Prof. Kazuto Yamauchi obtained his M.Sc. (1983) and Ph.D. (1991) from Osaka University, Japan. He became a faculty member of Department of Precision Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University as an Assistant Professor in 1984, Associate Professor in 1992, and Professor in 2003. He is the Specially Appointed Professor of the University of Osaka and RIKEN Center for Science and Technology from 2024. His main fields of experience are ultraprecision machining, surface metrology, surface topography measurement, and X-ray optics. He has been honored the Commendation for Science and Technology (Research Category) by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in 2016, the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2023, and the Future Creation Invention Encouragement Award, National Invention Awards, Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation in 2023. He was the Vice President (2021-2022) and President (2023-2025) of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE).

Prof. Marcel Heertjes received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. After being with the Philips Center for Industrial Technology from 2000-2005, he joined ASML in 2006 where he currently is appointed Sr. principal mechatronics architect. He was a recipient of the IEEE Control Systems Technology Award 2015 for variable gain control and its applications to wafer scanners and the 2023 Automatica Paper Prize on projection-based integrators for improved motion control, among others. In 2019, he was appointed (part-time) full Professor of Industrial Nonlinear Control for High-Precision Systems at Eindhoven University of Technology. He acts as an Associate Editor for IFAC Mechatronics since 2016. He is co-author of the 2026 Springer book: Hybrid Integrator-Gain Systems.

Dr. Makoto Abe is the fellow of Mitutoyo Corporation, one of global manufacturers of precision measuring instruments for length and dimension. Makoto specializes in research and development of coordinate metrology, with emphasis on the numerical error compensation and the associated uncertainty evaluation. After his powerful contribution to Mitutoyo R&D for decades, he moved to National Metrology Institute of Japan and serviced as a research group leader for Dimensional Standard Research Group and Length Standard Research Group for almost a decade. Makoto is active in ISO standardization as well within ISO/TC213/WG10, Coordinate measuring systems where ISO 10360-13 dedicated for Optical 3D scanner published in 2021 is his child. He is also one of the experts who have triggered recent revision of ISO-1. He was awarded another fellowship by Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE).