. He received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Hiroshima University, Higashi Hiroshima, Japan, in 1999, and the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in control engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 2001 and 2004, respectively. He was a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at Tokyo Institute of Technology and a visiting scholar of Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, USA, from 2004 to 2005. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems Science, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan.

Research Interests
(1) Super-resolution control (from 2006)
(2) Analysis and control of hybrid systems (from 2002)

Selected Publications
[1] S. Azuma and T. Sugie: Synthesis of Optimal Dynamic Quantizers for Discrete-Valued Input Control, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 53, No. 9, pp. 2064--2075 (2008)
[2] S. Azuma and T. Sugie: Optimal Dynamic Quantizers for Discrete-Valued Input Control, Automatica, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 396--406 (2008)
[3] S. Azuma, E. Yanagisawa, and J. Imura: Controllability Analysis of Biosystems Based on Piecewise Affine Systems Approach, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control & IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, Joint Special Issue on Systems Biology, pp. 139--152 (2008)
[4] S. Azuma and J. Imura: Polynomial-Time Probabilistic Controllability Analysis of Discrete-Time Piecewise Affine Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 52, No. 11, pp. 2029--2046 (2007)
[5] M. Egerstedt, S. Azuma, and Y. Wardi: Optimal Timing Control of Switched Linear Systems Based on Partial Information， Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications, Vol. 65, No. 9, pp. 1736--1750 (2006)
[6] S. Azuma and J. Imura: Synthesis of Optimal Controllers for Piecewise Affine Systems with Sampled-Data Switching, Automatica, Vol. 42, No. 5, pp. 697--710 (2006)