AKIRA OYAMA received D. Eng. degree in aerospace engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan in 2000. He worked for NASA Glenn Research Center as an NRC Research Associate under supervision of Dr. Meng-Sing Liou from 2000 to 2003. He joined Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in 2003, where he is currently associate professor. He has published 55 reviewed journal articles, 196 international conference papers. He has received many awards that include Fluids Engineering Frontier Certificate of Merit, Computational Mechanics Achievement Award, and JSME design and system division Achievement Award. He is also a specially-appointed member of Science Council of Japan.