Genya Ishigami is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Keio University, Japan. He has been a visiting associate professor at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency since 2017. His research interests are in the areas of mobility analysis, vehicle-terrain interaction mechanics, perception, navigation and control, for application to field robotics such as planetary exploration robots, unmanned ground vehicles, and construction machines. He is a chapter author of the Springer Handbook of Robotics and the International Handbook of Space Technology. He currently serves as an associate editor on IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and also as an editor on Journal of Terramechanics.
