Hamid Reza Karimi is a Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy where his research interests are in the areas of control systems and mechatronics. He serves as Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board Member of several international journals, and on various committees relevant to his research area. Professor Karimi has won a number of international awards, including the Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in 2016 and 2017, JSPS Research Award, the Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship Award and the August-Wilhelm-Scheer Award.