Ichiro Hagiwara is a distinguished professor at Meiji University’s Research and Intellectual Property Strategy Organization, the Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences, and the Meiji Institute of Autonomous Driving in Japan. He is an emeritus professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Tokyo. Hagiwara’s research interests pertain to origami engineering and intelligent self-driving vehicles.