Rate My Professor Yuki Nishimura

Yuki Nishimura is a Professor in the Faculty of Environmental, Life, Natural Science and Technology at Okayama University, leading the Systems Control Engineering section within the Robotics and Intelligent Systems Course of the Faculty of Engineering. He heads the Intelligent Machine Control Laboratory, focusing on advanced control theories responsive to societal needs. Nishimura obtained his Ph.D. in Information Science from Hokkaido University in March 2009, Master of Engineering in March 2005 from the Graduate School of Engineering, and Bachelor of Engineering in December 2002 from the Faculty of Engineering at the same university. His professional career includes positions as Associate Professor at Kagoshima University's Graduate School of Science and Engineering from April 2012 to March 2025 and Assistant Professor at Yamaguchi University's Graduate School of Science and Engineering from April 2009 to March 2012. He joined Okayama University in April 2025.

His primary research interests lie in stochastic control, nonlinear systems, safety-critical control using control barrier functions, stabilization by noise, Lyapunov stability for stochastic systems, rough paths, nonholonomic systems, and their applications to robotics, personal mobilities such as electric wheelchairs, ultrasonic motors, and marine vessels. Nishimura has produced over 70 research outputs, including seminal papers such as "Control Barrier Functions for Stochastic Systems and Safety-Critical Control Designs" (IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2024, with Kenta Hoshino), "Stabilization by Noise for Nonlinear Systems with Quantitative Stability Performances" (IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2025, with Kenta Hoshino), "Safe Control for Discrete-time Stochastic Systems with Flexible Safe Bounds using Quadratic Control Barrier Functions" (IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2025, with Sotaro Fushimi and Kenta Hoshino), "Local Controllability of Single-Input Nonlinear Systems Based on Deterministic Wiener Processes" (IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2020, with Daisuke Tsubakino), and "Stochastic Lyapunov functions without differentiability at supposed equilibria" (Automatica, 2018). He co-authored the textbook "理解しやすい制御工学" (Corona Publishing, 2025) and co-edited special issues on recent advances in nonlinear robot control technology (Advanced Robotics, 2024). Additionally, he has principal investigator roles in Japan Society for the Promotion of Science grants on human assist control, next-generation system control theory, and safe personal mobilities. His contributions enhance robust control designs for complex dynamical systems.