Hisashi Kobayashi is the Sherman Fairchild University Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, where he was previously Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He also spent 15 years at the IBM Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, and was the Founding Director of the IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory. He is an IEEE Life Fellow, an IEICE Fellow, was elected to the Engineering Academy of Japan (1992) and received the 2005 Eduard Rhein Technology Award.