Dr Naohiko Kohtake is an associate professor and current director of Smart System Design Laboratory at Keio University, Japan where he is responsible for space system engineering and intelligent systems. He has worked in research and development on avionics systems for the H-IIA rocket at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, ubiquitous computing systems at Keio University, and on-board software at European Space Agency. He was a visiting researcher of user interfaces at Sony Computer Science Laboratories and an associated senior engineer at Digital Innovation Center in Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency working on software independent verification and validation for satellites and the international space station.